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Altum RF announces a successful ISO 9001:2015 surveillance audit of its quality management system.

Sivers Semiconductors recently made two announcements: Pelle Wijk will be appointed managing director of Sivers Wireless in Sweden, and Sivers Photonics has received a new optical sensing order from a current Fortune 100 customer.

RFIC start-up Otava has announced a wideband beamformer IC covering 24 to 40 GHz, which encompasses the 5G mmWave, satellite communications and military bands. To accelerate new designs using this IC, Avnet is launching a beamformer evaluation board and kit.

Altum RF announced a two-year contract with the European Space Agency (ESA), under the ARTES Advanced Technology program, to design and develop GaN Ka-Band high-power amplifiers for very small aperture terminals.

Adding to its capabilities in UWB technology for mobile, Qorvo® has acquired Paris-based 7Hugs Labs, a software provider for UWB applications, for $48.7 million. Qorvo sees UWB enabling new location and communication services based in the smartphone.

Qorvo® announced it is expanding its IoT portfolio with two RF front-end (RFFE) modules that support the NB-IoT and LTE-M cellular standards.