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As detailed in a new report from Mobile Experts, the mmWave market for RF front-end components will grow to more than $1 billion by 2024, driven by smartphones, hotspots and fixed customer premises equipment.

In a move to restore profitability, MACOM is terminating 250 staff — 20 percent of the workforce — and closing seven product development facilities, expected to save $50 million annually.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) and Soitec announced the two companies have signed multiple long-term supply agreements for 300 mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. The agreements assure GF will have sufficient high volume wafer supply to meet the demand for its RF SOI, fully-depleted SOI (FD-SOI) and silicon photonics process platforms.

Meet the three young women who received Custom MMIC's Women in Engineering scholarship and have now completed their first years at college.

pSemi announced the release of UltraCMOS® 13, the next-generation of its proprietary RFSOI process running on GlobalFoundries’ 300 mm wafer fab. UltraCMOS 13 was tailored to improve low noise amplifier (LNA) and power amplifier (PA) performance and enable improved performance from integrated front-end components.

ICONIC RF has announced two MMIC power amplifiers with high back-off efficiency, targeting 5G mmWave and satellite applications: a 5 W GaN on SiC covering 24 to 31 GHz and a 700 mW, 24 to 27 GHz GaAs Doherty amplifier.

Qorvo said the export ban on Huawei is expected to reduce this quarter's revenue by some $50 million. For the most recent fiscal year, which ended March 30, Huawei contributed 15 percent of Qorvo's total revenue, approximately $469 million.