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ABI Research forecasts markets for pulsed RF power devices up to 4 GHz will show continued moderate growth over the next five years and exceed $200 million by 2022.

NXP Semiconductors N.V. announced the industry’s highest power transistor for 915 MHz applications. The MRF13750H delivers 750 W continuous wave (CW), 50 percent higher than comparable products available on the market.

Custom MMIC announced an expanded collaboration with X-Microwave LLC, developers of a modular/drop-in simulation, prototyping and production system for solderless and reconfigurable RF/microwave circuits up to 67 GHz. The X-MWblock^TM system enables efficient and expedient microwave and mmWave circuit development and testing, using industry grade non-linear online simulation tools.

WIN Semiconductors has developed a GaAs PIN diode MMIC process for high frequency switch and limiter applications. The 3 µm i-layer PIN diodes have near constant junction capacitance through 50 GHz, low insertion loss and excellent isolation for high frequency switch applications.

After completing the acquisition of Linear Technology, Analog Devices announced the leadership team for the combined company. Greg Henderson, VP of ADI’s RF and microwave business, was promoted to senior VP responsible for the automotive, communications and aerospace and defense businesses of the combined company.

Analog Devices released a GaN power amplifier (PA) that provides 35 W with 20 dB power gain and up to 44 percent power-added efficiency (PAE) from 300 MHz to 6 GHz.

At IMS2017, Skyworks Solutions, Inc. expanded its small cell portfolio with the announcement of a high efficiency power amplifier (PA) supporting the unlicensed spectrum for license assisted access (LAA) and LTE unlicensed (LTE-U). LAA and LTE-U are capabilities enabled in LTE-Advanced that allow cellular systems to tap the 5 GHz Wi-Fi spectrum to increase data capacity.