Gary Lerude, Microwave Journal Technical Editor

With Qorvo completing the acquisition of Custom MMIC, Microwave Journal wanted to understand how Custom MMIC will merge into Qorvo. So we asked Roger Hall, general manager of Qorvo’s High Performance Solutions (HPS) business, and Paul Blount, the founder of Custom MMIC.

In an ironic twist, Cree has purchased Infineon’s RF power business for €345 million, a year after Infineon’s attempt to buy Cree’s Wolfspeed RF business was blocked by the U.S. government, citing national security concerns.

After years of talking about 5G at Mobile World Congress, it's here and happening faster than expected. Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri shared his perspective on the eve of the 2018 conference, including five predictions for the rest of the year.

Nokia will supply 5G infrastructure equipment to NTT DOCOMO, Japan's largest mobile operator, to help DOCOMO evolve its existing LTE network to 5G by 2020.

Peregrine Semiconductor, formed in 1990 and acquired by Murata in 2014, has a new name and logo — pSemi™ — and an expanded charter for semiconductor integration. In addition to its historic focus on RF switches and related components for mobile and infrastructure, pSemi’s product portfolio will encompass power management, connected sensors and optical transceivers.

IDT is offering a wireless sensor evaluation kit that uses Wi-Fi to transmit real-time humidity, temperature and flow data from IDT's sensors for IoT applications.