Here's a summary of last week's industry news:

Companies and Products

Alcatel-Lucent has claimed a new record for undersea fiber optic transmission: 10,000 km at 300G.

From the wireless infrastructure division, Alcatel-Lucent and China Mobile are field-testing a vRAN and NFV cellular network at Tisinghua University in Beijing.

Analog Devices announced two 2 to 50 GHz distributed power amplifiers in die form. One device provides 12.5 dBm at 1 dB compression and 14.5 dB gain, the other 17.5 dBm output and 11 dB gain.

One year after the acquisition, Greg Henderson, VP of the RF & Microwave business unit at Analog Devices, assesses the ADI-Hittite combination.

Freescale announced two new LDMOS power amplifiers targeting lower power industrial applications. The AFIC901N is a two-stage LDMOS PA that provides 1 W CW, 63 percent efficiency and 30 dB gain between 136 and 174 MHz. The single-stage AFT05MS003N provides 3 W of CW power, 67 percent efficiency and 17 dB gain over 136 to 941 MHz.

MACOM is selling their automotive segment to Autoliv for $100 million in cash, with an additional $30 million if the business achieves defined revenue targets through 2019. This business was largely a single program to Ford, providing GPS modules for their SYNC product. While this automotive business generated cash, it was no longer meeting the company's profitability model nor aligned with MACOM's strategy.

The Wall Street Journal reported that Tsinghua Unigroup, a Chinese state-owned chip maker, was making a $23 billion bid for Micron Technology, a U.S. DRAM supplier. Any deal would draw the attention of the U.S. government, with reports that Senator John McCain of Arizona is concerned. McCain chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee. However, Doug Young argues that such a deal would ultimately go through.

Nokia apparently plans to re-enter the cellphone business — in name only, though. They wouldn't actually build the phone.

Pasternack announced instrumentation grade waveguide directional couplers: 28 models spanning 18 to 110 GHz.

Resonant, trying to find a seat at the SAW-BAW filter bar, appointed Thomas Joseph to their board. Previously, Joseph was with RFMD, where he worked with all the major SAW and BAW manufacturers. His PhD dissertation was on the design, fabrication, testing and performance modeling of SAW resonators.

Markets and Technology

Everyone seems to be angling for credibility as a 5G player. To wit,

16 organizations have banded together to form the FANTASTIC-5G research project, chartered to define a new air interface below 6 GHz.

Ericsson and Softbank announced the two are collaborating on 5G trials in Tokyo.

Turning to broadband, Netflix added 3.3 million users in Q2, reaching 65 million. 65 percent, or 42 million, are in the U.S.

Google Fiber is joining the program to provide Internet access to low income residents on public housing.

Do you feel that Wi-Fi offered at hotels should be free? The New York Times reviews the back-and-forth trend within the hotel industry.

The exception to what you were taught in business school: higher market share does not always mean better profitability. Consider that Apple's share of the smartphone market is 20 percent of units shipped, yet Apple has captured 92 percent of the profits. Source: Canaccord Genuity.

After a nine year journey, NASA's New Horizons program successfully completed its rendezvous with Pluto. Even though the spacecraft has flown by, the data is still slowly streaming in — and will be for the next year. See the latest images.

Are you climbing Mt. Fuji this summer? You'll find free Wi-Fi at the top, so please send us a selfie.

If you're looking for a good book to read on that long flight to Japan, this industry saga is a page-turner: Losing the Signal: The Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry.