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Sypris Solutions Inc. announced that it has completed the sale of its Test & Measurement business to Tektronix . Highlights • Sale of Sypris Test & Measurement Inc. completed for $39.0 M of cash on October 26, 2009. • Proceeds to be used by Sypris Solutions to support growth...

Raytheon Co. announced that it has completed its acquisition of BBN Technologies , a leader in research and development, and provider of critical solutions for national defense and security missions. The purchase price is approximately $350 M, subject to post-closing adjustments. The transaction will not materially impact Raytheon's sales...

RFaxis , a fabless semiconductor company focused on innovative, next-generation RF solutions for the wireless and connectivity markets, announced that it has selected IBM Microelectronics to manufacture its fully integrated, single-chip, single-die RF Front-end Integrated Circuits (RFeIC). The RFeICs will be manufactured using IBM Microelectronics' BiCMOS process technology, at...

ANADIGICS Inc. launched a new 4G power amplifier (PA) that delivers high output power, exceptional linearity and extremely high efficiency for mobile WiMAX applications in the 2.3 to 2.7 GHz spectrum. Developed for use in handsets, PC cards/dongles and embedded WiMAX modules, the AWT6264 enables high performance mobile devices...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance radio frequency systems and solutions, released the industry's first "green" gallium nitride (GaN) based CATV amplifier modules. The D10040200PL1 and D10040230PL1 are designed for use as power doubler amplifiers in current and next generation...

Mimix Broadband Inc. introduces a linear power amplifier (PA) with an integrated, temperature compensated, on-chip power detector, which is offered in an RoHS compliant 7x7 mm QFN-style package, making the device easy to install and handle in volume applications. This power amplifier, identified as XP1080-QU, covers 37 to 40...

WIN Semiconductors announced the availability of a new MMIC tool bar personality for ten Advanced Design System (ADS) process design kits (PDK) for its popular Enhancement/Depletion-Mode PHEMT and HBT process technologies. The new add-on WIN PDKs, developed for use with current and future releases of Agilent Technologies' ADS 2009,...

Rohde & Schwarz Inc. and Rohde & Schwarz Canada are collaborating with Moseley Broadcast and the Communications Research Centre Canada (CRC), with the aim of creating one of North America’s first single-frequency network (SFN) test beds for both ATSC fixed and mobile digital television (ATSC Mobile DTV). The research...

NEC Corp. has been selected as a supplier for Telefonica 's LTE pilot trial. The company was one of the six providers chosen for Telefonica's test projects which will be conducted in six different countries that the telecom operator serves. The project, coordinated globally and underpinned by the advantages...

Saudi Arabian operator Mobily , partially owned by UAE operator Etisalat , has awarded Cambridge Broadband Networks a significant contract for the provision of its VectaStar, point-to-multipoint, microwave backhaul platform. The operator is using VectaStar in the licensed 26 GHz spectrum band to backhaul its 3G HSPA network and...