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Texas Instruments Inc. (TI) announced the company’s strong endorsement of the ZigBee Alliance’s recent announcement to integrate Internet Protocol (IP) and open standards. The plan to incorporate global IT standards from the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will allow continued growth of smart grid applications beyond the smart meter...

WIN Semiconductors announced that is has opened FAB B in Taiwan. Co-located in the Hwaya Technology Park with FAB A, FAB B will offer cost-effective synergy in operations. FAB B capacity of 5K Wafer Per Month (WPM) in addition to the existing FAB A operating capacity of 7K WPM...

XIO Strategies Inc. , a supply chain management and communications consulting firm, announced that it has been awarded a subcontract by Northrop Grumman to provide active RFID consulting services to the US Department of Defense under their RFID III contract, a multiple award, indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract with a...

Exalt Communications , an innovator in microwave radio systems, announced that the Colorado State University CHILL (CSU-CHILL) National Weather Radar Facility has deployed the license-exempt Exalt EX-2.4i microwave radio system to reliably deliver real-time weather radar data from its remote location to researchers on the CSU campus. The system...

Pulse , a Technitrol company, a leader in electronic component and subassembly design and manufacturing, announces the first capacitive-feed antenna that can be enclosed in an all-metal mobile handset case. Pulse’s capacitive-feed antenna can be used in mobile phones that operate at 900, 1800, 1900 and 2100 MHz as...

ODIN , a leader in the physics of RFID solutions for healthcare, aerospace, financial services and government agencies, introduces the ODIN self-inventorying SMART Container® – a first in automated technology for the tracking of critical assets. The SMART Container goes beyond basic security and location tracking for a given...

Auriga Measurement Systems LLC and WIN Semiconductors announced their modeling collaboration for the release of WIN’s new Ku- and Ka-band GaAs PHEMT process. Auriga’s nonlinear Large Signal Model (LS6) will be offered and distributed by WIN to its PP-25 customers. The models were validated against load-pull measurements and accurately...

Thunderline-Z , a designer and manufacturer of RF, DC and Capacitive Feedthrus, as well as soldered and direct sealed hermetic packages, is pleased to announce a new product release, a mini surface-mount 50 ohm feedthru. Based on Thunderline’s successful initial SMT Bell Pin offering, this new product has been...

In January 2007 – around two-and-a-half years’ back – Engalco released the first industry and markets report concerning AESAs. That first report clearly showed that these types of radars already had great operational significance whilst at the same time providing substantial and growing markets for the associated transmit-receive modules...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received an $8 M order under its IDIQ contract with the US Army Communications Electronics Command (CECOM). Total orders received to date against this $216.0 M contract increased to $211.3 M. Under this order, Comtech will...