Industry News

RFMD Expands Broadband Transmission Product Portfolio

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance RF components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced the industry’s first 1.2 GHz broadband transmission products, enabling enhanced, bandwidth-driven services for CATV operators and their subscribers. The new products provide options for cable operators to upgrade...
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3G Power Amplifier Promises to Initiate Industry Shift to CMOS

MVPIntroduction to a power amplifier designed to initiate a shift in handset power amplifier technology from GaAs to CMOS
CMOS power amplifiers (PA) are prevalent in today's WiFi and Bluetooth markets, yet extensive industry-wide development efforts for CMOS PAs for 2G and 3G mobile handsets have so far failed to yield a product that met the performance of incumbent GaAs PAs. However, a new CMOS PA from Javelin...
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NEC Vendor for NTT DOCOMO's 1.5 GHz RRE

NEC Corp. has been selected as the development and manufacturing vendor for NTT DOCOMO Inc. 's 1.5 GHz remote radio equipment (RRE) for LTE base stations. The company’s RRE provide a compact and low electricity consumption solution by adopting a specially developed miniature low-loss dielectric filter and a high...
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New LYNX Waveguide-to-Coaxial Adaptors

The comprehensive LYNX 311 series of waveguide-to-coaxial adaptors is available from RF and microwave component specialist Link Microtek . The adaptors are aimed at engineers looking to source competitively priced, non-ITAR products for their microwave system designs. The waveguide-to-coaxial adaptors are available in rectangular waveguide sizes from WR137 to...
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3G Handset Sales Eclipse 2G Market

“Despite ash clouds over Europe, handset shipments globally for 1Q-2010 powered ahead to 303 million, up 19 percent Year-on-Year,” said Jake Saunders, VP for Forecasting at ABI Research. “This bodes well for 2010 as a whole; shipments could well reach 1.3 billion. It is also notable that 3G handset...
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