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Richardson Electronics Ltd. announced that it has entered into an agreement with RADIALL , a manufacturer of interconnect components, to promote and distribute “Service +”, an innovative and automated program for ordering, manufacturing and delivering RF cable assemblies. “RADIALL’s Service + provides Richardson the opportunity to better serve our...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. , an RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, is pleased to announce that Ralph Quinsey, its chief executive officer, has received the Portland Business Journal ’s “CEO of the Year” award for technology companies in Oregon. The award was presented at the Business Journal’s...

Alcatel-Lucent has been selected by China Telecom to provide an end-to-end communication solution and increase the capacity and coverage of its mobile voice and data network throughout the country. The contract was secured through Alcatel Shanghai Bell, Alcatel-Lucent’s Chinese flagship company. With this $230 M contract, Alcatel Shanghai Bell...

Runcom Technologies Ltd. , a supplier and developer of fixed and mobile WiMAX™ solutions, and Rohde & Schwarz , the leader in wireless communications test and measurement, have completed a scalable turnkey solution for a mass production line for mobile stations based on Runcom OFDMA technology. The R&SCMW270 WiMAX...

Rogers Corp. initiated a complaint of patent infringement against the Arlon Electronic Material Group located in Rancho Cucamonga, CA, a division of WHX Corp., for its sale in the US of Arlon TC-600 circuit board material. The complaint claims Arlon infringed on US Patent No. 5,552,210, "Ceramic Filled Composite...

Applied Radar Inc. has been selected to receive an additional $6.4 M in new contracts from the Department of Defense (DoD), according to company CEO William H. Weedon. The new funding consists of $4.0 M in SBIR/STTR funding, through four separate contracts, from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA)...

SiGe Semiconductor Inc. announced an RF front-end solution for Wi-Fi® applications. The device is based on an innovative architecture that is the first to integrate two fully matched power amplifiers on a single die. The architecture optimizes size and power consumption, enabling manufacturers to support wireless multimedia applications in...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that it has received a new contract award totaling approximately $4.5 M from a U.S. prime contractor. Herley New England in Woburn, MA, has been awarded the first production contract to provide custom designed complex microwave assemblies developed for ongoing F-16 upgrades. Myron Levy, Herley's...

HRL Laboratories LLC , announced it has demonstrated the world’s first graphene radio frequency (RF) field effect transistors (FET) as part of the Carbon Electronics for RF Applications, or CERA program. The milestone is the first in the proposed 51-month, three-phase program to develop a new generation of carbon-based...

EMS Technologies Inc. announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Satamatics Global Ltd. , a global provider of Inmarsat IsatM2M (machine-to-machine or “M2M”) services, headquartered in Tewkesbury, UK. The acquisition complements the company’s existing Iridium- and Inmarsat-based tracking solutions. EMS expects the acquisition to be accretive...