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The current global economic slump will be felt broadly across all semiconductor end-use market segments, reports In-Stat. This slump is unlike the 2001 downturn that was demand-driven and more strongly felt in some segments than in others. “The automotive segment is expected to experience a 22.7 percent revenue decline...

Any reader who believed all the recent headlines would feel confident that the WiMAX market is being crushed by LTE. Nortel has left the WiMAX market and Alcatel-Lucent has “backed off” from WiMAX; these developments supposedly dealt a blow to Clearwire, which had so far chosen neither as an...

No one can deny that green and clean agendas are rising to the surface in the mobile communications market. ABI Research forecasts that in 2009 over 800,000 base stations will utilize alternative energy solutions such as wind or solar energy, and that nearly 70 million mobile devices will be...

US consumer spending on Subscription-TV, Broadband and Mobile Services will be “about the same” for most consumers, but about 15 percent intend to cut back. As a result, In-Stat estimates that consumer spending across these three segments could see nearly a $5 B decrease during the next 12 months....

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Cobham, announced that it has sold M/A-COM Technology Solutions (MTS) to John Ocampo for $30 M in cash, $30 M in senior loan notes secured on the MTS assets and $30 M dependent on future revenue in the period 2010 to 2012. The loan notes carry a rate of...

The first of the vital European receiver systems that will become part of the Atacama Large Millimeter/sub-millimeter Array (ALMA) project in the Atacama Desert in Chile have been shipped to South America from the Science and Technology Facilities Council’s (STFC) Rutherford Appleton Laboratory (RAL) in Oxfordshire, UK, where they...

In a move that will put the companies at the forefront of high temperature microelectronic solutions, C-MAC MicroTechnology and Belgium-based CISSOID have agreed to a strategically important partnership that will lead to the development of high reliability components, modules and sub-systems for high temperature applications operating up to 225°C....

SELEX Galileo has been awarded a $9.2 M contract from TKC Aerospace Inc. to upgrade the Customs and Border Protection C-550 Citation Tracker Aircraft with its Vixen 500E intercept radar and associated mission management system. This contract is for the first two radars and mission management systems, with options...

Satellite 2009 took place March 24-27 in Washington, DC and was dubbed Solutions Start Here. It lived up to its billing of offering a glimpse into the future of the satellite-enabled communications market and the solutions new technology will provide. The conference sessions covered enterprise, military, commercial, broadcast, government,...