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RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD®), a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance semiconductor components, announced RFMD has received its first purchase order from a tier-one wireless base station original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for a product featuring RFMD's state-of-the-art gallium nitride (GaN) process technology. The purchase order...

Radiall USA Inc. expands its EPXB and QM connector insert arrangements with the release of two new configurations. These two high density inserts, 48 (48 size 22 contacts) and 69 (69 size 24 contacts), offer optimized space for signal contacts, a gain of 20 percent more contacts for the...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $7.6 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $605.1 M MTS contract increased to $589.8 M. The orders are for...

Because of the unique characteristics of the specification, LTE mobile infrastructure will require components with high linearity and low loss in very small form factors; they must also operate with low power consumption. Manufactured using UltraCMOS, the Peregrine PE43204 digital step attenuator (DSA) meets these complex demands. It is...

Cambridge Consultants announced it has developed InCognito™, a novel, low-cost ‘spectral sensing’ cognitive radio technology platform that will allow any radio product to transmit without interference over so the called ‘whitespace’ frequencies recently vacated by the US digital TV switchover. These highly desirable TV band frequencies easily penetrate walls,...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD®) announced that RFMD has qualified and released the RF3931, a 48 V, 30 W gallium nitride (GaN) unmatched transistor optimized for high power commercial and defense applications. The RF3931 is RFMD's first GaN product to achieve full product qualification, a process through which RF...

Novatel Wireless , a provider of wireless broadband solutions, announced its entry into the Machine-to-Machine (M2M)-smart devices market through a multiyear Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Cinterion Wireless Modules , a leader in M2M communication modules. Under the terms of the agreement, Novatel Wireless and Cinterion Wireless Modules will...

NXP Semiconductor has been ranked at the top of the latest Vendor Matrix released by ABI Research. INSIDE Contactless and Infineon Technologies claimed the second and third spots in the company’s most recent evaluation of worldwide contactless transaction IC vendors. “This year, NXP retained its top position after 12...