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Cambridge Broadband Networks Ltd. has secured a $16.5 M investment to fund an aggressive growth plan aimed at capitalizing on worldwide demand for its next generation microwave backhaul and access solutions. This latest funding round was oversubscribed and in addition to participation from the existing investors – Accel Partners,...

Renesas Electronics Corp. , a supplier of advanced semiconductor solutions, has announced that Renesas Mobile Corp. , which engages in SoC businesses mainly for mobile devices and car navigation systems, started operation on December 1. The company also announced that it completed the purchase of the wireless modem business...

Picochip has announced significant expansion in its worldwide operations. The femtocell manufacturer has moved to a new headquarters and engineering center in its home city of Bath, UK, opened an advanced test laboratory in Cambridge, UK, and announced plans to double the size of its development centre in Beijing,...

Anaren Inc. has been selected to receive a contract valued in excess of $20 M from Thales-Alenia-Space (France) for development and production of integrated beamforming assemblies that will be deployed on the IridiumNEXT satellite payload. The contract award, expected to be finalized within 90 days, covers design services and...

COMSOL unveiled a pre-release of its market-leading multiphysics modeling and simulation environment, COMSOL Multiphysics version 4.1. Evaluation licenses were distributed to attendees and members of the media present at the sixth annual COMSOL Conference currently being held in Boston, MA. Productivity stands out as the major theme in version...

Industry News Richardson Electronics Ltd . announced the signing of a definitive agreement to sell its RF, Wireless and Power Division (RFPD) and certain other assets to Arrow Electronics Inc . for $210 M in cash. RFPD is a provider of engineered solutions and a distributor of electronic components...

Measuring electromagnetic properties of materials can provide insight into applications in many areas of science and technology. Increasingly, these properties need to be evaluated at the nanometer scale. Since electromagnetic properties, such as the dielectric constant, are ultimately related to a material’s molecular structure, correlating the detailed physical structure...

Lighting is about illuminating our world for a purpose. Whether it be for identification, recognition, beautification, accentuation, decoration, orientation, safety, security or ambience, the associated quest runs for ever more efficient, longer-lasting and sun-like light sources. Efficiency is reducing the amount of energy required to create certain amounts of...

The Power Distribution Systems (PDS) Division of Rogers Corp. has been awarded International Railway Industry Standard (IRIS) certification for its laminated busbar manufacturing facility located in the Suzhou Industrial Park in Jiangsu Province, China. The Rogers PDS-China manufacturing facility is the first laminated busbar manufacturer in China to obtain...

ITU’s Radiocommunication Sector (ITU-R) has completed the assessment of six candidate submissions for the global 4G mobile wireless broadband technology, otherwise known as IMT-Advanced. Harmonization among these proposals has resulted in two technologies, LTE-Advanced and WirelessMAN-Advanced, being accorded the official designation of IMT-Advanced, qualifying them as true 4G technologies....