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Around the world, operators are starting to move out of 4G trials and switching to commercial services. With 4G, there will not be the generous allocation of spectrum to which the 3G licensees were lucky enough to have access. The re-farming of spectrum and its reallocation from alternative applications...

Total handsets sold to end-users globally will reach 1.46 billion in 2011, while smartphone sales will account for 27 percent of total handset sell-through. Driven by demand for inexpensive Android models, this figure will almost double to 53 percent in 2015, according to Pyramid Research’s quarterly smartphone forecast. Offered...

In 2011, the world’s annual data traffic volume will total almost 8,000 petabytes. That will grow at a CAGR of 50 percent over the following years, exceeding 60,000 petabytes in 2016 – over seven times more than in 2011. The year-on-year growth will be the fastest in 2012 (58...

Industry News May was another big month for mergers and acquisitions in the microwave industry. Just as the Journal was about to go to press with our June issue, Skyworks Solutions , the subject of this month’s cover feature, announced that it would be acquiring SiGe Semiconductor . The...

At IMS 2011, Scintera (Booth 402) will demonstrate its latest linearization solution in a complete 5 W amplifier lineup. Scintera now has its 2nd generation power amplifier linearization solutions -- the SC1869 and SC1889 available. Based on broadly deployed and field-proven technology, the SC1869 and SC1889 expand Scintera’s power amplifier...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (Booth 1402) will be spotlighting new voltage controlled attenuators (VCA), the RFSA2013 and RFSA2023 at IMS 2011. The new VCA components, which operate from 5 V and 3 V supplies, respectively, cover a wideband frequency range of 50 to 4000MHz and satisfy a wide range...

At IMS 2011 in Baltimore, Microwave Development Labs (MDL) will be exhibiting a pair of new WR90 waveguide rotary joints in “U” and “F” configurations. MDL’s booth at the show is 2519. In the F-type rotary joint, one inline arm is fixed to the housing and the other arm...

At IMS 2011, Telemakus will be spotlighting its first millimeter-wave product, the TEG26500-5 synthesized signal generator, from Booth 2507, RFMW's booth. This USB controlled signal generator adds to the growing family of low phase noise generator products in the Telemakus test equipment family. Operating from 24 to 26.5 GHz...

Hittite Microwave Corp. (Booth 2009) will feature the HMC830LP6GE, an industry leading low noise, wideband, Fractional-N Phase-Locked-Loop (PLL) with integrated voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) at IMS 2011. It is capable of generating continuous frequencies from 25 to 3000 MHz. The HMC830LP6GE features industry leading phase noise and spurious performance across...

The E5072A vector network analyzer will among the design and test innovations that Agilent Technologies Inc. (Booth 813) will showcase at IMS 2011. Agilent recently introduced the newest member of its popular ENA Series of network analyzers. Available as either a two-port, 30 kHz to 4.5 GHz or 8.5...