Industry News

Mitsubishi Develops New GaN HEMT Amplifier

At IMS 2011 in Baltimore, Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Booth 510) will present its gallium nitride high-electron mobility transistor (GaN HEMT) power amplifier for C-band satellites featuring the world's highest power-added efficiency (PAE) rating, 67 percent, an increase of more than seven points compared to conventional amplifiers. The amplifier is...
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RFMD Expands Portfolio of Broadband Components

RF Micro Devices Inc. has extended its portfolio of broadband components to include two new low power IQ modulators featuring integrated fractional-N synthesizers and voltage controlled oscillators (VCO) and will exhibit these components at IMS 2011 in Booth 1402. The RFMD2080 and RFMD2081 are broadband devices capable of generating...
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First Member of Freescale's MC1323x RF Device Family Now Available in Production Quantities

The first device in Freescale Semiconductor’s MC1323x family optimized for consumer applications using ZigBee® RF4CE technology is now available in production quantities. A MC1323x development kit with integrated Synaptics TouchPad technology is also available to help accelerate design cycles and ease the migration from infrared (IR) to radio frequency...
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Litron Buys New Building, Upgrades Equipment

Litron, an Agawam, MA supplier to the aerospace and medical industries for services in laser welding, laser systems, hermetic sealing, and electronic packaging, has invested more than $1 M to purchase a 9,500-square-foot facility just four doors down from its existing 23,500- square-foot facility and to upgrade and expand...
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RJR Polymers To Showcase Liquid Crystal Polymer (LCP) Technology

RJR Polymers, a developer of high performance, air cavity packages (ACP), will demonstrate its innovative LCP semiconductor packaging technology at IMS2011. Leveraging the company’s extensive expertise in epoxies and injection-molded packaging, RJR’s new product line offers RF and microwave system developers a high performance, lower cost alternative to ceramic...
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SPEAG Touting SEMCAD X Microwave

Schmid & Partner Engineering AG (SPEAG) will be showcasing a new state-of-the-art solver, SEMCAD X Microwave, at IMS 2011 at Booth 3204. SEMCAD X Microwave is based on the Mode Matching Technique for the simulation of passive waveguide structures within their simulation suite. The new solver has been integrated...
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