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ISCO International, LLC, a leading provider of flexible spectrum conditioning solutions for wireless service providers, today announced Proteus, a new product that “clears the air” of radio interference that infringes upon users trying to connect to a base station for voice or data service. PurePass, the new all digital...

The OpenET Alliance has been incorporated as a non-profit company to encourage faster adoption of Envelope Tracking (ET) technology to reduce the cost and power consumption of wireless transmissions for cellular, broadcast, military and other wireless communications applications. It has appointed a board, is accepting members and has published...

Infineon Technologies AG has opened a new facility in China called Infineon Integrated Circuits (Beijing) Co. Ltd., located in the Beijing Economic and Technological Development Area. In addition to sales and marketing, application R&D and central functions, the new entity houses an IGBT stack manufacturing facility and a technical...

Epic Communications Inc. (Epicom) has announced a series of next generation W-CDMA/HSPA power amplifiers. These PA products are specifically designed for 3G portable devices and mobile phones, and are compatible with industry leading 3G chipset solutions. Epicom plans to offer more advanced PA products for other 3G standards such...

Cree Inc. , a leader in silicon carbide (SiC) power devices, has introduced a fully-qualified commercial silicon carbide power MOSFET. This establishes a new benchmark for energy efficient power switches and can enable design engineers to develop high voltage circuits with extremely fast switching speeds and ultralow switching losses....

Norsat International Inc. , a provider of broadband communications solutions, announced that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire all the shares of Sinclair Technologies Holdings Inc. , a provider of antenna and RF conditioning products, based in Aurora, Ontario. Norsat will pay US$19.25 M, subject to...

Tanner EDA , a catalyst for innovation for the design, layout and verification of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits (IC), and TowerJazz , a global specialty foundry leader, have completed qualification of Tanner EDA’s process design kit (PDK) for TowerJazz’s 0.18 um Power Management process. This design kit includes...

Raytheon Co. has opened a new facility collocated with the US military to enhance collaboration and industrial teaming on warfighter technologies and systems. Located at the Aberdeen Proving Ground's Government and Technology Enterprise or GATE Park — a technology, research and development business area for government and non-government users...

The EDA Consortium (EDAC) Market Statistics Service (MSS) announced that the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry revenue for Q3 2010 was $1307.0 M, an 11.9 percent increase compared to $1167.9 M in Q3 2009. Sequential EDA revenue for Q3 increased 6.9 percent, while the four-quarters moving average, which compares...

Brush Engineered Materials Inc. announced it will change its name to Materion Corp. and unify all of its businesses under the new name effective March 8, 2011. The company's common stock will continue to trade on the New York Stock Exchange. The company said it was announcing the new...