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IKE Micro and its sister company Bonding Source have moved into a newly refurbished facility, doubling their capacity. The 14,000 square foot IKE Micro facility includes a 3,200 Class 10,000 clean room, ESD flooring in the clean room and SMT areas, a larger material handling area for additional turnkey...

Giga-tronics Inc. announced that it has received orders in excess of $4.8 M to supply microwave test equipment for the automation of production at contract manufacturers in China. The products supplied are part of Giga-tronics' microwave signal switching family. These orders are expected to ship this fiscal year. John...

Focus Microwaves and Rohde & Schwarz are pleased to announce a four-city nationwide seminar throughout China covering advanced methods to maximize wireless and microwave product performance, shorten time to market, and reduce product and development costs. Topics covered include ultra-fast noise-parameter extraction and modeling, PA design using harmonic loadpull,...

Latest figures from ABI Research indicates that there are currently more than 500 3G network commitments, and over 300 WiMAX and LTE announcements worldwide. This equates to more than two billion of the world’s population being covered by high-speed data networks. The demand for speedy data networks continues to...

Researchers from A*STAR Institute of Microelectronics (IME) are exploiting high radio frequency to develop future high speed wireless communication products. Using silicon-based materials, the team have successfully realised high speed chips that can wirelessly communicate data at a rate of 10 Gbps on 135 GHz band — more than...

Herley Industries Inc. announced that its Micro Systems Inc. subsidiary in Fort Walton Beach, FL, has been awarded $3 M in contracts to accomplish changes to its aerial target ground control stations and airborne avionics for a US Navy customer. The contracts require a change in operating frequency and...

Twenty-ten, what was that all about? Throughout much of this year, forecasters puzzled over the direction of the economy. Was it heading for a double-dip recession or on its way to being stuck in a jobless recovery for the next decade? Elsewhere, a few optimists claimed to see the...

A vast amount of activity is occurring on a global basis to upgrade electrical power grids to make the delivery of electricity more efficient, reliable, environmentally friendly and cost effective. This includes a wide variety of equipment and technology within the generation, transmission, distribution and metering portions of the...

To meet the ever-increasing demands of next generation wireless infrastructure, fiber optics and advanced military systems markets, WIN Semiconductors Corp. has developed an ultra-high performance 0.1 µm GaAs PHEMT technology. This device platform, named PP10, is produced on 150 mm GaAs wafers in WIN Semiconductor’s state-of-the-art wafer foundry located...

ViaSat Inc. has successfully demonstrated full-mesh satellite communications at Ka-band between an Australian Army deployable 1.0 m Compact Transmit Receive Suite (CTRS) terminal located at the Defense Science and Technology Organization (DSTO) and a 48 cm communication-on-the-move (COTM) terminal located at BAE Systems Australia, using a ViaSat LinkWayS2™ MF-TDMA...