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To satisfy new market opportunities, microelectronic companies continue to develop new products and processes, with some companies deciding acquisition provides the best path to these new opportunities. The Strategy Analytics GaAs and Compound Semiconductor Technologies Service (GaAs) viewpoint, “Compound Semiconductor Industry Review May 2011: Microelectronics,” captures product, technology, contract...

TowerJazz , the global specialty foundry leader, announced the closing of the sale of all its holdings in Hua Hong Semiconductor Ltd. (HHSL), the parent company of HHNEC, one of Mainland China’s leaders in the field of IC foundry service, in a HHSL share repurchase transaction, for $32 M...

Altair Semiconductor , a developer of ultra-low power, small footprint and high performance 4G LTE chipsets, announced that its TD-LTE chipset, integrated in a commercial USB dongle, achieved download speeds of more than 100Mbps in a live over-the-air demonstration. This achievement means the promise of LTE -- that the...

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corp. , a Korea-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products, and Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. , a fabless provider of high performance radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits (ICs), announced that MagnaChip has ramped to mass production of Peregrine’s RF switch products utilizing the latest generation...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. introduced a new GaAs broadband push-pull CATV amplifier. The amplifier features 20.5 dB gain, with broadband linear performance. Packaged in a 4 mm QFN, 20-lead plastic package, the MAAM-009455 is an ideal inter-stage or output amplifier. “With the introduction of the MAAM-009455, we continue to...

ABI Research’s optimistic forecasts for the penetration of high powered RF integrated circuits into the mobile wireless base station market continue to be borne out by the latest market developments, which project more than 10 million high power RFIC units will be shipped in 2011. According to Mobile Networks...

Nujira has opened an IC Design Centre in Edinburgh, Scotland, and has been awarded £175,000 funding from Scottish Development International to support the initiative. The new design centre has opened with a small team of engineers but has plans to draw on the pool of IC design expertise based...

Infineon Technologies has introduced a new series of Receive Front-End Modules for implementation of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) functionality in smartphones and other handheld devices. The new BGM103xN7 Series devices are claimed to be the first modules available that support separate or simultaneous reception of both Global Positioning...