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Strong demand for Apple’s services, iPad, wearables and Mac computers wasn’t sufficient to offset weakness in iPhone sales, leading to a net 5 percent year-over-year (Y/Y) decline in revenue in the company’s second fiscal quarter (Q2). However, CEO Tim Cook expressed a positive outlook for iPhone sales in China, the world’s biggest cellular market.

MACOM and Goertek, a $2 billion dollar Chinese electronic components manufacturer, are forming a joint venture (JV) company to market and distribute MACOM’s GaN on Si RF power amplifiers to China’s base station market.

In a move to expand its product portfolio and market position and a departure from its long RF history, Qorvo plans to acquire Active-Semi International, a private fabless supplier of programmable analog power solutions.

The PAWR program, funded by the NSF and a consortium of 29 industry partners, announced the completion of the first phase of deployment of an advanced wireless research testbed with end-to-end programmability of radio and edge compute resources in Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Global mobile Suppliers Association (GSA) reported that 102 operators in 52 countries have now either deployed or launched at least one of the cellular IoT technologies, i.e., NB-IoT or LTE-M.