The rollout of 5G in North America buoyed Ericsson’s second quarter financial results, arguably the highlight of a mixed quarter of declining year-over-year sales, improving margins, and greater net income loss.

Infineon Technologies announced cumulative shipments of 5 billion bulk CMOS RF switches since it began volume production in 2008, with annual shipments now well above 1 billion. Infineon's new antenna swapping devices are sampling now.

Keysight Technologies announced it is extending its collaboration with MediaTek to accelerate 5G New Radio (NR) chipset development and testing of 5G NR protocol stacks.

Leti announced that field trials of its new low power wide-area (LPWA) technology, a waveform tailored for IoT applications, showed significant performance gains in coverage, data rate flexibility and power consumption compared to leading LPWA technologies.

LTE technology, the most widely used wireless cellular technology worldwide, achieved more than 38.5 percent market share in the first quarter of 2018 — with 3.2 billion global connections — providing 4G wireless access to a large portion of the world’s population.

Guerrilla RF introduced two InGaP HBT amplifiers to the company’s family of low-current LNAs and linear drivers. Both are tunable over 100 to 3800 MHz to cover the cellular bands.