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Adding to its 5G portfolio, Skyworks has introduced an antenna aperture tuning switch, the SKY5™−9269-702LF, a SP4T switch covering 600 MHz to 6 GHz designed for LTE Advanced Pro and 5G mobile platforms.

JETCOOL Technologies unveiled a new approach to cooling computer processors and other electronics at the 2019 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS2019), winning the MIT spin-off the title of Next Top Startup.

On August 1, Arralis Technologies plans to open an office in the U.S., located in Daytona Beach, Florida, at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Research Park.

Modelithics has completed several lab upgrades to improve and expand its measurement capability and characterization services. The upgrades bring enhanced measurement capabilities to many of Modelithics’ characterization services, including IV, S-parameter, X-parameter, load-pull, impedance and noise measurements.

In our latest industry chat, market analyst Earl Lum and I sat down to compare notes about the wireless industry and what caught our attention at #IMS2019. Listen to our conversation on this episode of the Microwave Journal podcast.

As detailed in a new report from Mobile Experts, the mmWave market for RF front-end components will grow to more than $1 billion by 2024, driven by smartphones, hotspots and fixed customer premises equipment.

In a move to restore profitability, MACOM is terminating 250 staff — 20 percent of the workforce — and closing seven product development facilities, expected to save $50 million annually.

GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) and Soitec announced the two companies have signed multiple long-term supply agreements for 300 mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers. The agreements assure GF will have sufficient high volume wafer supply to meet the demand for its RF SOI, fully-depleted SOI (FD-SOI) and silicon photonics process platforms.