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Skyworks Solutions announced that Huawei's newest flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones are being enabled by 10 Skyworks ICs, from highly integrated modules to analog control ICs.

As a result of numerous orders corresponding with the growth of terahertz frequency range measurements in the wafer test market, MPI Corp. has received industry wide acceptance of the TS150-THZ probe station as the standard for these complicated high frequency measurements. The TS150-THZ addresses the challenging test requirements of multiple emerging markets and applications, such as automotive radar, non-invasive imaging, defense, security and surveillance as well as short-range radar and high-speed 5G communication.

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. ("MACOM") announced the new MAAP-011161 and the MAAP-011193, two packaged linear power amplifiers designed specifically for use in point-to-point radios in cellular backhaul applications.

As the 200 mm wafer test market continues to expand, MPI Corp. is introducing a new fully automatic wafer probe system. The TS2500-RF addresses multiple production test market requirements which include radio frequency (RF) communication devices and discrete passive components.

Widespread deployment of LTE base stations in China drove an increase in RF GaN revenue of nearly 50 percent in 2015, reaching 60 percent of the total market, according to Strategy Analytics..

Guerrilla RF Inc., a leading provider of high performance MMICs, introduced new additions to the company’s family of high linearity gain blocks featuring a unique combination of simple-application schematic, flat gain and high compressed output power which operate from 50 MHz up to as high as 8 GHz.

Genstar Capital, a leading middle-market private equity firm focused on investments in targeted segments of the industrial technology, software, healthcare, and financial services industries, announced the acquisition of Infinite RF Holdings Inc. (IRF), a market leading supplier of engineering grade radio frequency (RF) technology components.

Qorvo announced a family of eight power amplifiers (PA) designed for small cell base stations and distributed antenna systems (DAS) in the 3GPP bands between 1.8 and 2.4 GHz. The multi-stage PAs, which are pin compatible with ANADIGICS PAs, are in production.

Microsemi Corp., a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced it will feature 15 new products from its radio frequency (RF), millimeter wave integrated circuits (ICs), monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), ultra-low power sub-GHz transceivers and high performance WLAN monolithic radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) portfolio at the 2016 IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium (IMS2016) and Exhibition held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, Calif., May 22-27, 2016.