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Linear Technology Corp. opened the company’s third semiconductor test facility in Singapore. The additional space for staff, equipment and materials will allow the company to more than double its production capacity of advanced analog circuits and µModule® (micromodule) products. This will strengthen Linear Technology’s ability to meet the growing demand for high performance analog integrated circuits worldwide.

Qorvo^®, a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense applications, announced that Qorvo has been selected by a leading global smartphone manufacturer to expand its support of a marquee Android^® smartphone platform launching in the current quarter. Qorvo has broadly expanded its participation in this highly anticipated device to include RF Fusion™ RF front end modules, diversity receive modules, power amplifier duplexers (PADs), switches, impedance tuners, low noise amplifiers (LNAs), duplexers and filters.

Soitec (Euronext), a world leader in manufacturing innovative semiconductor materials and a supplier of wafers for radio-frequency silicon-on-insulator (RF-SOI) applications, has begun mass production of 300-mm RF-SOI substrates for mobile communications.

Custom MMIC, a leading developer of performance driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC), has added another new amplifier to its growing product line, the CMD233 2 to 20 GHz distributed low noise amplifier.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp., founder of RF SOI (silicon on insulator) and pioneer of advanced RF solutions, announces the UltraCMOS^® PE4314, a 75-ohm glitch-less RF digital step attenuator (DSA). This new DSA extends Peregrine’s existing glitch-less DSA portfolio to 75 ohms. The PE4314 is ideal for wired broadband applications in cable/satellite customer premises equipment (CPE) and infrastructure equipment.

Qorvo^®, a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, announced that Qorvo's recently launched RFPA55X2 Wi-Fi power amplifier (PA) family is enabling many of today's leading home and business WLAN networking devices.

e2v and Peregrine Semiconductor announce strategic reseller agreement, where e2v will be the worldwide supplier of Peregrine’s high-reliability RF products for the space market. The agreement extends e2v's broad product offering from RF to the back end, including data converters, memory and high-performance data processing.

FormFactor Inc. and Cascade Microtech Inc. announced that they have entered into a definitive agreement under which FormFactor will acquire all outstanding Cascade shares in a cash and stock transaction.

Researchers at HRL Laboratories, LLC, have achieved the first demonstration of gallium nitride (GaN) complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) field-effect-transistor (FET) technology, and in doing so have established that the semiconductor’s superior transistor performance can be harnessed in an integrated circuit.

Richardson Electronics, Ltd. announced the availability of the expanded portfolio of core ICs for commercial AESAs from Anokiwave, Inc.