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Except for iPhone sales, Apple’s fiscal first quarter financial results reflect positive trends for the company. Apple’s total revenue, $84.3 billion, was down 5 percent from the prior year’s quarter. iPhone revenue drove the decline, down 15 percent from the prior year’s quarter, while all other segments grew.

Dr. Nitin Jain, Anokiwave founder and CTO, has been named an IEEE Fellow for leadership in the development of physics-based models for millimeter wave SoC ICs.

Sivers IMA has signed an agreement to supply millimeter wave RFICs to an Eastern European broadband wireless access system supplier for new fixed wireless access products planned to be launched before the end of 2019.

To support 5G, Mitsubishi Electric Corporation has developed a digitally controlled GaN power amplifier (PA) covering 1.4 to 4.8 GHz with more than 40 percent efficiency.

Following Apple and Samsung, Skyworks has reduced its revenue guidance for the December quarter to $970 million, 4 percent below the midpoint of the prior guidance. The revenue shortfall will impact earnings, with revised EPS projected between $1.81 and $1.84, compared to the prior guidance of $1.91 (at the revenue midpoint).

MACOM Technology Solutions has introduced the company’s first wideband, low phase noise amplifier, designed for signal generation applications in test and measurement, radar, electronic warfare and countermeasures systems.