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In a shallow press release, Qualcomm Technologies announced that Lenovo, OPPO, Vivo and Xiaomi have expressed interest in purchasing Qualcomm’s RFFE components.

Anokiwave Inc. has opened a mmWave design verification laboratory in its San Diego office.

In the last couple of years, the RF GaN market experienced an impressive growth and has reshaped the RF power industry landscape. By the end of 2017, the total RF GaN market was close to US$380 million, announces Yole Développement in this new report titled “RF GaN Market: Applications, Players, Technology and Substrates 2018-2023.” 

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announces the LTC5562, a low power, high performance, active double balanced mixer capable of 50 Ω matching over a wide frequency range, from 30 MHz to 7 GHz.

Skyworks has introduced the SKY66114-11, its latest 2.4 GHz fully-integrated RF front-end module (FEM), supporting Bluetooth^® Low Energy/Bluetooth^® Smart, 802.15.4, Thread and ZigBee^® protocols.

NI announced the PXIe-4163 high-density source measure unit (SMU), which provides 6x more DC channel density than previous NI PXI SMUs for testing RF, MEMS and mixed-signal and other analog semiconductor components.

Marki Microwave is introducing three new passive GaAs MMIC mixers, each covering RF/LO from 2 to 12 GHz and IF DC to 3 GHz.

Peregrine Semiconductor, formed in 1990 and acquired by Murata in 2014, has a new name and logo — pSemi™ — and an expanded charter for semiconductor integration. In addition to its historic focus on RF switches and related components for mobile and infrastructure, pSemi’s product portfolio will encompass power management, connected sensors and optical transceivers.