Articles by RFMD

RFMD Announces Second GaN Process Technology Qualification

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced the successful qualification of the company's second high-power Gallium Nitride (GaN) process technology, expanding the company’s industry-leading portfolio of compound semiconductor technologies. RFMD’s second high-power GaN HEMT process technology (GaN2) achieves 1 to 2 dB higher gain and 6 dB greater linearity than...
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RFMD Showcases Portfolio of RF Components

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced the company will showcase its broad portfolio of industry-leading RF communications components at the IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS), to be held May 25-27, 2010, in Anaheim, CA. During the conference, RFMD will host in-booth demonstrations of the company’s high-power gallium nitride (GaN)...
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RFMD Expands Broadband Transmission Product Portfolio

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance RF components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced the industry’s first 1.2 GHz broadband transmission products, enabling enhanced, bandwidth-driven services for CATV operators and their subscribers. The new products provide options for cable operators to upgrade...
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RFMD Expands Portfolio of Single-chip ISM Band Transceivers

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced the introduction of the ML2730, a single-chip fully integrated Frequency Shift Keyed (FSK) transceiver with integrated power amplifier (PA) and low noise amplifier (LNA). The ML2730 expands...
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RFMD Features Ember ZigBee Technology in High Performance FEMs

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced it is teaming with Ember Corp. to introduce ZigBee® front-end modules (FEM) for smart grid applications that give utilities and consumers more control over how they monitor...
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RFMD Expands Family of Transmit Modules for 3G Entry Phones

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced the addition of four new products to RFMD's portfolio of 3G transmit modules. The four new products – the RF3230, RF3231, RF3232 and RF3171 – are...
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RFMD Secures US DoD Contract

RF Micro Devices (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced that it has been awarded $3.2 M in R&D contracts by the United States Department of Defense related to GaN microelectronics, including materials, device fabrication and high power...
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RFMD Ships Pre-production GaN-based CATV Hybrid Amplifiers

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced that it has commenced pre-production shipments of high-performance gallium nitride (GaN)-based CATV hybrid amplifiers to a major US-based cable television (CATV) equipment provider. Operators of hybrid fiber...
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RFMD Receives First GaN Product Purchase Order

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced RFMD® has received its first purchase order from a tier-one wireless base station original equipment manufacturer (OEM) for a product featuring RFMD's state-of-the-art gallium nitride (GaN) process technology. The purchase order is for RFMD's RFG1M09180 180 W GaN broadband power transistor (BPT) and...
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