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Industry status as of March 2006 The SIA has released revenue numbers for January 2006 of $17.42 billion dollars (raw numbers not 3 month moving average). The January numbers are up from $17.34 billion dollars in January of 2005 and represents a 0.5 percent growth month over month. Figure...

Industry News QUALCOMM Inc. announced that the company has acquired Berkana Wireless Inc. , a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company. Berkana is a provider of complementary metal oxide semiconductor radio frequency integrated circuits to the wireless industry. The addition of Berkana’s RF CMOS intellectual property, design portfolio and engineering...

Northrop Grumman Corp. and the US Air Force successfully completed flight testing of the Battlefield Airborne Communications Node (BACN), a significant milestone toward providing warfighters an advanced way to share critical information by communicating over airborne networks at high altitudes. BACN is an Internet protocol-based airborne communications relay and...

A Raytheon Co. Precision Attack Air-to-Surface Missile (PAASM) was successfully launched from a rotary-winged, unmanned aerial vehicle (UH-1) at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The missile was fired from a standard M299 digital launcher and met planned test objectives. Upon receiving the launch command, the PAASM missile successfully ignited...

Lockheed Martin successfully conducted three flight tests of the Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System (GMLRS) Unitary rockets recently in three separate missions at White Sands Missile Range, NM. The tests objectives included demonstrating the GMLRS Unitary rocket in the point detonate, delay and proximity modes at short and long...

STMicroelectronics has been given a leadership role in a new European Integrated Project – Controlling Leakage Power in NanoCMOS SoCs (CLEAN). The three-year research project, co-funded by the European Commission, aims to extend battery life and reduce the power consumed by electronics by finding solutions to controlling leakage currents...

Aimed at expanding Infineon Technologies’ presence in Eastern Europe and aid the research into power semiconductors and chip-card security controllers, the company has opened its newest development centre in Bucharest, Romania. The activities in the facility are being managed by the regional company, Infineon Technologies Romania SRL. The initial...

Cellular operators in Western Europe should expect another challenging year in 2006, according to Western European Cellular User Forecasts, 2005–2010, the latest research report on the subject from the Strategy Analytics Wireless Network Strategies service. Competitive pressure saw average revenues weaken in 2005 with churn creeping up and the...

Denmark’s two leading companies within the country’s defence industry — Terma and Systematic — have concluded an agreement that will open up the prospects for export and enable the two companies to jointly bid for contracts which are expected from the Danish Army. With the Danish market as the...

The In Orbit Validation (IOV) phase is designed to test the new European satellite navigation system under real mission conditions. During this phase, EADS Astrium in Ottobrunn, Germany, will assume system leadership for the space segment and initially take overall responsibility for the construction of the first four of...