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The RF to Light 100 rose 2.2% last week, YTD +12% at 2409. Nasdaq up 2.5%. Shares of Amkor climbed 26% after the semiconductor chip assembly & test company posted an unexpectedly higher 3Q profit with the help from strong demand. They also indicated a 4Q slowdown wouldn't be...

Radiall continues to divest some of its north American interests, the most recent being the signing of an agreement for the sale of the wireless and automotive antennas assets of its Radiall Larsen Antenna Technologies (Radiall Inc.) subsidiary, located in Vancouver, Washington, to Pulse , a subsidiary of the...

The recent ARMMS RF & Microwave Society Conference took on an international flavor with the usual array of UK speakers being joined by others from across Europe, including Belgium and Italy, and the US. The two-day, Nera-sponsored conference, held in Newport Pagnell, UK, featured speakers from industry and academia...

Strategy Analytics, the global research and consulting company, released “RF Component Industry Review: January – March 2006,” noting that financial performance reported by RF component suppliers in Q1 improved. Demand for RF components in Q1 remained strong, supported by strength in the cell phone market. Fifty-three percent of the...

Accident statistics attract worldwide attention. In the US and Europe more than 40,000 people per year are killed in automobile accidents and countless more are injured. A new study by ABI Research reveals that available technologies, including ultrasonic, radar, lidar and camera-based safety systems can address many of the...

The new paint-on antenna technology was tested successfully during flights on the SA-60 Spherical Airship in the Nevada desert. Derived from a series of polymer-based dielectrics and highly conductive paint, the paint-on antennas are designed to be used to establish new high altitude communications and surveillance platforms. With no...

Over 40 million Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receivers were shipped in 2005, but in 2011 the market will have grown to nearly 300 million shipments, according to a new study from ABI Research that tracks GNSS markets across eleven vertical industry segments. That growth will not occur evenly...

Industry News Dr. Leo Young Dr. Leo Young died September 14, 2006, of complications from cancer. He was 80 years old. He was a pioneer in the microwave industry and served as president of both MTT-S and IEEE. He received his BS degree in physics and math in 1946...

Helical type resonators are widely used for frequencies below 0.5 GHz, mainly for mass and dimensional considerations. Replacing the more traditional TEM combline types or dielectric resonators by helical resonators significantly reduces the size and mass of the filters at the expense of the insertion loss. The rather complicated...

Current research studies are drawing more and more attention on the memory effects of high power amplifier linearization, especially for cellular base transceiver system applications. 1,2 Although many studies on power amplifier linearization have been conducted, linearization of strongly nonlinear systems with large memory, which exacerbates the performance of...