RF & Microwave Industry News

A Comprehensive 3D EM Simulation Environment

3D electromagnetic simulation is not only being used for the well established applications of antenna and microwave design, but issues associated with EMC, EMI, ESD and shielding also mean that it is playing an increasingly important role in the product development process across a wide range of applications. To...
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Industry News

Fred Miller, founder of West Bond Inc., passed away on April 21, 2007, from complications a week after a fall. Over 40 years ago, in 1966, Miller bootstrapped his own company West Bond, which became West Bond Inc. in 1968, giving the microelectronic world the first X-Y-Z micromanipulator breakthrough...
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Cellphone Strength Unabated

Strategy Analytics, the research and consulting company, released “RF Industry Review October– December 2006,” which notes that leading suppliers of RF components continued to report significant profits in Q4 on strong wireless handsets and wireless system demand. In the fourth quarter of 2006, the majority of RF component suppliers...
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INEX Joins DMD’s Development Program

Diamond Microwave Devices (DMD), a subsidiary of Element Six Ltd. (E6), has signed a contract with INEX to provide the processing technology for its electronic component development program. DMD is working on the next generation of high power, high temperature semiconductor devices for microwave power electronics. Based within the...
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Consortium Secures UK MoD contract

A QinetiQ led consortium has been awarded the Enabling Secure Information Infrastructure (ESII) programme by the UK MoD’s (Ministry of Defence) Research Acquisition Organisation (RAO). The initial four tasks are worth in excess of £5 M and form the first research packages let under a three and a half...
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