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Ansoft Corp. announced the availability of a new library of permanent magnet materials from Shin-Etsu Magnetics Inc. for its Maxwell® electromagnetic field simulation software. The library contains more than 31 high-performance permanent magnets defined at different operating temperatures using rare earth elements that can be downloaded by Ansoft customers...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, announced that several of its single channel and diversity downconverters, including the SKY73032 and the SKY73021, have reached volume production with the industry's leading infrastructure OEMs. Skyworks' highly integrated solutions, which are...

Nextreme , a manufacturer of micro-scale thermal and power management products for the electronics industry, is relocating and expanding its North American corporate headquarters and manufacturing facility within Research Triangle Park, NC. Increasing Nextreme’s production capacity, the 14,000 square-foot, state-of-the art facility includes semiconductor grade clean rooms and an...

Hittite Microwave Corp. announced that it has entered into a strategic agreement with Northrop Grumman to license Northrop Grumman’s Velocium line of Monolithic Microwave Integrated Circuit (MMIC) products and related intellectual property. Under the agreement, Northrop Grumman’s Space Technology sector will license to Hittite a specified list of standard...

Xceive Corp. , a market leader in hybrid silicon tuners with proven success in PC, television and the digital home, and Jazz Semiconductor® , a leader in Analog-intensive Mixed-signal (AIMS) foundry solutions and wholly owned subsidiary of Jazz Technologies™ Inc. announced they have collaborated to deliver Xceive’s next-generation family...

More than 3,000 visitors and 50 WiMAX Forum® member companies are expected to converge on Taiwan to participate in the WiMAX Forum Taipei Showcase (22 and 23 October) and WiMAX Forum conference, which runs from 22 to 26 October, to witness the demonstration of live Mobile WiMAX™ products and...

To accelerate product and market development, NMDG NV , a provider of ‘next-generation characterization and analysis tools’ for the high-frequency electronics and communication market, has secured a meaningful amount of venture capital funding. In 2006, the Belgian company was able to strengthen its position through the R&D industrial project,...

Specialty Coating Systems Inc. has completed its acquisition of Parylene Japan K.K. (PJKK). PJKK, which is a joint venture between SCS and Three Bond Co. Ltd., was established in 1990 to provide world class Parylene conformal coating services and technologies in Japan. Sole ownership of PJKK enables SCS to...

COM DEV International Ltd. , a manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, announced that it has been selected as prime contractor in an open bid process to provide a communication payload test system for Orbital Sciences Corp. . The system will perform automated RF testing on communication satellite payloads, a...

Elcoteq SE , an integrated electronics manufacturing services company with original design manufacturing capabilities in the communications technology field, has become the global manufacturing partner for Telsima, a developer of WiMAX-based broadband wireless access and DCME voice compression solutions. The company, which provides box build manufacturing for WiMAX CPEs,...