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The Strategy Analytics annual five year outlook for the Gallium Arsenide microelectronics industry, “GaAs Industry Forecast 2007-2012,” predicts that year-on-year growth in the GaAs industry will slow to 9 percent in 2008. However this study maintains previous guidance on long-term growth and the market will break the $5 B...

The latest study from Strategy Analytics, “Point-to-Point Radio GaAs Market 2007-2012,” predicts that point-to-point radio shipments will increase at a compound annual average growth rate (CAAGR) of 8 percent, to exceed 1.5 million units in 2012. Radio cellular backhaul will continue to be the primary market for point-to-point radios,...

According to the story told in 1968 by a senior citizen of Salvan, in 1895 Guglielmo Marconi carried out some of his earliest wireless experiments in the vicinity of this picturesque village of the Swiss Alps. The IEEE duly acknowledged this event, and granted a “Historical Milestone in Electrical...

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Maryland-based subsidiary, Comtech Mobile Datacom Corp. , received orders totaling $7.6 M under its Movement Tracking System, or MTS contract, with the US Army. Total orders received to date against the $605.1 M MTS IDIQ contract increased to $133.6 M. The orders are...

Endwave Corp. announced the release of three new high-linearity broadband low noise amplifiers (LNA) that preserve signal purity by minimizing the nonlinear contributions. These amplifiers simultaneously achieve several high performance characteristics in a unique wideband design, and are available in three frequency bands of 0.5 to 2 GHz (JCA02-4000),...

Crystek Corp. has released its model CVS575S-500, a 500 MHz voltage-controlled SAW (surface acoustic wave) oscillator, or VCSO. SAW crystal technology provides low-noise and low-jitter performance with true sinewave output. The lead-free, RoHS-compliant CVS575S-500 is offered in a 5 x 7.5 x 2.5 mm SMD package. Phase noise is...

AmpTech Inc. announced availability of contract manufacturing foundry services at the company’s fabrication facility in Milpitas, CA. The company offers Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) and Indium Phosphide (InP) processes targeted for RFIC and Optoelectronics applications. According to Ray Milano, president and CEO of AmpTech, “AmpTech is committed to providing foundry...

Aeroflex announced the release of new software for the 3500 1 GHz handheld radio test set to support Survey Technologies Field Test 6 Software. Now, users of the 3500 series can improve and automate the acquisition, analysis and display of signal strength across a given terrain, as well as...

COM DEV International , a global designer and manufacturer of space hardware subsystems, has gone against the trend of companies outsourcing their skilled workforce to other states and countries by opening a new state-of-the-art engineering and production facility in El Segundo, CA. "We are tremendously excited to have the...

The enhanced capabilities of a new global satellite communications (SATCOM) system were successfully tested recently by MIT Lincoln Laboratory , representing a major step forward in improving communications among US Department of Defense commands around the world. In March, Lincoln Laboratory completed its portion of the on-orbit testing of...