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Salvan: Cradle of Wireless

Reports that Marconi conducted early wireless experiments in the Swiss Alps are no longer assumed to be true.
In 1965, inhabitants of Salvan, Switzerland, located above Martigny in the Mont Blanc region, “remembered” that a senior citizen of their village had lived a very unusual experience seventy years before, when he was a young boy.
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Integrated Passive and Active Devices Using CSP, DFN and QFN Packaging for Portable Electronic Applications

Over the past five years, an explosion in growth of the portable electronics industry has provided numerous opportunities for manufacturers of RF components. Today, the designers of compact electronic systems, especially handheld/wireless devices, are faced with tightening board space constraints, thus driving the requirement for alternative integrated passive technologies....
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AACER System Would Detect Ground Targets

Development of an airborne radar that can search broadly for ground targets while transmitting data about them at Ka-band is the objective of the Affordable Adaptive Conformal ESA Radar (AACER) program awarded to Raytheon by the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA). Raytheon was selected to proceed with Phase...
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European Ministers Formulate Space Strategy

Following a two-day meeting of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) ruling Council the Ministers responsible for space in the ESA’s 17 Member States and Canada formulated a coherent plan for discovery and competitiveness for Europe in space. They accordingly endorsed the continuation of a set of ongoing programmes and...
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Avago Emerges from Agilent Semiconductor Group Acquisition

Avago Technologies has begun operations as the world’s largest privately held independent semiconductor company. Its creation follows the completion of the acquisition of Agilent Technologies Inc.’s Semiconductor Products Group by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR) and Silver Lake Partners in a $2.66 B transaction. Its heritage of technical...
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