RF & Microwave Industry News

Focus on EuMIC 2006 and the Microwave Integrated Circuits of Tomorrow

The EuMIC Chairman, Steve Marsh, highlights the inaugural conference and look to a future with perhaps GaAs-only mobile phones and GaN chips in base stations
As has been much publicised, 2006 heralds the inauguration of the European Microwave Integrated Circuits Conference, which carries on from the highly successful GAAS ® symposia. The GAAS Association and the European Microwave Association have worked together to produce a conference that maintains the excellent traditions of the former...
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MPG Opens Sales Office in Sweden

Microwave Products Group® (MPG), composed of Dow-Key Microwave and K&L Microwave , announced the opening of a new office in Stockholm, Sweden. This new location significantly enhances MPG’s ability to serve new and existing customers in Scandinavia. It also supports company initiatives to improve customer relations and corporate growth...
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EU Speeds Towards Embedded Systems Design

As part of the European Union’s 6 th Framework Programme for funding technology and scientific projects, a new embedded systems initiative called Speculative and Exploratory Design in Systems Engineering (SPEEDS) has been established. The initiative is a concerted effort to define a standard, end-to-end framework for the implementation of...
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MEMS Initiative Centres on Scotland

The institute for System Level Integration (iSLI) has been awarded £1.12 M of funding by Scottish Enterprise to assist UK industry with the adoption of cutting-edge micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. The award will establish a publicly accessible centre of design excellence, providing the commercial sector with access to expertise...
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Group Discussion on Information Society

The United Nations Group on the Information Society (UNGIS) has been launched to serve as an interagency coordinating mechanism within the UN system to implement the outcomes of the recently concluded World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). The Summit set critical targets for global connectivity and ICT for...
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EPCOS Joins MOBILIS

Alongside leading semiconductor companies and research institutes EPCOS is participating in a new European Union programme known as Mixed SIP and SOC Integration of Power BAW Filters for Digital Wireless Transmissions (MOBILIS). The objective of the program is to develop miniaturized RF filters for the latest mobile phone standards...
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New European Centre for AIDC

The European Centre for Automatic Identification and Data Capture (AIDC) technologies, in Halifax, UK, is expected to become operational later this year, and is due for completion in Spring 2007. Yorkshire Forward is investing more than £5 M in the centre, with additional funding from the UK Department of...
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Bluetooth in 30 Percent of New Vehicles by 2012

Bluetooth will feature in a third of new vehicles in 2012, increasing from just three percent in 2005, according to a new report from technology and consulting firm Strategy Analytics. This report, “Automotive Communications Market: Bluetooth in 30 Percent of New Vehicles by 2012,” predicts that five key influencing...
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