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At the company’s Annual General Meeting on 22 March 2007, Elcoteq SE 's Board of Directors will propose that the company's domicile and head office be transferred to Luxembourg. The purpose being to implement the company's globalization strategy and to create an effective structural basis to ensure the continuous...

The government of Taiwan has approved the application by the Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC) to transfer 0.18 micron generation semiconductor process technology to China for production. TSMC spokesperson and vice president Lora Ho commented, “TSMC greatly welcomes the government’s decision. The addition of 0.18 micron process technology...

Unity Wireless Corp. announced that it has successfully concluded the first phase 18-month trial of the company’s patented synchronized multi source transmission technology with China’s second largest wireless carrier. Unity’s unique technology overcomes multi-path fading and economically increases existing network capacity and coverage. “After our OEM group’s great success...

Nitronex , an developer and manufacturer of high performance RF power transistors for the commercial and broadband wireless infrastructure markets, has developed a high voltage platform to support next generation wireless infrastructure applications. Leveraging the company’s existing qualified NRF1 (GaN on Silicon) technology, the new platform will take advantage...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced the availability of the 3GPP LTE Wireless Library for use with the company’s Advanced Design System (ADS) EDA software. The new library helps wireless-systems designers and verification engineers speed development of the evolving 3GPP Long Term Evolution (LTE) designs for next-generation mobile communications products. The...

The RF to Light 100 closed +0.4% in the first week of 2007. Following companies dropped out of the Index: Bell South (acquired by AT&T), Freescale (acquired by a private group), Lucent (acquired by Alcatel), Broadwing (acquired by Level 3 Comm., HEI (market cap value is   In the...

Frequency Electronics Inc. (FEI) has acquired an approximate 20 percent interest in Elcom Technologies Inc. , a privately-held company located in Rockleigh, NJ. Elcom designs and manufactures high switching speed, low phase noise microwave synthesizers, up-down converters, receivers, ceramic resonant oscillators and dielectric resonant oscillators up to 40 GHz....

CoorsTek Inc. , a large technical ceramics supplier and manufacturer of critical components for high-technology markets, announced the acquisition of Gaiser Tool Co. , a high-quality ceramic precision tooling manufacturer based in Ventura, California with operations in Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1962, Gaiser Tool Co. contributed significantly to the...

Vishay Intertechnology Inc. announced that its Asian subsidiary, Vishay Intertechnology Asia Pte Ltd., recently received a certificate of accomplishment from Agilent Technologies in recognition of its excellent support to the latter between November 2005 and December 2006. Vishay had successfully supported and fulfilled Agilent's quick orders for electronic components...

Agilent Technologies Inc. introduced a series of first-to-market, broadband microwave test accessories specifically optimized for communications and aerospace/defense applications. The innovations embedded in this series provide broadband capability and enhanced measurement accuracy, which significantly expand the test and measurement capabilities in the communications and aerospace/defense industries. Agilent’s new series...