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Nitronex , a developer and manufacturer of high-performance RF power transistors for wireless infrastructure, broadband and military markets, has received Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding to further develop its GaN technology for military and aerospace applications. The two year Phase II STTR program began in the...

QinetiQ Group plc has agreed to acquire Dominion Technology Resources Inc. (DTRI), a provider of high end products and services to the US Intelligence Community. DTRI’s expertise focuses on mission architecture engineering, integration and operations support. Under the terms of the agreement, which is conditional upon regulatory clearance in...

Alcatel-Lucent has announced that its corporate learning organization for both employees and customers, Alcatel-Lucent University, has been accredited with a certificate of quality from the European Foundation for Management Development (EFMD) as part of its Corporate Learning Improvement Process (CLIP). This certificate, first awarded to the University in 2003,...

STMicroelectronics , one of the world’s largest semiconductor manufacturers and a world leader in MEMS and power ICs, is to be the principal sponsor of the 17 th European Microelectronics and Packaging Conference & Exhibition (EMPC 2009). The company will work with the organizer, the Italian chapter of the...

Avago Technologies announced a highly efficient, linear power amplifier for 18 to 33 GHz frequency ranges. The company is a supplier of analog interface components for communications, industrial and consumer applications. Avago’s AMMC/P-6333 is a high performance driver amplifier with very high gain and power coupled with excellent input...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, announced that it has shipped more than two billion power amplifier (PA) modules since product inception near the turn of the decade. The company is an architectural pioneer of PA and complete...

As the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing gets well into its first week, a new high speed train sprinting between Beijing and Tianjin in China is supporting super-fast wireless communications onboard thanks to Andrew , the CommScope Inc. division that is a global leader in communications systems and products....

Ultra-fast 100 GHz electrical sampling gates (“samplers”) with aperture widths of 7 picoseconds, and pulse generators (“pulsers”) with usable output energy extending to over 150 GHz, have both recently been demonstrated using a new, low-cost, fully monolithic “Rapid Automatic Cascode Exchange” (RACE) IC circuit architecture.1 These samplers, cast in...

Rohde & Schwarz and Qasara have announced a joint programme to verify inter-operability between Rohde & Schwarz’s 3GPP LTE Virtual Tester and Qasara’s LTE compliant UE protocol stack. The collaboration provides an independent verification of a complete, end to end, LTE protocol stack. LTE is set to enable the...

Telit Wireless Solutions Inc. , the Italy-based M2M mobile technology arm of Telit Communications PLC, has appointed six wireless industry leaders to guide the launch of the company’s operations and sales force in South America. Telit will begin manufacturing the company’s innovative M2M modules in São Paulo, Brazil, this...