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Strategy Analytics analysts, speaking at the plenary sessions of both the IEEE CSIC Symposium and the Power Amplifier Symposium, reaffirmed that GaAs technologies will continue to dominate the radio front-end in cellular handsets, despite competition from silicon technologies. The move toward 3G and beyond, coupled with the need to...

Barry Industries announced the company's participation within the Modelithics CLR Library. The Modelithics CLR Library is a substrate – and part value – scalable surface-mount model library that now allows designers to de-embed pad parasitic effects, enabling user-specified pad effects to be applied. Barry featured products are scalable resistors...

Agilent Technologies Inc. announced that it plans to maintain membership in the PXI Systems Alliance to support the customers of two recent acquisitions, Acqiris and PXIT. Acqiris and PXIT are members of the Alliance. "This does not alter our direction and commitment to LXI," said Scott Sampl, vice president...

Nitronex , a developer and manufacturer of high performance RF power transistors for the commercial and broadband wireless infrastructure markets, announced plans to move its corporate headquarters from its current R&D facility in Raleigh, NC, to a manufacturing facility adjacent to the Research Triangle Park (RTP) in Durham, NC....

TRAK Microwave Corp. announced that it has received a production contract from Ball Aerospace (Broomfield, CO) for the continuation of the ATACMS (Army Tactical Missile System) program. TRAK will supply its custom-designed switch network assembly that is integrated with the ball aerospace antenna system and then delivered to the...

SUSS MicroTec and Surface Technology Systems (STS), providers of MEMS manufacturing solutions worldwide, announced a US-based roadshow called "MEMS Technology: Embracing the Future," scheduled to debut in Boston, MA on April 20th. "MEMS Technology: Embracing the Future" will include presentations on the latest critical manufacturing processes in MEMS today....

The WiMAX Forum® has bestowed principal member status on Agilent Technologies Inc. This accolade is the result of the company’s active involvement in the Forum since 2004 and its introduction of test equipment to support WiMAX™ technology. Principal member status will further strengthen its ability to deliver standards-based WiMAX...

Aeroflex has outlined a comprehensive product strategy in support of WiMAX, the IEEE 802.16e standard that has been developed to enable the delivery of last-mile wireless broadband access as an alternative to wired broadband like cable and DSL. The Aeroflex WiMAX strategy, which covers R&D test, protocol development test,...

Allgon Microwave , a pioneer of integrated Ethernet point-to-point microwave systems, has been awarded two significant contracts in Scandinavia. First, Generic Mobile has selected the company as a supplier of microwave radios for its wireless broadband network in Sweden. Generic Mobile is a telecom operator and the leading supplier...

NXP Semiconductors , the independent semiconductor company founded by Philips, is consolidating its manufacturing operations in Europe. In order to do so the company will close its manufacturing facility in Boeblingen, Germany, by the end of 2007, with the majority of the production load being transferred to its factories...