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Thales has launched its most powerful Ka-band Traveling Wave Tube. The TH 4092 is able to deliver 500 W peak and 350 W CW, and is intended for large earth-station uplinks for Broadcast and Internet Direct to Home applications. Developed by the company’s microwave and imaging sub-systems R&D teams,...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. has introduced a family of ultra-wideband fixed attenuator pads with a unique through-die via and split ground configuration that provide improved high frequency return loss, attenuation tolerance, flatness and power handling performance. Attenuation pad values from 0 to 30 dB, and operation to 40 GHz, make...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. , a supplier of high performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications integrated circuits (IC), announced the expansion of its European design and manufacturing operations and the opening of a new facility located in Aix-en-Provence, France. Peregrine Semiconductor Europe (PSE) operations include RF integrated circuit (RFIC) design...

Hittite Microwave Corp. , a supplier of complete MMIC-based solutions for communication and military markets, has launched its first D-Type Flip-Flop that supports 28 Gbps data transmission and clock rates up to 28 GHz. The HMC853LC3C is ideal for a wide range of applications, and supports many of the...

SemiGen Inc. , a modern outsource for die packaging, hybrid assembly, and automated PCB manufacturing and test, announced the acquisition of Alternative Microwave Resources (AMR) of Amherst, NH. AMR is a privately held contract manufacturer specializing in hybrid assembly, engineering, and testing of RF and microwave modules up to...

SiGe Semiconductor Inc. has launched the SE2576L, a 2.4 GHz Wireless LAN power amplifier (PA) module. The new IEEE 802.11bgn device is the industry's smallest and most efficient power amplifier operating at 26 dBm. The SE2576L targets applications requiring high RF transmit power such as residential video and data...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and provider of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC), announced the availability of an RF transceiver targeting short-range wireless systems in the global 2.4 GHz ISM band. The transceiver supports the IEEE802.15.4 standard and may be used...