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Vendors will ship $4 B in Wi-Fi radio chips in 2013, most of these for cellphones, notebooks, netbooks, infrastructure, home entertainment systems and wireless gaming consoles. At the same time, adoption of 802.11n MIMO with multiple transmit streams will help boost the market for Wi-Fi power amplifier modules to...

DENSO Corp. , Freescale Semiconductor and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. have joined together to form an industry consortium to drive further development and deployment of the Distributed Systems Interface (DSI) standard. DSI is the automotive industry’s most widely adopted bus standard used to connect remotely placed sensors to the...

Although spending on RF power semiconductors in wireless infrastructure markets has continued to stagnate, other markets – notably the military – are seeing increased activity. Also, according to a new study from ABI Research, gallium nitride – long seen as a promising new “material of choice” for RF power...

TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. , an RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced its acquisition of TriAccess Technologies , a provider of Cable TV (CATV) and Fiber-to-the-Premise (FTTP) integrated circuits for the amplification of high quality multimedia content, effective immediately. Previously, TriQuint served as TriAccess’ foundry supplier. “The...

Freescale Semiconductor introduces two final-stage LDMOS RF power transistors giving designers a choice between discrete and integrated circuit (IC) solutions. This choice, along with two accompanying reference designs, offers designers greater flexibility and speeds time to market. The new transistors are optimized for use in power amplifiers based on...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI), a leader in high performance semiconductors for signal-processing applications and leading provider of amplifier technology, introduced a compact, 36 V precision JFET-input (junction field-effect transistor input) operational amplifier (op amp) with low noise and distortion over a wide temperature range. The 19 MHz ADA4627 JFET-input...

United Monolithic Semiconductors , a leader in microwave and mm-wave MMIC solutions, has announced that its recently created design and customer support center in the United States is now fully operational. Based in Lowell, MA, UMS USA Inc. will contribute to the expansion of the company’s offering with products...

Richardson Electronics Ltd. announced the launch of its redesigned corporate website, www.rell.com , aimed at serving the global community of RF, Microwave and Power Conversion engineers. In developing the new site, Richardson Electronics worked closely with the industry’s leading suppliers for today’s important applications to provide online resources designed...

Following the agreement for Infineon Technologies to sell its Wireline Communications Division (WLC) to the private equity investor Golden Gate Capital, the two companies have announced that the new standalone company will become LANTIQ. The deal is expected to close in fall 2009, at which time LANTIQ will assume...