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IMS2009, the annual conference and exhibition of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Microwave Theory and Techniques Society (MTT-S), attracted more than 9,000 attendees from the global community of designers, researchers, developers, academics and executives in the microwave and RF industry to the Boston Convention & Exhibition...

Nujira has signed a global distribution agreement with the RF, Wireless and Power Division (RFPD) of Richardson Electronics Ltd. Under the agreement, the company will market, sell and support Nujira Coolteq™ power modulators and Digital Pre-Distortion (DPD) solutions in all applications and markets, most notably the cellular infrastructure and...

The Durel Division of Rogers Corp. has announced the latest addition to its high-performance electroluminescent (EL) lamp driver integrated circuits (IC) - D392A. The D392A EL lamp driver delivers the programmable output voltages needed to power a wide range of EL lamps, including in portable applications such as cellular...

Infineon Technologies AG has agreed to sell its Wireline Communications (WLC) business to an affiliate of US-based investor Golden Gate Capital for €250 M. Closing is expected in autumn 2009. This transaction will enable Infineon to focus on four segments in the future: Automotive, Industrial and Multimarket, Chipcard and...

The University of California, San Diego (UCSD), provider of a program in microwave and millimeter-wave RFICs and mixed-signal, and Jazz Semiconductor® , a Tower Group company, announced that they have collaborated to develop a two-antenna quad-beam RFIC phased array receiver covering the 11 to 15 GHz frequency range. First...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corp. , a supplier of high performance RF CMOS and mixed-signal communications ICs, and MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd. , an Asia-based designer and manufacturer of analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for high volume consumer applications, announced that the companies have completed the final qualification phase in the process...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced it has entered into a cooperative agreement with the US Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop a commercially viable and high volume-capable compound semiconductor-based process for high performance photovoltaic (PV) cells. Under the terms of a Cooperative Research and...

Hittite Adds Wideband Direct Modulators for 3G and 4G

Hittite Microwave Corp. has introduced two new Wideband Direct I/Q Modulators that are ideal for automotive, broadband, cellular/3G, WiMAX/4G, military and test & measurement equipment applications between 20 and 4000 MHz.

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