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Due to its recent agreement with Nokia , Qualcomm Inc. is likely to solidify its lead in the global market for mobile-handset baseband semiconductors, according to iSuppli Corp. Based on iSuppli’s preliminary estimate, Qualcomm in the fourth quarter accounted for 40.6 percent of worldwide revenue from shipments of mobile...

Strategy Analytics’ latest GaAs report, “ RFMD , Skyworks and TriQuint Consolidate Market Leadership,” calculates that the overall gallium arsenide (GaAs) device market grew 9 percent year-on-year in 2008, with early estimates showing that RFMD, Skyworks and TriQuint further consolidated their leadership of the GaAs device industry, accounting for...

Laird Technologies Inc. , a leader in the design and manufacture of customized, performance-critical components for wireless systems and other advanced electronics applications, announced the availability of two new dual-band external MIMO external antennas – the S245112PT directional and the S24517PT sector. Both antennas are specifically designed to enhance...

As one of the first major global events of the year the 2009 GSMA Mobile World Congress was not only eagerly awaited for the technology and evolutionary clues that it would divulge, but also as a barometer of the impact of the global downturn on an industry that has...

IEEE , the world’s largest technical professional society, signed a merger agreement with the honor society Eta Kappa Nu (HKN), a nonprofit, public-service organization comprising nearly 200 university chapters. The merger, which will go into effect by mid-2009 pending final approval, will make HKN the official honor society of...

Mimix Broadband Inc. introduces a GaAs MMIC high power amplifier with +35 dBm pulsed saturated output power and 22 dB large-signal gain. This power amplifier, identified as XP1072-BD, covers 34 to 37 GHz and achieves 25 percent power added efficiency (PAE). The device is well suited for millimeter-wave military,...

Freescale Semiconductor , a supplier of 802.15.4 chipsets, announced it has shipped more than seven million IEEE® 802.15.4 and ZigBee® units in 2008 for the wireless sensor networks used in smart energy, industrial control and home entertainment applications. A recent study by In-Stat, “802.15.4 – A New Sense of...

Freescale Semiconductor has introduced its next generation of laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) RF power transistors to meet growing demand for reduced power consumption in cellular transmitters. Building on its legacy of RF power transistor leadership, Freescale’s eighth generation high voltage (HV8) RF Power LDMOS technology is engineered...

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high performance semiconductor components, announced the company's RF7168 dual-band GSM/GPRS transmit module (TxM) has been selected to support multiple MediaTek GSM/GPRS handset platforms based on MediaTek's MT6139 and Othello®-G transceivers. MediaTek is a provider of GSM/GPRS...