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SUSS MicroTec Test Systems has entered into a strategic alliance with MPI Corp. and Chain Logic International Corp. of Taiwan. The cooperation includes a relationship among the organizations on a worldwide basis, covering channel distribution of semiconductor test related technologies and products, bi-directional outsourcing as well as development projects...

IEEE , the world's largest technical professional society, is commemorating its 125 th Anniversary this year with a variety of activities surrounding the theme of "Celebrating 125 Years of Engineering the Future." Major anniversary events include the first IEEE Presidents' Change the World Competition for college and university students...

Fastrax , a supplier of high performance GPS receivers, GPS software solutions and tracking systems for location-aware devices, and SiGe Semiconductor , a global supplier of products that are enabling wireless multimedia in a wide variety of computing, entertainment and mobile systems, announced that Fastrax has selected SiGe's SE4120...

United Monolithic Semiconductors (UMS), the European leader in microwave and mm-wave MMIC solutions, has opened a new design and customer support center in the US. Based in the New England area, the center will contribute to the expansion of the company’s offering with components operating from DC to 100...

Paratek and STMicroelectronics have entered into a strategic relationship to supply RF tunable products to mobile wireless markets. The two companies have been cooperating to advance the next generation of Paratek’s ParaScan™ materials technology for high-volume manufacturing and to jointly develop tunable products that improve Total Radiated Power (TRP)...

Satellites are regularly launched into Earth orbit to provide TV signals, communications services, geographic location services or to scan the planet for geological data. Some are sent to investigate neighboring planets, which just like those on timeless missions into remote corners of our solar system send data about their...

STMicroelectronics has become the first European company to join the Microsystems Industrial Group (MIG) industry consortium at the Microsystems Technology Laboratories (MTL), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Group is an exclusive industry consortium that was founded in the 1980s to support Microsystems Technology Laboratories infrastructure and provide direction to...

2009 will see the introduction of a new class of wireless communications chip that features dual-mode support for both WiMAX and LTE, according to ABI Research. The thrust of demand for such chips comes from those wireless device makers seeking to reduce the number of their SKUs; they will...

Skyworks Solutions Inc. , an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, introduced a multi-mode and multi-band frequency division duplex (FDD)/time division duplex (TDD) power amplifier module (PAM) for fourth generation (4G) long term evolution (LTE) applications. Skyworks’ PAM is also the first product...

Hesse & Knipps , a manufacturer of high-speed, fine pitch wedge bonders for the back-end semiconductor industry, will partner with MEW Consulting , recently founded by Michael Whitehead, to provide technical support for third-party wedge and wire bonding equipment being phased out by the original manufacturers. Through the partnership,...