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Company History Anritsu Company is the American subsidiary of Anritsu Corporation, a global provider of innovative communications solutions for more than 110 years. Anritsu is a global leader in the telecommunications, optical and wireless industries through its diverse product offerings ranging from test and measurement solutions to high-speed devices...

Company History Mitsubishi was founded by Yataro Iwasaki in 1870. He began by leasing three steamships, thus founding a transport company and establishing Mitsubishi with a firm base in the shipping industry. Iwasaki chose the three diamond-mark as the emblem for his company. In 1921, when Mitsubishi Shipbuilding Co....

Company History Microwave Journal published its first issue in July of 1958. Founder and Publisher William Bazzy declared that “Our objective is simply to offer a forum to the industry and be the means of communication for the people in this segment of the electronic field.” Led by Editor...

Narda Microwave: 55 years strong In February 1953, just a few months after The Saddlemen became Bill Haley and His Comets, four design engineers armed with a $20,000 engineering services contract formed Nassau Research & Development Associates. From these inauspicious beginnings in the back of a machine shop in...

Company History In 1991, William (Bill) J. Pratt, Powell T. Seymour and Jerry D. Neal founded RF Micro Devices® in Greensboro, North Carolina. Their mission was to bring gallium arsenide (GaAs) heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT) technology to the burgeoning wireless communications semiconductor marketplace, also in its early stages of...

Company History: TNO Defence, Security and Safety provides innovative contributions towards the advance of comprehensive security and is a strategic partner of the Dutch Ministry of Defence, with the objective of expanding the defence knowledge-base. We employ this acquired knowledge for and together with contractors. The company focuses on...

Last week’s microwave news included a healthy number of contract and agreement type announcements, but was pretty light with new product releases. Here are some of the announcements: Micronetics Inc. announced that its New Jersey-based subsidiary, Microwave Concepts , has received $4 M of advanced funding from a major...

Avago Technologies has launched a new microsite at avagotechwireless.com . This comprehensive resource center has been developed specifically for RF designers who are constantly faced with time-to-market issues and the need to quickly find the right RF solution to shorten their design cycle. The new wireless portal includes product...

The news for the first week of July was relatively slow compared to all the happenings announced during the week of IMS. Among the press releases, news from EDA vendors AWR and Agilent, test equipment manufacturer Cascade and defense sub-contractors Comtech, Trak, Saab and Sensis stood out. The following...

Following the announcement of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between NXP Semiconductors and Thomson on 14 February this year, the two companies announced on 27 June that they have signed a definitive agreement on the transaction to combine their can tuner module operations in a joint venture. NXP will...