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Freescale Semiconductor announced the new Airfast RF power solutions designed to supply the world's wireless infrastructure equipment manufacturers with RF power products that take performance and energy efficiency to new levels. The Airfast portfolio is the next generation of Freescale's RF LDMOS products engineered to deliver significant performance improvements...

M/A-COM Technology Solutions announced the appointment of Glen Fields as Director, Aerospace and Defense, reporting to Suja Ramnath, Vice President and General Manager of M/A-COM Tech's market-facing businesses. Fields is now responsible for leading M/A-COM Tech's aerospace and defense initiatives. Fields most recently served as Area Director for M/A-COM...

RFMW Europe announces the addition of a new office in France. According to Peter Saxby, Managing Director – Europe, “We can now consider ourselves truly pan-European and we all look forward to helping RFMW and our suppliers meet the various challenges of RF and microwave component engineering and supply...

Microsemi Corp. , a leading provider of semiconductor solutions differentiated by power, security, reliability and performance, announced a design guide for developing next-generation high voltage, high power systems based on the company's unique digital radio frequency (DRF) family of hybrid modules. These systems are used in applications including semiconductor...

Custom MMIC Design Services Inc. (CMDS) announced it was awarded a 2011 Army Achievement Award in recognition of its innovative work on high efficiency, low power, low noise MMIC amplifiers for SATCOM applications. Paul Blount, President and CEO of CMDS, accepted the award on behalf of the company at...

Custom MMIC has been awarded its second Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) Phase II contract from the United States Army to develop millimeter-wave, high linearity, high power amplifiers on Gallium Nitride (GaN) for satellite communication systems (SATCOM). “We are excited to be working with the...

RF Micro Devices Inc. unveiled the highly integrated RF6555 ZigBee® front-end module (FEM). The RF6555 is RFMD's newest ZigBee FEM and is optimized for smart energy/advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) applications providing utilities and consumers more control over how they monitor and save energy. ZigBee is a global low power...

GigOptix Inc. , a supplier of semiconductor and optical components that enable high speed information streaming, announced that at a special Endwave Corp. stockholders meeting, the stockholders voted to approve the acquisition of Endwave by GigOptix Inc. At the meeting, holders of more than 55 percent of the outstanding...