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The International Microwave Symposium (IMS), to be held May 23-28 at the Anaheim Convention Center, Anaheim, CA, will feature some 250 technical papers presented in over five dozen sessions representing the latest research in the field from around the world and organized in four technical tracks: Microwave Field and...

The Honorable Zachary J. Lemnios, Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E) for the United States Department of Defense, will be the plenary session speaker on Tuesday, May 25, at the upcoming IEEE MTT 2010 International Microwave Symposium (IMS). Hailed as the “Pentagon’s geek-in-chief” by Wired Magazine , Lemnios...

Planar Monolithics Industries (PMI) and AmpliTech are excited to announce the collaboration of their combined product offering, engineering skills and marketing efforts. AmpliTech is the vendor of choice for numerous Tier 1 and Tier 2 mil/space concerns requiring a wide variety of complex amplifiers with mission-critical specifications. PMI has...

Mimix Broadband Inc. , a supplier of high performance gallium arsenide (GaAs) semiconductors from DC to 50 GHz for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications, commemorates its 10 th year of business in 2010. The company will celebrate the occasion throughout the year, including at the 2010 IEEE MTT-S International...

Analog Devices Inc. (ADI) announced two new RFICs for broadband communications systems that reduce component count by more than 75 percent, without compromising performance. The ADRF6655 active mixer or ADRF6510 dual programmable filter and VGA (variable gain amplifier) integrate multiple functions and discrete devices into a single monolithic chip,...

Thanks to rapid growth in the high-end server, notebook, mobile handset and wired communication segments, the GaN power management semiconductor market is expected to reach $183.6 million in revenue by 2013, up from virtually nil in 2010, according to iSuppli Corp. iSuppli believes that during the past two years,...

e2v is demonstrating its long experience in obsolescence mitigation through an agreement with Freescale Semiconductor to extend the life of 68K-series microprocessors for military, aerospace, commercial and industrial markets. The company will ensure long-term availability of the microprocessor line by continuing manufacture for all markets following discontinuance of these...

MWJ attended the Int'l CTIA 2010 show in Las Vegas and here is a wrap up of the event and RF/microwave products we saw companies showing off at the exhibition including video highlights from the RF/microwave Zone.

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD), a leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, announced it is teaming with Ember Corp. to introduce ZigBee® front-end modules (FEM) for smart grid applications that give utilities and consumers more control over how they monitor...