Manufacturing/Services

RFMD Expands Foundry Services Offerings

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD) announced the company has added its Gallium Arsenide (GaAs) technology to RFMD's foundry services portfolio and will begin providing a full suite of GaAs Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor (PHEMT) technologies to customers of its Foundry Services business unit. Specifically, RFMD will make available...
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MILCOM 2010 Expands Speakers List

US Army Lieutenant General Dennis L. Via, director of command, control, communications and computer (C4) systems (J6), the Joint Staff, will be the luncheon speaker at MILCOM 2010 on Monday, November 1. He is the principal advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on all C4...
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TriQuint Names VIPER RF as Design Resource

VIPER RF has entered into a co-marketing agreement with TriQuint , through which VIPER RF will offer design support and specialized RF expertise to help customers develop chips using TriQuint's process technologies and design tools. Specializing in microwave and RFIC design and development, VIPER RF is a UK consultancy...
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USA ETSI Meeting Reinforces Global Importance of M2M

The growing recognition of the global significance of machine-to-machine (M2M) communications was demonstrated in the first meeting outside Europe of the M2M technical committee of the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI). The meeting of the committee, which defines the operation of future M2M communications and the efficient integration onto...
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Growing Role for Single-chip Processors in Handsets

The predicted demise of dedicated, single-chip solutions for mobile phones has been exaggerated, according to ABI Research Vice President Kevin Burden. “The push in recent cellular handset design has also been to combine as many radios as possible on a single chip. These multi-function Combo ICs have gotten all...
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Sabritec Launches Passive Equalization Technology

Sabritec , a highly integrated engineering and manufacturing company providing special interconnect solutions for military, aerospace, telecom, space, test and measurement, and commercial applications, has introduced a new passive equalizer technology. The Sabritec passive equalizer (patent pending) is designed to fit into a size 8 Twinax or Quadrax contact...
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