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DecaWave , the fabless semiconductor company, has partnered with the Dublin Institute of Technology's Antenna & High Frequency Research Group (AHFR) for antenna design research expertise for its ScenSor chip. The resulting antennas are optimized, but are fully customizable to client technologies and application needs and specifications. The ScenSor...

Plextek , the electronics and communications design consultancy, based in Cambridge, UK, has launched a range of strategic activities to cover environmental advice and evaluation. The company is now able to help clients in communications equipment and services markets to evaluate technology options that both benefit the environment and...

Dynamac Inc. , a full service precision CNC machine shop emphasizing high-speed CNC robotic machining, announced the addition of the latest in sophisticated high speed robotic vertical mills providing 24/7 "lights out" production. Dynamac offers two decades of experience in machining the housings/covers for amplifiers, attenuators and oscillators for...

Vendors will ship $4 B in Wi-Fi radio chips in 2013, most of these for cellphones, notebooks, netbooks, infrastructure, home entertainment systems and wireless gaming consoles. At the same time, adoption of 802.11n MIMO with multiple transmit streams will help boost the market for Wi-Fi power amplifier modules to...

DENSO Corp. , Freescale Semiconductor and TRW Automotive Holdings Corp. have joined together to form an industry consortium to drive further development and deployment of the Distributed Systems Interface (DSI) standard. DSI is the automotive industry’s most widely adopted bus standard used to connect remotely placed sensors to the...

Although spending on RF power semiconductors in wireless infrastructure markets has continued to stagnate, other markets – notably the military – are seeing increased activity. Also, according to a new study from ABI Research, gallium nitride – long seen as a promising new “material of choice” for RF power...

The global economic meltdown slowed year-on-year GaAs industry growth from its previous forecast of 9 percent down to 6 percent in 2008. With the market projected to contract again 5 percent year-on-year in 2009, gains made in 2008 will be effectively wiped out and the GaAs industry is projected...

Tata Elxsi Ltd. , part of India’s Tata Group, and Full Spectrum Inc. , headquartered in Menlo Park, CA, announced a strategic partnership to expand the market for Full Spectrum’s FullMAX Broadband Wireless System for smart grid communications. FullMAX is a “Private WiMAX” solution that creates a cost effective,...

HRL Laboratories LLC announced that it has partnered with the National Secure Manufacturing Center at the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Kansas City Plant (KCP) to provide multiple-project wafer services to the Department of Defense (DoD) Trusted Foundry Program. The National Secure Manufacturing Center provides the national security community secure...

In February 2009, ABI Research found that dual-mode cellular/Wi-Fi handset shipments were set to double between 2008 and 2010. With the latter date fast approaching, ABI Research analysts have confirmed that a similar pattern will hold true – or even accelerate – for the period 2009-2011. This year is...