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RF Micro Devices and TriQuint Semiconductor announced a definitive merger agreement under which the companies will combine in an all-stock transaction to become a $2 billion company.

Fox Electronics, a leading global supplier of frequency control solutions and an IDT company, now offers the low power FTP Series, a surface mount OCXO featuring a compact footprint of only 14.3 x 9.3 x 6.7 mm and power consumption of only 0.6 W maximum.

Crystek's CVCO55CC-2700-2700 voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) operates at 2700 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 ~4.5 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -118 dBc/Hz @ 10 KHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +7 dBm.

M/A-COM Technology Solutions Inc. ("MACOM"), a leading supplier of high performance analog, RF, microwave and millimeter wave products, announced that it has acquired Nitronex LLC, a leader in the design and manufacture of gallium nitride (GaN) based RF solutions. The acquisition of Nitronex is expected to provide MACOM with fundamental and innovative GaN-on-Silicon epitaxial and pendeoepitaxial semiconductor process technology and materials for use in RF applications.

Comtech Telecommunications Corp. announced that its Santa Clara, California-based subsidiary, Comtech Xicom Technology, Inc., has been awarded a contract totaling $1.4 million from a major system integrator to supply rack-mount, high-power amplifiers ("HPAs"). The HPAs will be used in an expansion of a system that relays military satellite communications around the world and that is already using similar Comtech Xicom HPAs.

Richardson RFPD Inc. announces immediate availability and full design support capabilities for a new 0.2 to 1.0 GHz, N-connectorized low noise amplifier (LNA) from Wavelex.

Jackson Labs Technologies Inc. announced the availability of its breakthrough product DROR-II, a 10MHz/5MHz/1PPS GPS-Disciplined Atomic Frequency and Timing Reference (GPSDO).

Crystek's CVCO55CC-3850-3850 voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) operates at 3850 MHz with a control voltage range of 0.5 ~ 4.5 V. This VCO features a typical phase noise of -110 dBc/Hz @ 10KHz offset and has excellent linearity. Output power is typically +7 dBm.

TriQuint's TGA2594 is a Ka-Band power amplifier fabricated on TriQuint's 0.15um GaN on SiC process. Operating between 27 and 31 GHz, it achieves 5 W saturated output power with an efficiency of 28% PAE, and 23 dB small signal gain. Along with excellent linear characteristics, the TGA2594 is ideally suited to support both commercial and defense related satellite communications.

Custom MMIC is adding two new low noise amplifiers, the CMD167 and the CMD167P3, to their growing product line. Both are ideally suited for EW and communications systems where small die size and low power consumption are needed.