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ON Semiconductor Corp. and Fairchild Semiconductor International Inc. jointly announced that ON Semiconductor successfully completed its previously announced $2.4 billion cash acquisition of Fairchild.

Dr. James (Jim) Komiak will be presenting the keynote for the amplifier track at the EDI CON USA conference, taking place 20-22 September in Boston. We caught up with Jim to learn more about his background and perspective on the state of MMIC design.

Custom MMIC added two new GaAs MMIC switches to its expanding product offerings: the SP3T CMD234C4 and SP5T CMD235C4, both covering DC to 18 GHz.

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (MACOM) introduced two LNAs covering 18 to 31.5 GHz, with a typical noise figure of 2.5 dB, and 2 to 18 GHz, with 1.4 dB noise figure.

MACOM Technology Solutions Inc. (“MACOM”), a leading supplier of high-performance analog RF, microwave, millimeter wave and photonic semiconductor products and components, today introduced two wideband amplifiers, the MAAM-011229, a Low Noise Amplifier, and the MAAM-011206, a Darlington amplifier, to its growing portfolio of high-performance MMICs.

Wolfspeed, A Cree Company and a leading global supplier of GaN-on-SiC high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) and monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) with best-in-class reliability, announces their complete lineup of high efficiency, high gain, and wide bandwidth C-Band radar parts with the market introduction of the new CGHV59070 GaN HEMT for C-Band radar systems.

NXP is supplying a 300 W, 32 V LDMOS power transistor for Midea's new solid-state microwave oven. Midea is a major consumer household appliance manufacturer in China.

WIN Semiconductors dropped its fiscal Q3 revenue outlook to a low single-digit decline from Q2, compared to the previous outlook of a single-digit increase. August revenue was NT$ 1.2 billion ($38 million), a 24 percent increase from the prior year and down 1.7 percent from the prior quarter.

Custom MMIC, a leading developer of performance driven monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs), has added two new packaged driver amplifiers to their expanding product offerings, the CMD232C3 and the CMD231C3.

Skyworks introduced two new Wi-Fi switches that are ideal for WLAN networks, repeaters, ISM band radios, Bluetooth® systems, smartphones, and connectivity modules.  The SKY13585-679LF is a single-pole, double-throw (SPDT) switch intended for 1 to 6GHz applications.