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Buoyed by Apple's iPhone launch and demand for IoT and GaN components, Qorvo's revenue grew modestly in the third quarter of fiscal 2018 to $846 million, up 3 percent sequentially and 2 percent year-over-year. The infrastructure and defense business achieved record revenue of $203 million. While the mobile products unit benefitted from the latest iPhone models, revenue was down 2 percent year-over-year.

Skyworks Solutions Inc. announced that its new portfolio of 802.11ax wireless connectivity solutions are being leveraged by Broadcom in their recently launched Max WiFi reference platforms.

Duisburg Germany has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Huawei to work together on smart city development.

Viasat continues testing the 300 Gbps ViaSat-2 satellite and plans full commercial service to launch in February (2018), despite some antenna spot beams performing differently than during ground testing.

Qorvo is enabling the expansion of distributed Wi-Fi solutions in the home through a portfolio of 802.11ax products that improves Wi-Fi coverage, enables smaller devices and reduces costs.

AT&T plans to introduce mobile 5G service in a dozen markets by late this year (2018), saying it expects to be the first U.S. operator to do so. In a release, the company updated its other efforts to improve connectivity through fixed wireless access and IoT services.