Articles by RFMD

RFMD awarded $9.7M Air Force contract to produce MM Wave GaN integrated circuits

RFMD, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, announced it has signed a $9.7 million agreement with the Manufacturing and Industrial Technologies Directorate within the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) to transfer and produce a 0.14 micron Gallium Nitride (GaN) monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) technology. The technology will be scaled to 6-inch diameter wafers using RFMD's industry-leading 6-inch GaN-on-Silicon Carbide (SiC) manufacturing line.


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RFMD wins CableFAX Tech Award for Green Technology

RFMD, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, announced that its Gallium Nitride (GaN) amplifier family for the new DOCSIS 3.1 CATV networking standard has won the CableFAX Tech Award for Green Technology. CableFAX's Green Technology Award recognizes technology that helps cable companies and program distributors cut energy consumption in equipment installed at the headend and/or in equipment distributed to residential and business customers.

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RFMD to showcase rapidly expanding Portfolio of RF solutions at MWC 2014

RF Micro Devices Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, announced the company will present its expanding portfolio of industry-leading radio frequency (RF) solutions for smartphones, tablets and other broadband mobile devices at the 2014 Mobile World Congress (MWC 2014), to be held February 24 to February 27, 2014, in Barcelona, Spain.


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RFMD earns Samsung's quality grand award as best quality supplier

RFMD, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, announced that Samsung has presented RFMD with its Quality Grand Award at a ceremony held last week at Samsung Electronics' smartphone manufacturing operations in Gumi, South Korea. The award recognizes RFMD's superior execution in product quality and customer satisfaction and was presented to RFMD on behalf of its Cellular Products Group (CPG) team. 


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RFMD teams with NC State on $70M DoE power electronics development award

RFMD, a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, announced that it will play a key role in developing power electronics to support the next generation of clean energy in the U.S. RFMD is a foundry and product design/development partner to North Carolina State (NC State) University's Next Generation Power Electronics Innovation Institute, which was awarded a 5-year $70 million contract from the Department of Energy to lead next generation power electronics manufacturing.


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RFMD's ET PAs and antenna control solutions enhance power efficiency of new marquee Android smartphone

RFMD Inc., a global leader in the design and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency solutions, announced that the newest flagship Android smartphone incorporates its envelope tracking (ET) power amplifiers (PAs), antenna switch module, diversity switches and antenna tuner. This fifth generation smartphone from a leading Korea-based manufacturer is the slimmest and fastest Android phone to date and the first new smartphone to benefit from the improved power efficiency of RFMD's ET power amplifiers and antenna control solutions.


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