Gary Lerude, Microwave Journal Technical Editor

With Qorvo completing the acquisition of Custom MMIC, Microwave Journal wanted to understand how Custom MMIC will merge into Qorvo. So we asked Roger Hall, general manager of Qorvo’s High Performance Solutions (HPS) business, and Paul Blount, the founder of Custom MMIC.

In an ironic twist, Cree has purchased Infineon’s RF power business for €345 million, a year after Infineon’s attempt to buy Cree’s Wolfspeed RF business was blocked by the U.S. government, citing national security concerns.

After years of talking about 5G at Mobile World Congress, it's here and happening faster than expected. Nokia CEO Rajeev Suri shared his perspective on the eve of the 2018 conference, including five predictions for the rest of the year.

MACOM and STMicroelectronics (ST) are teamed to commercialize MACOM’s RF GaN on Si technology, with ST becoming a second source and adding capacity to MACOM’s GaN fab in Lowell, Massachusetts. A formal agreement between the two companies gives MACOM exclusive rights to use its technology for mobile phone, wireless base station and commercial telecommunications infrastructure applications and ST a license to use the technology for RF power applications, such as solid-state cooking, automotive spark plugs and industrial lighting.

Nokia will supply 5G infrastructure equipment to NTT DOCOMO, Japan's largest mobile operator, to help DOCOMO evolve its existing LTE network to 5G by 2020.