NEC Electronics announces merger
Feb 2, 2006
NEC Electronics Corp. has announced that it will merge its wholly owned subsidiary, NEC Compound Semiconductor Devices, Ltd., back into the parent company, effective April 1, 2006...
RoHS compliance help
Feb 2, 2006
RF Design presents an archive of product announcements from the RF Design Bulletin newsletter....
Ultra wideband alliances move apart and forward
Jan 26, 2006
By Mark Valentine, Technical Editor Despite the recent vote to disband by the UWB IEEE task group, IEEE 802.15.3a, the two member alliances plan to seek certification from different standards bodies as they venture to market with their two different UWB technologies...
Fabless Magnolia Broadband gets new funding
Jan 26, 2006
To help fund commercialization of DiversityPlus technology in the United States and Korea, Magnolia Broadband has received a new round of investments...
TechnoConcepts chooses Jazz for foundry service
Jan 26, 2006
TechnoConcepts, Inc. has selected Jazz Semiconductor, an independent wafer foundry located in Newport Beach, California, to fabricate its True Software Radio chips...
New-generation RF test instruments tap SDR technology
Jan 19, 2006
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director At this week’s MTT-S Radio & Wireless symposium in San Diego, Calif., Keithley Instruments launched an innovative line of RF test instruments...
Digital TV chip premieres
Jan 18, 2006
Texas Instruments has announced that initial Hollywood DTV single-chip solutions for mobile phones are now being delivered to TI customers who manufacture wireless handsets. The chips integrate the mobile TV tuner and demodulator into one piece of silicon using a standard 90 nm digital process....
Hardware/software alliance targets WiMAX
Jan 18, 2006
ArrayComm and picoChip have forged an alliance under which ArrayComm’s Network MIMO software will be incorporated into the PHY of picoChip’s flexible wireless solution. ...
China’s IC consumption surpasses U.S. and Japan
Jan 12, 2006
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director With a continuing shift in manufacturing and rising demand for electronic consumer goods and mobile communications gadgets, China became the largest consumer of integrated circuits last year. ...
ST, Ember partnership to develop ZiGBee solutions
Jan 11, 2006
STMicroelectronics and Ember Corp. have agreed to jointly develop complete solutions for the fast-growing ZigBee wireless networking market. ...
High-frequency package chosen for device life testing
Jan 11, 2006
StratEdge has announced that one of its DC to 23 GHz low cost commercial package has been adopted by Accel-RF as a platform for life testing of high-frequency devices. ...
Motorola acquires RF technologies from Broadband Innovations
Jan 11, 2006
To strengthen its modular cable modem termination system and channel bonding solutions, Motorola, Inc. has acquired next-generation cable network technology assets from Broadband Innovations, Inc., a privately held San Diego-based developer of RF and digital technologies. ...
Wisair, Intellon demonstrate distribution of high-definition content
Jan 5, 2006
At CES Las Vegas this week, powerline communications and HomePlug-compliant ICs supplier Intellon Corp., and ultra wideband and wireless USB chipset solutions provider Wisair together have demonstrated the distribution of high-definition multimedia streams throughout the home...
TI plans to acquire Chipcon to expand its RF reach
Dec 21, 2005
By Ashok Bindra, Editorial Director Dallas-based semiconductor giant Texas Instruments Inc. has announced its intention to acquire Oslo, Norway-based short-range, low-power wireless RF transceiver designer and supplier Chipcon AS to enhance its ability to offer customers complete short-range wireless solutions for consumer, home and building automation applications...
Nanometer CMOS chip design takes PSP model route
Dec 21, 2005
Philips Research and Pennsylvania State University have announced that their jointly developed Penn State Philips CMOS transistor model has been selected by the Compact Model Council as the industry-wide standard for future CMOS chip designs...
RF front-end reference design eases multi-tuner solutions
Dec 21, 2005
Anadigics Inc. has readied RF front-end reference designs for multituner applications, such as televisions, set-top boxes, and digital video recorders (DVRs)/personal video recorders (PVRs)...
ST joins EWC to speed IEEE 802.11n development for handheld devices
Dec 21, 2005
STMicroelectronics has joined the Enhanced Wireless Consortium, a coalition of WiFi industry leaders formed in October 2005 to accelerate and promote development of the IEEE 802.11n high-speed wireless standard, which promises to more than quadruple the performance of today’s wireless local-area networks ...
