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June 2008 [Communications] Is Bluetooth And NFC A Marriage Made In Heaven? WELLINGBOROUGH, UK—For some time, the combination of Bluetooth technology and Near Field Communication (NFC) has been seen as the perfect match of short-range wireless technologies. Despite the talk, though, these technologies are by no means ready to drive off together into a golden sunset. Still, the view of the two technologies as complementary is well founded. According to IMS Research, Bluetooth already is well established in the market: More than half of the cellular... June 2008 [Industry News] Frost & Sullivan Honors AVX As Company Of The Year MYRTLE BEACH, SC—AVX Corp., a manufacturer of advanced electronic components and interconnect solutions, has received the 2008 Global Capacitor Company of the Year Award from Frost & Sullivan. That global consulting company empowers clients to create a growthfocused culture that generates, evaluates, and implements effective growth strategies. The Global Capacitor Company of the Year Award is based on many criteria including business development, competitive... June 2008 [Test & Measurement] RFID Testbed Measures Multiple Tags At Once ATLANTA, GA—Researchers have designed a system that is capable of simultaneously measuring hundreds of radio-frequencyidentification (RFID) tags and rapidly testing new RFID-tag prototypes. According to Gregory Durgin, an assistant professor at the Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, “This testbed allows us to measure the signal strength of tags hidden behind other tags and to rapidly test unique antenna and multiple... June 2008 [Industry News] Kudos MOSCOW, ID—Comtech AHA Corp., a wholly owned subsidiary of Comtech Telecommunications Corp., has surpassed the 20-year milestone as a provider of integrated circuits (ICs) and intellectual-property (IP) cores that implement forward-error-correction (FEC) technologies. The company was originally founded as Advanced Hardware Architectures (AHA) in 1988 based on error-correction technology developed by researchers at the University of Idaho for NASA. The founding... June 2008 [Industry News] Financial News THROUGH AN AGREEMENT WITH M/A-COM, Cobham plc will purchase M/A-COM’s radio-frequency components and subsystems business—one of the largest original-equipment manufacturers (OEMs) of microwave subsystems in the world—from Tyco Electronics for US $425 million in cash. That price will total an effective US $380 million after an allowable tax expense relating to good-will amortization. This transaction represents another step forward in Cobham’s growth... June 2008 [Industry News] Company News CONTRACTS Hughes Network Systems, LLC—Signed an agreement with Globalstar, Inc. under which Hughes will design, manufacture, and implement the next-generation Radio Access Network (RAN) comprising gateway equipment at Globalstar’s worldwide locations with an option to expand to 30 locations. The company also will design, manufacture, and deliver satellite air-interface chips to be a part of the User Terminal... June 2008 [People] People Nitronex Names Sadler Principal Engineer DR. ROBERT A. SADLER has been named principal engineer for Nitronex. He has more than 27 years of industry experience in compound semiconductor device and process engineering. He most recently served as technical director, devices, for Northrop Grumman Corp., where he was responsible for the development of GaN technology. He also previously worked at RF Micro Devices as a principal scientist... June 2008 [Education] Educational Meetings SHORT COURSES Besser Associates Short Courses Wireless Transceiver Design Techniques Aug. 11-15, 2008 (San Jose, CA) RF Transceiver Architecture, Design and Evaluation Nov.17-21, 2008 (Dallas, TX) Applied RF Techniques for Modern Radio Design Nov. 17-21, 2008 (Dallas, TX ) Wireless System Design and Simulation Dec. 8-12, 2008... May 2008 [Devices & ICs] IDS Microchip Revolutionizes RFID Labeling/Tracking WOLLERAU, SWITZERLAND—A radio-frequencyidentification (RFID) chip is promising to make it practical for companies to automatically track, monitor, time-stamp, and record information about goods in any supply-chain or cold-chain transport on land, sea, or sky. Such goods may range from expensive fragile components, medical goods, and pharmaceuticals to bags of bananas . This innovation in affordable, automatic data-logging RFID applications hails from IDS Microchip... May 2008 [Communications] American Radio Relay League Petitions Federal Communications Commission The American Radio Relay League, Inc., has petitioned on behalf of licensed amateur radio operators for the review of two orders of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) promulgating a rule to regulate the use of the radio spectrum by Access Broadband over Power Line (Access BPL) operators. The FCC concluded that existing safeguards combined with new protective measures required by the rule will prevent harmful interference to licensees from Access BPL radio... May 2008 [Commercial] Mobile-Device Market Exceeds Expectations In First Quarter LONDON, ENGLAND—According to ABI Research, operators and distributors continued to top up their inventories in the first quarter of this year after a strong fourth quarter of 2007. “Year on year, 1Q 2008 was up 13.7 percent. But 2Q 2008 is likely to be softer than in previous years,” said ABI Research vice president Jake Saunders. Shipment volumes in the developed markets have softened slightly due to the credit crisis. Yet emerging markets like Asia-Pacific,... May 2008 [Industry News] Kudos WOBURN, MA—Skyworks Solutions, Inc. congratulated Samsung on winning two FEMTO cell awards. Jang Young Shil, which is presented by the Maeil Business Newspaper—an economic daily in Korea—and the Korea Industrial Technology Association (KOITA)—operated by the Korean government—is granted based on technological importance, originality, and economic value. In addition, Samsung was awarded the International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) Best of Innovations 2008 in the... May 2008 [Conferences] IMS Displays Microwave Advances In Atlanta MICROWAVE WEEK has become a true meeting place for members of the highfrequency industry. Part continuing education, part product showcase, and part social networking, this week-long series of events is scheduled for the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, GA from June 15-20, 2008. Organized by members of the IEEE’s Microwave Theory & Techniques Society (MTT-S), it includes the 2008 International Microwave Symposium (IMS), the 2008 radio-frequency-integrated-circuit... May 2008 [Industry News] STMicroelectronics And NXP Merge Businesses NXP (GENEVA, SWITZERLAND) and STMicroelectronics have agreed to combine key wireless operations to form a joint-venture company with strong relationships with all major handset manufacturers. The new company will have the scale to better meet customer needs in 2G, 2.5G, 3G, multimedia, connectivity, and all future wireless technologies. Specifically, the company will be well positioned for Universal Mobile Telecommunication System (UMTS), the emerging 3G... May 2008 [Industry News] Company News CONTRACTS Elcom Technologies—Received a contract for $1 million from a major US aerospace-defense military contractor for a VME-based synthesized RF source and synthesized broadband downconverter. Elcom was selected due to its ability to integrate a synthesizer and tuner in a VME package. This recurring contract will require support through 2009. Etihad Atheeb Telecommunication Company (Atheeb) and ... May 2008 [Industry News] People Raytheon Recognizes Employees As Missile-Defense Pioneers MICHAEL T. BORKOWSKI, technical director, Raytheon RF Components, and DAVID G. LAIGHTON, former chief engineer, Raytheon RF Components received the Missile Defense Agency’s Technology Pioneer Award at the 6th Annual US Missile Defense Conference in Washington, D.C. Borkowski and Laighton were honored for the development of affordable and reliable X-band, solid-state,... May 2008 [Education] Educational Meetings ICCE-Integration and Commercialization of Micro and Nanosystems International Conferences & Exhibitions June 3-5 (Hong Kong, China) Internet: www.asmeconferences.org/MicroNano08 Emerging Telecom Market Forums: BRIC Opportunities June 5-6, 2008 • (Washington, D.C.) Freescale's Technology Forum (FTF) 2008 June... April 2008 [Components] European Consortium Increases Speed Limit Of Silicon-Based Transistor PARIS, FRANCE—A European consortium, led by STMicroelectronics, held the kick-off meeting of the EU-funded project DOTFIVE and titled “Towards 0.5 TeraHertz Silicon/Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar technology (SiGe HBT).” The consortium is setting out to develop advanced silicon-based bipolar transistors with a maximum operating frequency of 0.5 THz or 500 GHz needed for future millimeter-wave and TeraHertz communication, radar, imaging, and sensing... April 2008 [Industry News] Kudos LOS ANGELES, CA—Silvus Technologies received funding under the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) MNM (Mobile Networked MIMO) program in 2007. The funding covers work on phase two and potentially phase three of the program for MIMO development. Silvus Technologies was chosen as the only performer on the program. The contract is valued up to $15.5 million for both phases. DARPA is looking to multiple input/multiple output (MIMO) radio technology,... April 2008 [Communications] WiMAX And LTE Fight For The US Broadband Mobile Market MARAVEDIS, a research and analysis firm that focuses on BWA technologies including WiMAX, LTE, 802.20, Ultra Mobile Broadband, and Wireless Local Loop, has issued a report. The report focuses on opportunities and challenges for the broadband mobile market in the USA. It offers a comprehensive review of opportunities and challenges for BWA/WiMAX in the US. It also reveals important trends for the mobile broadband industry. Key findings of the report include: ...  prev. page
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