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August 2008 [Industry News] Local Designers Drive Chinese IC Market Growth CHINA—According to iSuppli Corp., sales of semiconductor chips designed in China are surging at a double-digit clip helping to offset slower growth in the country’s previously red-hot IC market as OEMs focus on customizing products for the local market. Led by demand from the wireless communications equipment sector, China’s consumption of semiconductors designed in the country is forecast to rise more than 60 percent by 2012 to $42.1 billion from $25.8 billion ... — Dawn Hightower August 2008 [Industry News] AVX Honored By Arrow At EDS 2008 MYRTLE BEACH SC—AVX Corporation, an international supplier of advanced electronic components, received two awards from Arrow Electronics at the 2008 Electronic Distribution Show (EDS). AVX was presented with the 2007 Largest Passives Supplier Award and the 2007 Largest Dollar Growth in Passives Award. “AVX’s broad product portfolio and outstanding customer service provided the foundation for excellent sales in 2007. We are pleased to honor AVX with the... — Dawn Hightower August 2008 [Industry News] Worldwide BWA/WiMAX Subscriber Base Closes On 2 Million MONTREAL, CANADA—The global BWA/ WiMAX subscriber base increased by 260,246 in the first quarter of 2008, reaching a total of 1,988,246 subscribers, according to the fourth issue of the WiMAXCounts Quarterly Report from Maravedis. “Even with an increase of more than 19% in WiMAX subscribers in the first quarter of 2008, operators are still waiting for the tipping point that will lead to acceleration of WiMAX adoption and deployments,” said... — Dawn Hightower August 2008 [Industry News] Kudos HILLSBORO, OR—TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. an RF frontend product manufacturer and foundry services provider, received the “Northwest 100” award for 2008. The Seattle Times award recognizes the top 100 publicly held companies in the Pacific Northwest by measuring four dimensions of performance over the previous two fiscal years. According to the Seattle Times, to come out on top, a company has to do well on all four factors. DURHAM,... — Dawn Hightower July 2008 [Industry News] Fabless Revenue Grew 16 Percent In First Quarter SAN JOSE, CA—The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) has released the CYQ1 2008 version of its Global Semiconductor Financial Report. The GSA quarterly report includes detailed trend analysis on financial data for fabless, integrated device manufacturer (IDM), pure-play foundry, intellectual property, electronic design automation, design service, and back-end sectors. GSA members can receive the complimentary report and accompanying downloadable Excel... — Dawn Hightower July 2008 [Industry News] China National Space Administration Becomes CCSDS Newest Member Agency RESTON, VA—The China National Space Administration (CNSA) has been accepted as the eleventh full member organization of the Consultative Committee for Space Data Systems (CCSDS). China’s admission to the organization marks the first addition to the membership since 1997. As the leading international organization for space communication standardization, CCSDS relies on its agency members to provide technical engineering support to its working groups. The... — Dawn Hightower July 2008 [Industry News] Celestica Recognizes Murata Electronics In Awards Program SMYRNA, GA—Murata Electronics North America, a manufacturer and designer of ceramic-based passive electronic components and power supply modules, has been recognized as an honouree in the Technical Compliance Award category of the 2007 TotalCost of Ownership (TCOO) Supplier Award program by Celestica. Celestica's awards program recognizes suppliers that support Celestica's overall supply chain goal, which is to reduce the total cost of ownership for... — Dawn Hightower July 2008 [Industry News] Kudos ACTON, MA—Azimuth Systems, a provider of wireless broadband test equipment and channel emulators for WiMAX, 4G and Wi-Fi, announced that its ACE 400WB MIMO Channel Emulator has been awarded the 2008 MITX Technology Customer Impact Award. The MITX Technology Awards, presented by the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange, recognize innovative technologies developed in the New England area. The Customer Impact award honors a technology... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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,... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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... — Dawn Hightower 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,... — Dawn Hightower 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: ... — Dawn Hightower April 2008 [Communications] SUIRG Releases Findings Of Field Test Report On C-Band Sharing PUNTA GORDA, FL—The Satellite Users Interference Reduction Group (SUIRG), a non-profit association, announced the findings of a field test on the compatibility of Fixed Satellite Services (FSS) and WiMAX services sharing the C-band spectrum. The test, conducted in late 2007, demonstrated that WiMax communications pose a significant interference threat to satellite signals transmitted in the C-band frequency. The purpose of the test was to validate previous tests... — Dawn Hightower  prev. page
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