BOULDER, CO—Freewave Technologies, a designer and manufacturer of spread-spectrum radios, has been named to Deloitte's prestigious Colorado Technology Fast 50 Program. The Fast 50 is a ranking of the 50 fastest-growing technology, media, telecommunications, and life-sciences companies in Colorado by Deloitte & Touche USA LLP, a professional services organization. Rankings are based on the percentage revenue growth over five years from 2001 to 2005.
CARLSBAD, CA—Palomar Technologies announced that it has been recertified as meeting the requirements of ISO 9001/ANSIASQ Q9001:2000 and is registered by SGS. Palomar was assessed and certified as meeting the requirements of ISO 9001:2000 for design, manufacturing, sales, servicing, and marketing of automated assembly equipment serving the communications, microwave and RF, semiconductor, optoelectronic, wireless, disk drive, automotive, aerospace and defense, and medical industries.
MORGAN HILL, CA—Anritsu Corp. has been awarded the 2006 Test & Measurement Global Excellence of the Year Award by Frost & Sullivan. The award is bestowed upon the company which has demonstrated global excellence in given business functions, such as sales, marketing, customer service, technology innovation, product quality, supply-chain management, and growth strategy.
GREENSBORO, NC—RF Micro Devices has announced that Gartner, Inc. has listed RFMD as the world's seventh-largest supplier of subscriber RF and baseband semiconductor application-specific devices, based on global revenue. RFMD advanced two positions, compared to its previous ranking as the number-nine supplier in Gartner's prior year report.
According to the report, entitled "Market Share: Application-Specific Semiconductors for Mobile and Cordless Phones, Worldwide, 2005," Gartner also concluded that RFMD held the number-one worldwide position in power-amplifier (PA) modules, with a market share that is more than twice its next largest competitor, as well as the number-two worldwide position in RF application-specific devices.
WARREN, NJ—ANADIGICS, Inc. announced that total product shipments over the company's history have surpassed 750 million units. ANADIGICS' RF products enable a wide range of consumer and enterprise devices including mobile handsets, smart phones, data cards, WLAN notebook computers, and CATV set-top boxes. ANADIGICS' customers include OEMs and ODMs in both the wireless and broadband markets.