Semiconductors

Inside its Silicon Valley wafer factory, Linear Technology has installed wireless sensors to monitor gas cylinders used in the manufacturing process and alert managers when to replace them. The chipmaker had little trouble selecting which sensors...

Infineon Technologies is on schedule to complete its acquisition of Wolfspeed, a former Cree division that builds power and radio frequency chips, according to a regulatory filing released by Cree last week. The companies are aiming to close ...

An industry organization has announced plans to offer a certification program for tags using near-field communication chips, which can share short, secretive messages with compatible smartphones and chip readers. The NFC Forum said last week t...

Macom has held on tight to left-hand side of its motto, “Partners from RF to Light,” selling wireless components used in things like air traffic control radars and communications infrastructure. But over the last five years, it has started tipp...

These abbreviations stand for two completely different things—antennas and semiconductors—although surprisingly some similarities exist between the two.

These GaAs pHEMT amplifiers provide flat gain and output power across a frequency range from dc to 22 GHz, and can be supplied as chips or in surface-mount packages.

Quantenna has earned a reputation for being first to release wireless chips based on new generations of Wi-Fi. The company, which makes Wi-Fi chips for routers and set-top boxes, was the first to announce hardware based on the 802.11ac version of...