Today's "smart home" suffers from a lack of technology cohesion. Cees Links, GM of wireless connectivity at Qorvo, discusses why Matter, along with Wi-Fi 6/6E, can be the glue...
Qorvo's new compact, high-efficiency RF power amplifier covering 100 to 1,000 MHz facilitates design and reduces parts in sub-1-GHz wireless systems, including GSM and E-GSM bands...
Bulk-acoustic-wave filter technology has become an essential ingredient in enhancing Wi-Fi performance by mitigating interference and optimizing signal integrity.
Understanding how thermal analysis and design is critical to meeting reliability standards for semiconductor technology translates into more robust and reliable RF system designs...
As ultra-wideband technology continues to evolve, it promises to revolutionize vehicle functionality and driving efficiency, plus create a safer, more interconnected driving experience...
These compact devices and modules become final additions for RF radios handling voice, data, and video over a wide range of frequencies and bandwidths.
Adding RF/mmWave communications capabilities to overall system designs has become much easier and cost-effective with modular functional blocks in SiPs, SoCs, and SoMs.
With their optimized output power, gain, and power-added efficiency over their respective frequency ranges, this trio of solid-state power amplifiers supports the growing industry...
There’s no underestimating the importance of filtering in RF system design. This report contains the latest innovations in the art of RF filtering and spectrum management.
By building key components into design kits and application platforms, suppliers give circuit and system designers head starts in getting the most value and performance for their...
Microwaves & RF's newly formed Editorial Advisory Board will give us an additional avenue into gaining industry insights that we can pass along to our audience.
Designers of aerospace and defense electronic systems look to more efficient RFICs and MMICs with increased functionality to achieve solutions with ever-smaller SWaP.
The acquisition expands Qorvo's reach into markets for electric vehicles, industrial power, circuit protection, renewables, and data-center power with a portfolio of more than...
5G infrastructure is growing by leaps and bounds, with more and more capability being added to the system. However, the effectiveness of the solution is strongly based on how ...
The world's largest smartphone vendor is wrestling to win more market share in radio-frequency chips from rivals Qorvo, Skyworks, and Broadcom. These chips are invaluable to getting...
Discrete GaN transistors, whether in die or packaged forms, offer high power density to boost pulsed signals in C-, L-, and S-band radars and communications applications.
Qorvo’s Cees Links discusses where home networks have been, where they are now, and where they’re going, and how Project Connected Home over IP is in the mix.
During this unprecedented disruption, RF technology is helping us find a way through the pandemic. Wireless communications enable us to work even as we stay socially distant.
When it’s time to railroad, you lay rail, and so the industry must adapt. That’s why the International Microwave Symposium, the largest gathering of RF and microwave professionals...
Before we can fully realize the safety and efficiency benefits promised by a shift to autonomous vehicles, designers must first overcome spectrum challenges associated with V2X...
At this year’s show, a couple of mid-sized companies unveiled several new MMICs, showcasing their impressive performance along with the latest advances made in the technology....
From discrete high-power transistors to highly integrated ICs with combinations of analog and digital functions, the 2019 IMS exhibition will provide a good look at the latest...
During a time when defense electronics technology is strong, the industry readies itself for the global adoption of 5G and electronically steered vehicles.
For a function that once required a tube amplifier, semiconductor amplifiers are raising pulsed power levels for radars and other applications at higher frequencies.
These companies used IMS 2018 as an opportunity to unveil the latest monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMICs) to satisfy the needs of designers everywhere.
As the applications extrapolate for wireless devices and interest grows in millimeter-wave frequencies, the RF/microwave industry gathers together with great optimism for the ...
We explain how the process of architecting and building RF systems for 5G and IoT applications can be performed efficiently through accurate RF system simulation with real off...
High-frequency MEMS and MMICs are key components in helping to miniaturize RF/microwave circuit designs, even though they function in completely different ways.
Power-amplifier (PA) designers can take advantage of software that allows them to utilize complex load-pull data sets, thereby streamlining the design process.
Supply modulation techniques such as envelope tracking provide ways to increase the efficiency of power amplifiers such as those used in 5G wireless networks.
Visitors to the RF/microwave industry’s largest conference and exhibition can sample some of the hardware, software, and test-equipment products that are turning 5G and IoT into...
If the mark of critical technology is that companies are willing to sue to protect it, and governments are blocking other countries from buying it, then gallium nitride will only...
The wireless chip that Qorvo released on Tuesday is latest specimen to incorporate multiple radios that connect things like heating systems and light bulbs.
To meet the needs of today’s military, the RF/microwave industry is coming up with flexible, cost-effective solutions that push the technology envelope.
Market trends, such as small-cell infrastructure and broadband applications, are driving suppliers to deliver amplifiers with cutting-edge performance.
GaN has emerged as the leading semiconductor material for high-power microwave switches and amplifiers, although GaAs is still the material of choice for low noise.
Higher power densities and frequencies are pushing packages to their limits, while emerging wireless applications such as IoT and 5G crave lower-cost housings.
The deal is the latest example of large wireless companies buying out smaller competitors that target smart homes. The terms of the deal were not announced.
A large portion of a small industry is set to show its hardware, software, and test equipment at this year’s IMS exhibition in San Francisco’s Moscone Center.
Gallium nitride is exerting its strength in myriad communications applications, and suppliers are trying to keep pace by developing solutions for next-generation systems.
Expect 2016 to be a busy year, as plans are in motion to create technologies with capabilities that push past the boundaries of today’s state-of-the-art solutions.
The New Year is upon us, allowing us to have the opportunity to take a closer look at what the RF/microwave industry will have in store for 2016. While we’ve seen plenty of technology...
With today’s focus on electronic-warfare (EW) capability, the RF/microwave industry is working on satisfying EW requirements in power amplifiers (PAs), low-noise amplifiers (LNAs...
Today’s satcom market can be analyzed by examining five focal points: Ka-band products, GaN devices, solid-state power amplifiers (SSPAs), traveling-wave-tube amplifiers (TWTAs...
Qorvo recently scaled up its GaN manufacturing process to 6 inches, up from 4 inches. It's the latest attempt to reduce the steep production cost of GaN.
Record crowds at this year’s show were treated to an impressive display of new component, system, test, and software products at more than 900 exhibition booths.
With the merger of TriQuint and RFMD under way, James Klein provides a peek into the shared company’s goals and plans while highlighting the strengths and synergies that it will...
Designed for applications in the 868/900-MHz Industrial-Scientific-Medical (ISM) band, model RFFM6904 is a single-chip front-end module (FEM) ideal for portable equipment.
Advanced semiconductor materials are vital to the technology growth of the armed forces, which hope to use both gallium nitride and graphene devices in future systems.
Held in Canada for only the second time in its history, the 2012 IEEE International Microwave Symposium (IMS) brought a large influx of microwave engineers to Montreal, Quebec...
Think plumbing when you think of microwaves. At least that is the way it used to be. Lots of waveguides and metal structures with cavities. And tubes. Today much of that plumbing...
Most wireless today is microwave. But it wasn't always that way. Microwave was initially associated with radar, transmission lines and other special wireless applications like...
In an IMS exhibition floor noteworthy for its number of new GaN product announcements, RFMD showed its model RFHA1006 GaN power amplifier with high efficiency and flat gain across...
RFMDJerry Neal, the company's Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of Marketing, has announced his retirement. Neal was responsible for securing RFMD's initial venture-capital...
Discrete power transistors support RF and microwave large-signal applications with a variety of technologies, ranging from older silicon semiconductors to mixes of materials using...
High-frequency circuit and device designers rely on a number of different semiconductor processes, each with strengths in different applications areas.
Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA)Has announced the following 2011 awards recipients: Dr. Morris Chang Exemplary Leadership AwardDr. Henry Samueli, Broadcom Corp.; Most Respected...
Over 600 exhibitors made the trip to the Baltimore Convention Center for this years IMS, bringing news of software, hardware, test equipment, and even company acquisitions.
CONTRACTSNorthrop Grumman Corp.Has been awarded a contract to supply navigation and communications systems for nine 35-m patrol boats being built for the Iraqi navy. The $19-million...
Nujira and RF Micro Devices (RFMD) have teamed on what they feel is the world's most efficient broadband power amplifier. Based on gallium nitride (GaN) technology, the RFG1M ...
President of the Multi-Market Products Group at RFMD, which is known for the design and manufacture of high-performance semiconductor components for the wireless handset market...
A line of broadband, high-isolation switches serve applications through 6 GHz. Based on GaAs pHEMT technology, the models RF3021, RF3023, RF3024, and RF3025 switches from RFMD...
The latest market study from Strategy Analytics, "Squeezing Out the Competition; TriQuint Semiconductor and Win Semiconductors Extend GaAs Foundry Leadership," reports that TriQuint...
To meet the size, integration, and performance requirements of next-generation communications and defense application, companies are leveraging unique and even proprietary, process...
RF Micro Devices, Inc. and Sirenza Microdevices announced that they have signed a definitive merger agreement. Under the terms of the merger agreement unanimously approved by ...
TriQuint Semiconductor has been named the fastest-growing company out of the top three among GaAs device manufacturers in a report by Strategy Analytics. According to the report...
