Microwaves & RF Online: July, 2026

Catch what you missed among the latest stories, videos, and podcasts from the month of July, 2026.

Welcome to Microwaves & RF's monthly publication, where you can find the latest articles, videos, and podcasts. You can sign up for our newsletters to see the latest articles as they're posted. You can also catch up on archived versions of MWRF'sTop Stories of the Month.

Signal Reflections: What Were the Big Buzzwords at IMS 2026?

I’ve often wondered whether there are secret clubs, meetings, or chat rooms for marketing people. I wonder about this because when I roam around an exhibition hall such as this year’s International MTT-S Symposia (IMS 2026) and talk to a bunch of them, I invariably hear certain words repeatedly trotted out. The usual colloquialism for these oft-repeated words is “buzzword,” which the Merriam-Webster online dictionary defines as “an important-sounding, usually technical, word or phrase often of little meaning used chiefly to impress laymen.”

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Featured Content

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The Quad-Apollo MxFE platform demonstrates phase-coherent, direct-RF digital beamforming across 16 receive and 16 transmit X-band channels.
Analog Devices
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This article presents a methodology to synchronize multiple modular circuit boards, equipped with high-speed data converters, to build a concept of a scalable digital beamforming...
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Emerging wireless demands are reshaping how next-generation networks are built, from spectrum strategy to intelligent signal processing.
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This article explores how industrial motor control is evolving from a standalone control function into a connected, data-driven system.
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How do Zigbee 4.0 and sub-GHz extensions expand low-power wireless networks into larger and more security-sensitive deployments?
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The IIoT is very different from related consumer IoT applications in that they must always perform in a cost-effective, reliable, and optimal manner.
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A new modular and fanless PC that sits in the “Goldilocks Zone” reimagines the industrial gateway to meet the challenges of today’s IIoT system deployment.
Why LoRaWAN Dominates Massive IoT
LoRa Alliance CEO Alper Yegin breaks down the current state and future roadmap of LoRaWAN technology.
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Solderless assembly processes eliminate solder joints and enable a more integrated, fabrication-like method of system construction.
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Integrated quantum systems will pioneer the combining of quantum sensing, networking, and computing, creating a data gathering, transmission, and processing environment to serve...

New Products

Here are summaries of our new product coverage throughout the month.

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LYNRED's DRACO MW SL SXGA MWIR detector is optimized for land and Counter-UAV systems.
Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.
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Check out the latest Microwaves & RF Products of the Week!
Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.
Navitas
Check out the latest Microwaves & RF Products of the Week!
Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.
Infineon Technologies
Check out the MWRF Products of the Week!
Here's this week's selection of some of the most interesting new products that have been launched of late.

Multimedia

Here are our latest videos, podcasts, and webinars.

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Editor's Choice: From the Microwaves & RF Archives

These articles were chosen by the editors at Microwaves & RF to complement the new articles above. They're included in our regular newsletters.

Editor's Monthly Picks

In this section, our editors highlight articles they found this month that you might be interested in as well.

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In his long career in the B2B electronics-industry media, David Maliniak has held editorial roles as both generalist and specialist. As Components Editor and, later, as Editor in Chief of EE Product News, David gained breadth of experience in covering the industry at large. In serving as EDA/Test and Measurement Technology Editor at Electronic Design, he developed deep insight into those complex areas of technology. Most recently, David worked in technical marketing communications at Teledyne LeCroy, leaving to rejoin the EOEM B2B publishing world in January 2020. David earned a B.A. in journalism at New York University.

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