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Nokia and Arizona CellularSign Agreement for GSM-EDGE Network Delivery

Dec 26, 2002, RF Design Staff

Nokia and Cellular One of Northeast Arizona announced they signed an agreement for the delivery of GSM/EDGE network systems. Nokia will be the sole supplier for the mobile switching and radio access network, which will bring next-generation services to large areas of Northeast Arizona and Western New Mexico that do not currently have mobile phone service. Deliveries have begun with commercial services scheduled for this...

ChipMOS Taiwan to Acquire Interest in ThaiLin

Dec 26, 2002, RF Design Staff

ChipMOS Technologies Ltd. announced that its 70 percent owned subsidiary, ChipMOS Technologies Inc., will acquire more than a 40 percent direct stake in 2002 Wi-Fi IC Shipments to Top Expectations

Dec 26, 2002, RF Design Staff

Strong growth in the small office/home office (SOHO) market segment and global demand for 802.11x wireless local area networks (WLANs) will push chipset shipments to nearly 25 million this year, well beyond the expected figure of 14 million to 15 million, and well ahead of the 7.9 million shipments in 2001, says a recent market study be Allied Business Intelligence....

Superconductor Technologies Completes Merger, Closes Private Placement

Dec 26, 2002, RF Design Staff

Superconductor Technologies Inc. (STI), a manufacturer of high-temperature superconducting (HTS) products for wireless voice and data applications, announced it completed its merger with Conductus Inc. The company also announced it closed a related $20 million equity private placement contingent on the merger....

California Micro Devices Introduces Low-capacitance ESD Protection Family

Dec 21, 2002

California Micro Devices Corp. announced a new family of low-capacitance electrostatic discharge (ESD) protection devices. The company says the CM1209 family is the industry's first low-capacitance ESD protection device to provide up to 15 kV ESD contact protection, per the IEC61000-4-2 specification....

Lucent Develops Capacity-increasing Chip for Its 3G CDMA2000 Base Station

Dec 21, 2002, RF Design Staff

Lucent Technologies Inc. introduced a capacity-increasing chip that will be integrated into its new third-generation (3G) Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 2000 base station, the Flexent Modular Cell 4.0, and future products in the Flexent OneBTS family of base stations....

Semiconductor Equipment Industry Posts 0.79 November Book-to-Bill Ratio

Dec 21, 2002, RF Design Staff

The North American-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $779 million in orders in November 2002 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.79, according to the November 2002 Express Report published by Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International (SEMI). A book-to-bill of 0.79 means that $79 worth of new orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month....

RF Micro Devices Completes Acquisition of Resonext Communications

Dec 20, 2002, RF Design Staff

RF Micro Devices Inc., a provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, announced the acquisition of Resonext Communications Inc., a privately held company providing integrated CMOS wireless local area network (WLAN) solutions for 802.11a and multi-band (802.11a/b/g) platforms....