Gary Lerude

"Your Browser Does Not Support Video" MACOM GaN UpdateAn interesting update on MACOM's GaN strategy from president/CEO Steve Daly during the Q3 FY21 earnings call on July 29. Daly covered the transfer of AFRL's 0.14 µm GaN process to MACOM's Lowell fab and the status of the GaN on Si development with ST.

Establishing long-range tactical communications for U.S. troops in remote locations currently requires giant parabolic dishes, tall pole-mounted antennas, large antenna domes and high-power amplifiers. Besides their significant weight, power and cost (SWAP-C), these antennas present large visual and radio frequency (RF) signatures, are vulnerable to jamming, and constitute a single point of failure.

Smiths Interconnect announced the release of its extended CXH Series of Surface Mount Chip Resistors and Terminations. The CXH Series uses a patented layout to provide improved power handling over conventional flip chart resistors, without compromising broadband performance. This makes the CXH Series well suited for a wide array of RF applications, particularly in the space and defence markets.