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and global leadership in wireless, and bringing additional capacity to service the emerging high growth CPV market,” he adds.


“Compound semiconductors are widely acknowledged as the key enabling materials that will drive a wide range of next generation technologies from high performance data transmission and management, to highly energy efficient products, including solar energy, SSL and power semiconductors.”


IQE expects to report its interim results around mid-September 2013.


Anadigics reveals GaAs and GaN amplifiers for network upgrades


The 1.2 GHz gallium arsenide and gallium nitride devices are optimised to help CATV service providers increase their system bandwidth, allowing them to offer additional digital services


Anadigics has unveiled a new family of CATV infrastructure products that is optimised for the proposed data over cable service interface specification (DOCSIS) system standard version 3.1.


include power doubler and push-pull line amplifiers, Edge QAM amplifiers, reverse path amplifiers, and optical receivers. These products are designed to support outstanding picture quality and higher data rates by offering exceptional linearity and noise figure. This level of performance ensures high signal fidelity over extended frequencies up to 1.2 GHz with a “high-split” return path.


The company’s DOCSIS 3.1 solutions will also deliver higher output power levels to achieve drop-in upgrades to existing hybrid fibre coax infrastructure systems. The new family of products will leverage Anadigics’ proven high linearity GaAs process with exceptional reliability and mean-time-to-failure along with GaN HEMT technology for high output power and optimum power efficiency.


The firm’s ACA2429 1.2 GHz GaN power doubler combines Anadigics’ MESFET technology with a GaN HEMT output stage. This solution delivers 25 dB gain with +60 dBmV output power and only 10 W of power consumption in a surface mount package. The ACA2429 line amplifier offers exceptional bit error rate, composite triple beat, composite second order, cross modulation, and carrier-to-intermodulation noise characteristics for optimal performance in a fully-loaded spectrum.


Skyworks not flying so high with new stock repurchase program


The company currently expects to fund the repurchase program using its working capital


Skyworks Solutions, Inc. has authorised the repurchase of up to $250 million of the company’s common stock from time to time prior to July 16th, 2015 on the open market or in privately negotiated transactions,


This is in compliance with applicable securities laws and other legal requirements.


These solutions are optimised to help CATV service providers increase their system bandwidth, allowing them to offer additional digital services, including high-definition television and video on demand, and enable higher speed data services. The first product in this family is the ACA2429 GaN power doubler, the industry’s first 1.2 GHz surface mount line amplifier.


“Anadigics’ DOCSIS 3.1 amplifiers demonstrate our commitment to innovation and product excellence, which are key drivers behind our infrastructure growth strategy,” says Tim Laverick, vice president of Infrastructure Products at Anadigics. “By helping manufacturers achieve industry-leading performance and reliability in new 1.2 GHz downstream equipment, we are enabling MSOs to take advantage of this upcoming standard and offer a wider array of exciting services.”


Anadigics’ newest generation of infrastructure solutions will 100 www.compoundsemiconductor.net August/September 2013


This newly authorised stock repurchase program replaces in its entirety the $200 million stock repurchase program which was approved by the Board of Directors on November 8th, 2012, and had $35.6 million of repurchase authority remaining.


The timing and amount of any shares of the company’s common stock that are repurchased will be determined by the company’s management based on its evaluation of market conditions and other factors. The repurchase program may be suspended or discontinued at any time.


Any repurchased shares will be available for use in connection with its stock plans and for other corporate purposes.


The company currently expects to fund the repurchase program using the company’s working capital. As of June 28th, 2013, the company says it had cash and cash equivalents of approximately $400.3 million.


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