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Every year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated uniqueness in developing and leveraging new technologies, which significantly impacts both the functionality and the customer value of the new products and applications. The award lauds the high R&D spend towards innovation, its relevance to the industry, and the positive impact on brand perception.
Skyworks GaAs devices power major gaming platforms
Next generation consoles use the firm’s FEMs, LNAs and analogue products
popular form of network access.”
According to Gartner’s “Forecast: Video Game Ecosystem, Worldwide 4Q13” report, the worldwide video game marketplace, which includes video game console hardware and software, online mobile and PC games, is forecasted to reach $111 billion by 2015, up from $79 billion in 2012. Sales of existing console hardware alone are forecast to grow from $15.9 billion in 2013 to $22.7 billion in 2015.
IDC Research also reports that the number of online console gamers around the globe is on pace to exceed 165 million by 2017. As a result, IDC states that the opportunity to sell these gamers digital assets through Wii U, Xbox One and PS4 online storefronts will grow substantially in the next several years.
Two of the devices are based on GaAs technology and include the following:
AS179-000 is a monolithic, single pole double throw switch (SPDT) fabricated using Skyworks’ proprietary GaAs, pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors as the switching elements.
AS179-92LF is an integrated circuit, GaAs field effect transistor SPDT switch in a low cost, miniature SC-70, six-lead plastic package.
SiGe chip sets new speed record
Skyworks Solutions says its front-end modules, low noise amplifiers, switches and power detectors are being utilised across the world’s foremost gaming platforms such as the Sony PlayStation, Nintendo Wii and Microsoft Xbox.
Skyworks has been delivering RF solutions across nearly all gaming platforms for several generations.
“Skyworks is proud to be at the heart of all leading gaming platforms,” says Liam K. Griffin, executive vice president and corporate general manager at Skyworks. “Our analogue and connectivity solutions are helping to create a truly unique user experience with social capabilities. This is yet another example of Skyworks’ ability to capitalise on the unprecedented demand for wireless ubiquity across the Internet of Things, with online gaming platforms becoming an increasingly
March 2014
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The silicon-germanium technology could be used in cold- temperature applications such as in outer space, where temperatures can be extremely low A research collaboration consisting of IHP-Innovations for High Performance Microelectronics in Germany and the Georgia Institute of Technology has demonstrated what it claims is the world’s fastest silicon-based device to date. The investigators operated a silicon-germanium (SiGe) transistor at 798 gigahertz (GHz) fMAX, exceeding the previous speed record for SiGe chips by about 200 GHz.
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