Peregrine Semiconductor announce that the six Globalstar mobile communication satellites, launched into orbit on February 6, have its UltraCMOS Phase Locked Loop frequency synthesizer and prescaler devices designed in. Built by Thales Alenia Space in France, the low-Earth orbit satellites transmit audio and data communications for Globalstar’s mobile voice and data customers worldwide.

Peregrine Semiconductor has today announced from Mobile World Congress in Barcelona that it has expanded its DuNE Digitally Tunable Capacitor product line with six second-generation devices for antenna tuning in 4G LTE smartphones. The PE623060, PE623070, PE623080, and PE623090 (PE6230x0) DTCs have a capacitance range of 0.6 – 7.7 pF, and support main antenna power handling of up to +34 dBm.

Peregrine Semiconductor reveal that the company is collaborating with Intel on the latest generation of its popular DuNE tuning technology offering for Intel’s LTE platform reference design. The tuning solution utilizes Peregrine’s third generation tuning products, which feature multidimensional tuning capabilities, for full coverage of the 41 available LTE bands.

Peregrine Semiconductor announce the latest version of UltraCMOS process technology - Semiconductor Technology Platform 8 - from Mobile World Congress. STeP8 technology shows a 36% improvement in RonCoff performance over STeP5 technology announced just one year ago—dramatically improving the linearity, insertion loss, and isolation capabilities of Peregrine’s RFIC products.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, fournisseur fabless de circuits intégrés (CI) radio-fréquence (RF) haute performance, annonce l’extension de sa famille de commutateur radio (RF) haute linéarité de faible perte d’insertion avec la commercialisation du commutateur SPDT RF PE42422 de technologie HaRP améliorée. Ce nouveau commutateur se distingue par une linéarité IIP2 d...

Peregrine Semiconductor today announced the expansion of its high-linearity, low insertion loss RF switch family with the availability of the HaRP technology-enhanced SPDT PE42422 RF switch. The new switch provides linearity of 115 dBm IIP2, and 70 dBm IIP3; low insertion loss of 0.4 dB @ 3 GHz, and high isolation of 28 dB @ 3 GHz, enabling better overall system performance.

Peregrine today announced the expansion of its European operations with the opening of a design, development, and sales facility in Reading, United Kingdom. The Company’s UK facility focuses on developing dedicated RFIC products of European content, to better address the European requirements; including those of the European commercial, industrial, and high-reliability markets, which have been a cornerstone for Peregrine’s successful ...

Peregrine Semiconductor today announced the availability of the SPDT PE42421 RF switch, which is available in a miniature, 6-lead SC-70 package. With its small package size, strong ESD performance of 2 kV on the RFC port, low voltage support down to 1.8V VDD, and low power consumption of 9 microamperes, the new switch is well suited for battery-powered portable applications, as well as automotive-telematics applications, such as vehicle entry sys...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced the availability of the SPDT PE42421 RF switch, which is available in a miniature, 6-lead SC-70 package. With its small package size, strong ESD performance of 2 kV on the RFC port, low voltage support down to 1.8V VDD, and low power consumption of 9 microamperes (typ.), the new switch is well suited for battery-powered portable applications, as well as automotive-telematics applications, such a...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced from booth # 2009 at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS2012) in Montreal, its highest-linearity switches for 4G LTE applications. The HaRP technology-enhanced SP10T PE426161 switch meets the stringent second-harmonic requirement of -80 dBm for Band XIII—making it the highest-linearity switch in the Peregrine portfolio.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced from booth # 2009 at the International Microwave Symposium in Montreal, two new Digitally Tunable Capacitors—the PE64101 and PE64102 DTCs.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced from booth # 2009 at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS2012) in Montreal, the SP4T PE42540 RF switch. Designed on the latest UltraCMOS process technology version, STeP5, the HaRP technology-enhanced PE42540 switch has a frequency range of 10 Hz to 8 GHz, with low insertion loss of 0.8 dB @ 3 GHz, 1.0 dB @ 6 GHz, and 1.2 dB @ 8 GHz.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced from booth # 2009 at the International Microwave Symposium (IMS2012) in Montreal, the SP3T PE42430 RF switch.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced that the U.S. International Trade Commission has launched an investigation into whether RF Micro Devices, Inc. products infringe certain Peregrine patents relating to RF ICs and switch technology. The action and investigation further include Motorola Mobility, Inc. and HTC Corporation, whose products incorporate the alleged infringing RF ICs.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation annonce ce jour ses premiers produits de gestion d’alimentation, les régulateurs abaisseur à point de charge (POL) C/C basés sur l’UltraCMOS avec commutateurs intégrés, sont disponibles en échantillonnage. Le trio de circuits intégrés hautement fiables et résistants aux radiations : PE99151, PE99153 et PE99155 – qui sont les premie...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced that its first power management products, the UltraCMOS-based Point-of-Load (POL) DC-DC Buck Regulators with integrated switches, are available for sampling. The trio of radiation-hardened highly integrated devices, PE99151, PE99153 and PE99155 benefit from inherent advantages brought by Peregrine’s CMOS-on-sapphire technology and the company’s decades-long experience with high relia...

Mobile data services are experiencing a period of exponential growth, driven by enthusiastic adoption of smartphones and tablets in the consumer market, and expansion of applications for mobile usage, such as social networking, mobile video and video calling. Some estimates anticipate that 1.3 exabytes of data traffic will pass through the network in 2012 (‘exa’ denotes a multiplier of 1018, equivalent to 1million terabytes), with no ...

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation today announced that it has achieved its ISO/TS 16949:2009 certification. The scope of the specification extends to all elements of Peregrine Semiconductor’s systems it employs to design, produce and deliver its products.

Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation has announced that it has shipped its billionth CMOS-on-sapphire RFIC and has been designed into the world’s most sought-after smartphones. The milestone was achieved with a new SP8T RF Switch, one of several new high-throw-count switches designed on the latest UltraCMOS process technology version, STeP5, which is utilized for many of the Company’s latest RFICs, including the newest SP8T and SP10T R...

MagnaChip Semiconductor Corporation (« MagnaChip Semiconductor ») (NYSE: MX), concepteur et fabricant coréen de produits semi-conducteurs à signal analogique et mixte, et Peregrine Semiconductor Corporation, fournisseur fabless de circuits intégrés (CI) radio-fréquence (RF) haute performance, ont annoncé aujourd'hui que MagnaChip était passé à la production de masse pour l...