RF Power Amplifier and Transceiver Market Tracker
RF Micro Devices has just released new additions to its portfolio of high performance 2.4 GHz front-end modules for ZigBee and HAN applications - these are single chip ZigBee front-end modules that integrate together power amplifier, with low noise amplifier, and diversity switch.

Skyworks Solutions announced that it will be providing multimode multiband power amplifier modules for use in the Samsung Galaxy S II LTE and in the Samsung Galaxy Note.

Texas Instruments has demonstrated what was called the industry’s first RF SoC that integrates a 2.4 GHz radio along with ARM Cortex-M3 processor and Smart Energy 2.0 hardware acceleration, along with the necessary Flash and RAM memory to run the Smart Energy 2.0 profile and ZigBee IP stack.

TriQuint has announced that ZTE will be using the company's power amplifier modules in its line of smartphones, including the Blade and Skate model releases.

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