SmarTune, the RF MEMS tuners made by Cavendish Kinetics, have passed the 100 billion cycle lifetime test without a failure making them suitable for large-scale adoption. SmarTune antenna tuning ...

The RF device and process technology markets are heating up, especially for two critical components used in smartphones—RF switch devices and antenna tuners. RF device makers and their foundry ...

[Tech Minds] built one of those cheap automatic antenna tuners you see everywhere — this one scaled up to 350 watt capability. The kit is mostly built, but you do have to add the connectors and a few ...

Cavendish Kinetics, the RF MEMS tuner specialist, says its SmarTune RF MEMS antenna tuners have been adopted by 40 different smartphone models from 10 manufacturers, including the Samsung Galaxy A8.

NEWPORT BEACH & SAN JOSE, USA: TowerJazz, the global specialty foundry leader, and Cavendish Kinetics, announced that Cavendish's CK301 RF MEMS tuner has passed the 50 billion cycles test with zero ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. & BEIJING--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cavendish Kinetics, the leading provider of high-performance RF MEMS tuning solutions, and nubia, the premium smartphone brand of ZTE Corporation, ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Cavendish Kinetics, the leading provider of high-performance radio frequency (RF) MEMS tuning solutions, announced today that its SmarTune RF MEMS antenna tuners ...

As wireless broadband consumes ever larger amounts of spectrum, engineers are looking for antenna designs capable of working over a wide range of frequencies. One approach is to use tuned antennas.

The RF front end (RFFE) is becoming increasingly complex in 5G designs due to the growing number of frequency bands. Subsequently, more antennas are required to deliver higher data rates while they ...

Microtune Inc. has introduced a tuner chip for high-speed in-car TV (the MT2067 MicroTuner) and an AEC-Q100 amplifier for integrated antenna systems (MT1119). The firm noted that new digital ...

BOSTON, Dec. 3, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Shipments of LTE smartphones supporting more cellular bands will drive antenna tuner shipments to billions of units per year, according to the new Strategy ...

The need for what’s called antenna tuning—either by adjusting the antenna itself or via a matching circuit between power-amplifier output and the antenna—is almost as old as wireless itself. Even in ...