Headquarters: Greensboro, North Carolina. Committed to the development of high performance MMIC products, providing greater coverage and higher data rates for wireless infrastructure manufacturers' equipment.
Strengths: LNAs of Guerrilla-RF reached the world's top level, due to its design team came from Skyworks Greensboro Design Center , RFMD WiFi Front-End Group, MOTOROLA RF Front-End Design Center, etc.. The company is about to have a significant impact on several large markets (Enterprise and Carrier-Class WiFi Access Points, Small Cells, Wireless Backhaul, Defense, etc.).
Guerrilla Armor™ is its patent-pending technology.
Headquarters: Greensboro, North Carolina. RFMD has manufacturing, design or sales operations in the world.
Strengths: Through the acquisition of Sirenza, UMC, Microlinear, Filtronics etc., RFMD became the world's leading designer and manufacturer of radio frequency integrated circuits, discrete devices and passive components. Products completely cover RF / IF functional requirements, widely used in mobile phones, wireless infrastructure, WLAN, CATV / broadband, aerospace and defense markets.
In 2014, RFMD and TriQuint merged to form a new company called Qorvo, thus becoming a global giant RF IC company.
Headquarters: San Diego, California. It has worldwide technical support and product distribution network.
Strengths: It is a global leading supplier of RF switches and digital step attenuators. The company has the patent of SOI which becomes a mainstream of RF switch technology. Peregrine holds more than 180 filed and pending patents and has shipped more than 2 billion UltraCMOS® pieces. Products are widely used in wireless infrastructure, mobile phones, broadband, CATV / DTV and high-reliability markets. The company has been supplying high-reliable products for US military.
Headquarters: Chelmsford, Massachusetts. The company established engineering design centers in Springs (Colorado,USA), Istanbul (Turkey) and Ottawa (Ontario, Canada). In Chelmsford, Hittite operates a design, assembly & test facility, there are two Class 100,000 clean rooms, an environmental test lab and several general labs used for assembly and test respectively. It has sales offices around the world.
Strengths: Committed to MMIC / RFIC design and manufacturing, it produces RFIC from DC to 110GHz. Its MMIC switches, attenuators and mixers have strong competitiveness and high market share on a global scale, widely used in cellular mobile communication equipment, broadband / wireless products, CATV / LNB and test instruments.
Headquarters: Chicago, Illinois, USA. Littelfuse has over 30 engineering design, manufacturing and distribution centers, as well as worldwide sales network.
Strengths: Through the acquisition of more than a dozen companies such as Startco, Cole Hersee, Selco, Shock-Block, Hamlin, SymCom, established its leading position in the global protection device. From consumer electronics and communication equipment, to automotive electronics and industrial equipment, Littelfuse products are essential components in almost all the electric and electronic devices.
Headquarters: San Ramon, California. A global supplier of surface mount passives from Silicon Valley. MiniRF is a new name, but, it is a passive component company with over 20 years of design and manufacturing experience. The company was originally formed by PDI (Premier Devices Inc) in the early 1990's, was acquired by Sirenza Microdevices in 2006 which in turn was aquired by RFMD in 2007. MiniRF has returned to its roots, focusing strictly on passive components.
Strengths: Surface Mount Transformers, Couplers, Splitters and other passive components. Almost every MiniRF product has a ferrite core and coil. Winding cores is a specialized manual process and therefore surface mount passive components are labor-intensive products. MiniRF wins in cost-effective, its products are widely used in Broadband / CATV and Wireless Communication systems.
Headquarters: Brooklyn, New York. Is the leading RF / IF and microwave products supplier. The company was founded in 1969, has a number of manufacturing plants and a global sales network.
Strengths: As a RF, IF and microwave components and integrated modules vendor, both generic and customized products can be shortly batch delivery. This verifies the founder Harvey Kaylie's formula for success: quality products at competitive prices + fast delivery! From DC to 40GHz, from IC to module, from commercial / industrial to aerospace / military applications, Mini-Circuits offers 27 product lines and the world's largest variety of over 10,000 wireless products.
Headquarters: Lowell, Massachusetts. MACOM has over 60 years of history. It has multiple design centers and operational facilities throughout North America, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Strengths: MACOM is a leading supplier of high performance RF, microwave, mmWave and photonics products. It designs and manufactures standard or customized integrated circuits, components and modules. MACOM offers over 40 product lines with a broad portfolio of over 3,000 products. These products are widely used in high speed optical, satellite, radar, wired & wireless networks, automotive, industrial, medical, and mobile devices.
