Filtronic Wins 3G Supply Contract

Filtronic, a designer and manufacturer of customised microwave electronic subsystems for the wireless telecommunications and defence industries, announces that it has been selected by a new OEM customer to supply initial quantities of an integrated radio frequency head unit to be installed in WCDMA base stations.

Production quantities are not expected to commence until the second half of calendar year 2004.

The units contain power amplifiers, which incorporate the unique, high power, compound semiconductor transistors manufactured in Filtronic's own fabrication facility at Newton Aycliffe. The units also contain the up/down converters and the high-speed digital baseband interface and processing capability."

Posted to the site on 25th September 2003