2009.09.25
RIKEI STARTS TO SELL HITTITE'S OPTICAL COMMUNICATIOINS DEVICES BY CONCLUDING A DISTRIBUTOR AGREEMENT WITH HITTITE MICROWAVE CORPORATION (BASED IN THE USA).
Rikei Corporation (Head Office: Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo, President & CEO: Katsuei Aoyagi) would like to announce it has concluded a distributor agreement with Hittite Microwave Corporation (Head Office: Massachusetts, USA, CEO: Stephen G. Daly) and starts to its devices for optical communications.
Hittite is a leading fabless manufacturer headquartered at Chelmsford near Boston, Massachusetts. Hittite's RFIC/MMIC products are designed based on the most advanced semiconductor production process on the basis of GaAs, GaN, InGaAs, InP, SOI and SiGe, supplying mixed products ranging from DC to 110GHz. These products are being widely used by more than 3,000 user companies across the world for a wide range of applications for automobiles, broadband products, cell phone infrastructure, optical communications, defense and airspace industries, and measuring equipments.
For the fields of fiber optics and high-speed logic products, Hittite is supplying TIA (Trans Impedance Amplifier), LIA (Limiting Amplifier) and broadband driver amplifiers up to 65GHz as well as low-cost high-speed logic products with less power consumption and broadband data track & hold devices, etc.
Using many years of sales experiences in the optical communications and measuring equipment markets, Rikei jointly with Hittite will continue to offer and propose various solutions, centering on fiber optics products and high-speed logic products.
About Hittite Microwave Corporation
Hittite is a semiconductor manufacturer established in 1985 and which is listed on NASDAQ. Its products lineup includes more than 750 standard products and many custom products, covering a wide range of applications. During one year period of last year, it launched more than 100 new products, continuing to release new products for the expanding optical communications markets across the world. For details, please visit Hittite's Web site: http://www.hittite.com/.
Rikei Corporation
About this news release:
Business Solution Dept.:
+81 3 3345 2162 (dial-in) Soga
E-Mail: hittite@rikei.co.jp
About our business in general:
New Business Development Dept.:
+81 3 3345 2180 (dial-in) Uchiyama
E-Mail: uchiyama@rikei.co.jp
