Richardson secures global rights

Edited by the Electronicstalk editorial team Oct 31, 2005

Richardson Electronics has secured exclusive global distribution rights to Mimix's diversified line of GaAs semiconductor products that span the spectrum from DC to 50GHz.

Richardson Electronics has secured exclusive global distribution rights to Mimix's diversified line of GaAs semiconductor products that span the spectrum from DC to 50GHz.

Mimix selected Richardson as its worldwide distributor based on Richardson's global presence, inventory management expertise, technical field sales engineers, and engineered solutions that provide a total solution to its customers.

Mimix is positioned to meet the demand for increasingly higher bandwidth by providing higher frequency microwave and millimetre-wave GaAs devices used in a variety of wireless and optical applications.

The addition of Mimix's GaAs semiconductors to Richardson's product offering provides customers with an expanded range of devices to meet the requirements for a variety of applications from DC to 50GHz.

"We see significant potential for the Mimix products, including the devices that they recently acquired from Celeritek".

"We feel the acknowledged technological capabilities combined with the stability and outstanding marketing of Mimix will allow us to realise significant growth in the near term", stated Chris Marshall, Vice President of Richardson's Wireless and Broadband Communications Business Unit.

"Richardson's extensive team of field sales engineers enables us to provide superior customer support to address current designs and future applications", stated Rick Montgomery, CEO of Mimix Broadband.

"We believe this partnership provides us with the resources to increase the breadth and depth of our customer base and capture more design wins across the globe".