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Oct 16, 2026
Inside Mini-Circuits’ First GaN MMIC Power Amplifiers
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3:31Tim RenierHOST
So the first two, uh, GNA series devices provide six watts to six gigahertz and eight watts up to two and a half gigahertz, with the GNA-252-5W+ achieving up to 47% PAE.
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3:46Tim RenierHOST
Why is efficiency particularly important in these high power RF amplifier designs? What does that mean for system designers in terms of power consumption and thermal management?
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3:55Michael CiardulloGUEST
Yeah.
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3:55Michael CiardulloGUEST
One thing I'll point out is the, the GNA-252-5W and the GNA-63-5W that produce eight watts and six watts respectively minimum across their broad bandwidths, right? So they're, not only are they efficient, but they're producing that minimum amount of power across the, across the whole bandwidth.