Agilent Technologies Inc., a US-based test and management company, has signed a deal to acquire Wavics, a South Korean mobile phone component manufacturer.

Agilent Technologies Inc., a US-based test and management comA pany, has signed a deal to acquire Wavics, a South Korean mobile phone component manufacturer. Wavics’s patented CoolPAM power amplifier technology significantly reduces battery power consumption and allows CDMA and WCDMA handsets to run at a cooler temperature. Agilent plans to combine this new power amplifier capability with its miniature FBAR (film bulk acoustic resonator) filters to create higher-performance CDMA and WCDMA front-end modules. Agilent has also set up its Asian research and development centre in Seoul.