Tobe fair, reason for HybridMIC's produced by small co's akin to Fawad's AmpliTech & his senior counterpart/countryfellow & formidable competitor Javed's B&Z Technologies, & numerous on the WestCoast - is CUSTOMIZATION, obviously easier than for fully solid-state chipsets, etc. - there's a reason "Amplitech's of the world" exist despite MMIC's (e.g. Semiconductor co's, Qorvo, AnaDev, to name just 2 out of hundreds) relentless progress in displacing HybridMIC's (e.g. Amplitech, B&Z, Marki, CIAOWireless, Sage, etc.). Iam NOT here to dismiss Hybrids as a dying breed, AmpliTech will continue to exist (until aquired by a bigger fish, perhaps), what I say is different - their PR's/claims severely exaggerate reality, its business potential, worst of all is - profuse littering w/fad/buzzwords of "5G, SpaceX, Quantum Computing Autonomous Vehicles", etc. which insults intelligence of technical investors, sometimes even disgustingly so. Secondly, until very recently the ONLY College-educated/perm. engineer at company, was Fawad himself & even that is half-bakef as he spent bulk of time on business/administrative tasks, obviously, idea is as you age you become CEO & then Chairman & you hire other engineers to design/stay competitive, but here we had CEO spending a life on the bench tuning amps like a Tech, while his uneducated assembler & semi-tech w/background in CONSTRUCTION & car repair claimed to "design best stuff on Earth", lol ! By contrast, Marki Microwave, Norden Millimeter, B&Z, SAGE, etc. pose serious threat in specs/price ratio & CIAOWireless in decent tho not best specs/price/large volume & Net Profit employing 60-70 people in south California, look at Mercury Systems who absorbed former Delta Microwave near my home, look at Marki Microwave.
Asof Quantum Computing - sorry but truly qualified are Low.Noise Factory of Sweden via their U.S. partner Quantum Microwave inc. in Massachusetts. Quantum Microwave offers LNF's active LNAmps & its own passives (cryogenics) in STOCK & SPECS as measured by ACTUAL customers, while AmpliTech was busy presenting theoretical/"expected" perf & specs pretentiously stretched, customers can't always confirm
