Hybrid Converged MMPA Improves Performance and Lowers WCDMA and EDGE System Cost

HILLSBORO, OREGON (USA) AND BARCELONA, SPAIN -- February 1, 2011 -- TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc (NASDAQ: TQNT), a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced availability of its first Multi-Mode Power Amplifier (MMPA) module developed for a market leading 3G/4G chipset solution. The TQM7M9023, a member of the TRIUMF Module? family, combines with TriQuint’s industry leading TRITIUM PA-Duplexer Module? family to offer a complete RF system solution for smartphones and other mobile devices.

Tim Dunn, Vice President and General Manager of Mobile Devices at TriQuint noted, “The TQM7M9023 is an important addition to our product portfolio.  It integrates WCDMA functionality around our core competence of GSM/EDGE power amplifiers while providing customers a flexible, high performance platform solution to meet the increasing band count combinations in 3G/4G handsets. Our ability to integrate passive and active devices into high performance system solutions continues to propel TriQuint’s value in the smartphone market.”

TriQuint MMPAs provide several key benefits to mobile device vendors:

    * Decreased overall radio solution size to enable a greater feature set in a smaller form factor
    * Simplified PCB routing for improved performance and design cycles
    * A reduction in BOM count that  improves manufacturing efficiency

The combination of the MMPA and Band 2 and Band 5 TRITIUM modules offers a flexible and simplified RF solution that can reduce mobile device engineering and development time.

TriQuint offers the industry’s largest in-house technology portfolio which uniquely enables innovative RF architectures that align with major chipset providers; this broad breadth portfolio provides device manufacturers qualified, tested and certified solutions.  TriQuint will highlight these platform solutions at the telecommunications industry’s largest annual gathering, GSMA Mobile World Congress, in Barcelona, Spain 14 - 17 February, 2011.

Technology Overview:  TRIUMF MMPA Module using CuFlip technology
Utilizing its unique CuFlip? technology enables TriQuint to achieve the compact 5.0x7.5mm footprint in the TQM7M9023. The MMPA integrates Quad-band GSM/EDGE functionality with WCDMA Bands 1 & 8 into a single package. Building on TriQuint’s leadership in the EDGE market, the MMPA can provide additional value to customers through improved system performance and lower overall cost by replacing three discrete power amplifier modules and associated matching components.

The TQM7M9023 is a fully integrated MMPA and includes a GSM/EDGE power amplifier, WCDMA power amplifiers, high performance coupler, regulatory circuitry and matching components.  It does not require an external DC/DC converter or complicated band switches, thus providing customers the best RF performance at maximum output and backed-off power levels for both data and voice applications, respectively. The TQM7M9023 is now sampling and is expected to ramp into production by mid 2011.

Technology Overview:  TRITIUM PA-Duplexers using 2nd generation BAW and SAW technology
The Band 2 TQM66605x and Band 5 TQM61605x TRITIUM PA Duplexers were designed to support the MMPA.  TriQuint integrates high-performance BAW and SAW duplexer capabilities with low current consumption power amplifiers to customize traditional components for optimal performance.

The new TRITIUM PA-Duplexers are approximately 50% smaller in size compared to our industry leading TRITIUM family that shipped over 200 million units in calendar year 2010. Leveraging TriQuint’s new second generation BAW technology and advanced SAW capability, the modules allow multi-mode CDMA and WCDMA operation, enabling customers to leverage a single product across multiple platforms. Each module contains a Flip Chip BiHEMT power amplifier die, achieving industry leading current consumption for maximum talk-time and thermal efficiency critical for smartphone applications.  The new TRITIUM PA-Duplexers will be sampling in the second half of 2011. To locate one of TriQuint’s distributors, resellers or local and field sales representatives, please visit www.triquint.com/sales.