TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. Receives Intel’s Preferred Quality Supplier Award

HILLSBORO, Ore.--(EON: Enhanced Online News)--TriQuint Semiconductor (Nasdaq:TQNT), a leading RF product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced that it has received Intel Corporation’s Preferred Quality Supplier (PQS) award recognizing their significant contributions to Intel in 2008. TriQuint supplies Intel with amplifiers, RF switches and front end modules for WLAN products, deemed essential to Intel’s success. TriQuint and 25 additional suppliers are recognized as 2008 PQS award winners.

“Congratulations to TriQuint in earning the Preferred Quality Supplier award from Intel. This achievement is a tribute to TriQuint’s strong commitment and execution in support of RF components for Intel’s wireless products”

“We are honored by Intel Corporation’s selection of TriQuint Semiconductor for the 2008 Preferred Quality Supplier award. TriQuint has worked closely with Intel on a range of significant programs enabling the RF evolution of MIMO based WLAN and WiMAX solutions. TriQuint’s focus on integrated semiconductor technologies as well as customer service and quality has enabled us to improve performance and lower overall system costs for our customer,” said Brian Balut, Vice President, Networks, TriQuint.

“Congratulations to TriQuint in earning the Preferred Quality Supplier award from Intel. This achievement is a tribute to TriQuint’s strong commitment and execution in support of RF components for Intel’s wireless products,” said Leif Stavig, Materials Manager, Integrated Circuit Sourcing and Enabling Manager, Intel Corporation.

The PQS award is part of Intel’s Supplier Continuous Quality Improvement (SCQI) program that encourages suppliers to strive for excellence and continuous improvement. To qualify for PQS status, suppliers must score 80 percent on a report card that assesses performance and ability to meet cost, quality, availability, delivery, technology and responsiveness goals. Suppliers must also manage and deliver on a challenging improvement plan and a quality/business systems assessment. Furthermore, the 2008 awardees had to demonstrate basic compliance to the Electronic Industry Code of Conduct and Intel’s Green Sustainability Program. Additional information about the SCQI program is available at http://supplier.intel.com/quality/scqi.htm.

Celebrations will be held in Tokyo, Japan and Santa Clara, California during the month of March 2009 to honor the PQS award winners. In addition, there will be an online advertisement launch and acknowledgement on Intel’s website.

FACTS ABOUT TRIQUINT (TQNT)

Founded in 1985, we “Connect the Digital World to the Global Network”™ by supplying high-performance RF modules, components and foundry services to the world's leading communications companies. Specifically, TriQuint supplies products to four out of the top five mobile phone manufacturers, and is a leading gallium arsenide (GaAs) supplier to major defense and space contractors. TriQuint creates standard and custom products using advanced processes that include gallium arsenide, surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) technologies to serve diverse markets including wireless handsets, laptops, GPS/PND, base stations, broadband communications and military. TriQuint is also the lead researcher in a multi-year DARPA program to develop advanced gallium nitride (GaN) amplifiers. TriQuint, as named by Strategy Analytics¹, is the number-three worldwide leader in GaAs devices and the world’s largest commercial GaAs foundry. TriQuint has ISO9001 certified manufacturing facilities in Oregon, Texas, and Florida and a production plant in Costa Rica; design centers are located in North America and Germany. Visit TriQuint at www.triquint.com/rf to receive new product information and to register for our newsletters.

¹ Announced February 2009 and August 2008, respectively.

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