FAQ 3: How does TriQuint know GaAs reliability is good?
Reliability is known to be good because it's been tested. Throughout the
history of TriQuint, over 100 million device hours have been accumulated at
accelerated stress conditions. Typically, several thousand devices are
aged and monitored weekly using several different types of stresses. It is
felt that TriQuint has one of the largest GaAs device reliability data bases
in the world, and the information is sufficient to measure the reliability of
GaAs technology.