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TRIQUINT SEMICONDUCTOR COMPLETES ACQUISITION OF
RF POWER INNOVATOR, PEAK DEVICES, INC
Adds to TriQuint’s leadership position in multi-market RF components
HILLSBORO, OR (USA) – September 4, 2007 – TriQuint
Semiconductor (Nasdaq: TQNT), a leading manufacturer of wireless
products, announced today that it has completed the acquisition of Peak
Devices, Inc. of Boulder, Colorado, in a cash transaction introduced
last month. Peak Devices is a privately held, fabless semiconductor
company with a highly experienced RF team that focuses on RF discrete
transistor technology. Its market segments include 2-Way Communications,
FM and Television Broadcast, Telecommunications, Avionics, Radar, and
Military.
“With the completion of the acquisition of Peak Devices, we take
another step toward diversifying our technology portfolio, and further
our strategy to cultivate revenue across multiple high-growth markets,”
said Ralph Quinsey, TriQuint Chief Executive Officer (CEO). In the
August 21st initial acquisition announcement, Mr. Quinsey remarked that
Peak’s technology may enable the software definable radio, which has
long been a target of the wireless industry. Peak has developed
proprietary semiconductor technology in which a single wide bandwidth
amplifier may replace multiple high power
multiplexer-combined-amplifiers.
Peak Devices CEO Bill McCalpin will lead the new TriQuint Colorado
operation. “Our team is eager to join TriQuint. We look forward to
expanding our reach through TriQuint’s global salesforce, and working
with their design teams to incorporate our wide band technology in
upcoming product plans,” he said. “I believe the combination of
TriQuint’s advanced semiconductor technologies such as GaN (Gallium
Nitride) and High Voltage HBT with our wideband circuit technology will
bring high power RF amplifiers to new levels of performance.”
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FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS
This TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq: TQNT) press release contains
forward-looking statements made pursuant to the Safe Harbor provisions
of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Readers are
cautioned that forward-looking statements such as statements regarding
the acquisition of Peak Devices, the impact of its products on
TriQuint’s business and the financial impact of the acquisition are
statements that involve risks and uncertainties. A number of factors
affect TriQuint’s operating results and could cause its future results
to differ materially from the forward-looking statements contained in
this press release including, but not limited to: failure of TriQuint to
realize the anticipated financial and product benefits of the
acquisition, customer acceptance of the Peak Device products,
integration and retention of the Peak workforce, failure to develop and
market multi-octave products, as well as the other “Risk Factors” set
forth in TriQuint’s most recent 10-Q report filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission. This and other reports can be found on the SEC
web site, www.sec.gov. A reader of this release should understand that
these and other risks could cause actual results to differ materially
from expectations expressed / implied in forward-looking statements.
FACTS ABOUT PEAK DEVICES
PEAK Devices designs, manufactures and markets a broad range of Bipolar,
MOSFET, and LDMOS, low power and high power RF discrete transistors for
use in a variety of market segments, including wireless communications,
HF/VHF/UHF, 2-Way Communications, FM Broadcast, Television Broadcast,
Avionics, Radar, and Military. Peak specializes in extending the life of
mature RF transistor product lines by designing and manufacturing
drop-in replacement transistors for those no longer supported by other
manufacturers. Peak Devices offers customers a viable, cost competitive,
long-term alternative to costly redesign as a result of product
obsolescence. PEAK Devices is a privately held company, headquartered in
Boulder, Colorado, and founded in 2000. For more information about PEAK
Devices and PEAK Devices products, visit its Web site at:
www.peakdevices.com, or send email to: info@peakdevices.com. To speak
with them directly, call (720) 406-1221.
FACTS ABOUT TRIQUINT
TriQuint Semiconductor supplies high-performance RF modules and
components to the world's leading communications companies.
Specifically, it ships components for four out of the top five cellular
handset manufacturers, and is a leading gallium arsenide (GaAs) supplier
to major defense and space contractors. Its diverse high-growth markets
include wireless handsets, base stations, broadband communications,
military and commercial foundry. TriQuint, as named by Strategy
Analytics in August 2007, is the #3 worldwide leader in GaAs devices and
the world’s largest commercial GaAs foundry. We “Connect the digital
world to the global network”™. TriQuint creates standard and custom
products using advanced processes that include GaAs, surface acoustic
wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) technologies, and also has
extensive developments in gallium nitride (GaN). TriQuint has
manufacturing facilities in Oregon, Texas, and Florida, a production
plant in Costa Rica, and design centers in North America and Germany.
These manufacturing and production facilities are certified to the
ISO9001 international quality standard. TriQuint is headquartered at
2300 NE Brookwood Parkway, Hillsboro, Oregon 97124 (USA) and can be
reached at +1 503 615 9000 (Fax: +1 503 615 8900). Visit TriQuint at
www.triquint.com. TriQuint's web
site and investor updates are not incorporated by reference herein and
shall not be deemed to be part of this release.
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Brandi Frye
Director, Marketing Communications
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
Tel: +1 (503) 615-9488
Mobile: +1 (503) 780-2318
E-mail: bfrye@tqs.com |
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