HILLSBORO, Oregon -- August 7, 2009 -- TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc (NASDAQ: TQNT), a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, is pleased to announce the recipients of its ‘Top Supplier Awards for 2008.’  These awards recognize TriQuint’s top suppliers for their overall performance to TriQuint including innovation, operational excellence, service levels, and industry leadership. Winners were selected by members of TriQuint’s Supply Chain and Business Unit organizations and recognized during TriQuint’s Supplier Day Conference, an annual educational and networking event for TriQuint’s top suppliers.

“Congratulations to VPEC, Ambit, ASE, Yoshikawa and Unisem.  Having a strong relationship with our suppliers is a key element of our ability to deliver cutting-edge RF solutions to our customers,” said Steve Grant, Vice President of Worldwide Operations.  “We rely on our suppliers to provide quality products, outstanding service and innovative solutions so that our customers may ultimately be successful deploying communications products to the global network.”

The categories and winners are as follows:

Top Supplier of the Year
Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co., Ltd. (VPEC)
http://english.vpec.com.tw/index.php
Visual Photonics Epitaxy Co., Ltd. (VPEC) is a Taiwanese manufacturer of compound semiconductor materials based on MOCVD technology. Founded in 1996, VPEC's principal products are HBT and PHEMT epitaxial wafers for wireless communication applications.

Top Supplier of the Year – Florida
Yoshikawa High Precision – Kimitsu Plant
http://www.ykc.co.jp/english/
As a partner of Nippon Steel Corporation, Yoshikawa Kogyo is a very large, privately held diverse group of companies that began operations in 1920 in Japan. Yoshikawa’s precision-pressed electronics parts business group supplies high-grade electronic parts using advanced stamping technology. Yoshikawa’s electronic parts are delivered to world-wide customers and include lids and rings for SAW devices, ultra-small laminated core for pager motor in mobile phones, terminals for liquid-crystal backlight electrodes, various drawn products, transfer-pressed products and others.

Top Suppliers of the Year - Oregon
Ambit Microsystems
Ambit Microsystems is a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group, the world’s largest EMS provider. Located in Zhongshan, China, Ambit is a world-class turnkey provider of semiconductor assembly and test services, catering to the unique needs of the telecommunications sector.

ASE Group - Korea
http://www.asekr.com/
ASE KOREA, established by ASE Group, is a Taiwanese semiconductor company providing turn-key solutions - assembly and testing of a range of customer-specific semiconductors such as automotive power ICs, medical and industrial sensors and amplifiers for wireless telecommunications - and continuously invests in the development of high value-added and next-generation products.

Top Supplier of the Year – Texas
Unisem Malaysia
http://www.unisemgroup.com/
Unisem Malaysia, a member of the Unisem Group, is a global provider of semiconductor assembly and test services offering an integrated suite of packaging and test services such as wafer bumping, wafer probing, wafer grinding, a wide range of leadframe and substrate IC packaging including leaded, QFN, BGA and FlipChip packages, and high-end RF and mix-signal test services.

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FACTS ABOUT TRIQUINT
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 to receive new product information and to register for our newsletters.
¹ Announced February 2009 and May 2009, respectively.

Media Contact:
Shannon Rudd
MarComm Manager
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc
Tel: +1.503.615.9407
E-mail: srudd@tqs.com