HILLSBORO, Oregon – September 8, 2010 – 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 2009.’  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.

“It is a great honor to award and recognize Ambit, NTK Technologies, MBE Technology, Vacuum Engineering & Materials Co., and Murata,” said Steve Grant, Vice President of Worldwide Operations.  “The capability of our strategic suppliers to provide us with zero-defect material, position capacity to support TriQuint’s continued growth, and collaborate on reducing costs while developing innovative solutions greatly contributes to our ability to deliver RF solutions that improve the performance and lower the cost of our customers’ applications.”

The categories and winners of this year’s awards are as follows:

Top Supplier of the Year
Ambit Microsystems
Ambit Microsystems is a subsidiary of Foxconn Technology Group and provides semiconductor assembly and test services.

Top Supplier of the Year – Florida
NTK Technologies, Inc.
NTK Technologies provides innovative semiconductor packaging materials.

Top Supplier of the Year – Oregon
MBE Technology Pte Ltd.
MBE Technology is established as one of the world's leading manufacturers and suppliers of high quality MBE epi-wafers for the wireless communication and opto-electronic industries.

Top Supplier of the Year – Texas
Vacuum Engineering & Materials Co., Inc.
VEM provides manufacturing, stocking and distribution of thin film materials for a variety of industries, including compound semiconductor.

Supplier Excellence Award
Murata Electronics North America Inc.
Murata Electronics North America, Inc. is one of 54 wholly owned subsidiaries of the worldwide organization Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. of Japan.  Murata provides a broad spectrum of electronic components.

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 involve risks and uncertainties. The cautionary statements made in this press release should be read as being applicable to all related statements wherever they appear. Statements containing such words as ‘continued growth,’ ‘ability to deliver RF solutions’ or similar terms are considered to contain uncertainty and are forward-looking statements. A number of factors affect TriQuint’s operating results and could cause its actual future results to differ materially from any results indicated in this press release or in any other forward-looking statements made by, or on behalf of, TriQuint including, but not limited to:  those associated with the unpredictability and volatility of customer acceptance of and demand for our products and technologies, the ability of our production facilities and those of our vendors to meet demand, the ability of our production facilities and those of our vendors to produce products with yields sufficient to maintain profitability, 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 TriQuint
TriQuint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT) celebrates its 25^th anniversary in 2010 as a leading global provider of innovative RF solutions and foundry services for the world’s leading communications, defense and aerospace companies. People and organizations around the world need real-time, all-the-time connections; TriQuint products help reduce the cost and increase the performance of connected mobile devices and the networks that deliver critical voice, data and video communications. With the industry’s broadest technology portfolio, recognized R&D leadership, and expertise in high-volume manufacturing, TriQuint creates standard and custom products using gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN), surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) technologies.  The company has ISO9001-certified manufacturing facilities in the U.S., production in Costa Rica, and design centers in North America and Germany. For more information, visit www.triquint.com.

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Media Contact:
Brandi Frye
Director, Marketing Communications
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
Tel: +1.503.615.9488
E-mail: bfrye@tqs.com