HILLSBORO, OR (USA) – April 11, 2008 – TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.® (NASDAQ: TQNT), today announced the Internet availability of proxy materials for its 2008 annual meeting of shareholders under the new U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission’s Notice and Access rule. TriQuint’s proxy materials can now be found at http://www.triquint.com/investors/materials/annuals.

Under the new Notice and Access rule, companies may satisfy the proxy material delivery requirements by delivering a “Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials” to shareholders, providing Internet access to the proxy materials and providing a set of printed materials by mail to any shareholder who requests them. TriQuint’s shareholders may obtain hard copies of proxy materials free of charge by following the instructions provided in the “Notice of Internet Availability of Proxy Materials” which is being mailed to shareholders. TriQuint elected to adopt the Notice and Access procedures for some of its shareholders in order to reduce printing and mailing costs and minimize the impact of the Annual Meeting on the environment.

TriQuint’s annual meeting of shareholders will be held at the company headquarters at 2300 NE Brookwood Pkwy, Hillsboro, Oregon at 4:00 p.m. Pacific time on Wednesday, May 21, 2008.

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 cellular handset 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, base stations, broadband communications and military. TriQuint is also lead researcher in a 3-year DARPA program to develop advanced gallium nitride (GaN) amplifiers. TriQuint, as named by Strategy Analytics in August 2007, 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 register for our newsletters.

Steve Buhaly
VP of Finance & Administration,
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc.
Tel: (503) 615-9401
Fax: (503) 615-8904
Email: sbuhaly@tqs.com

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