HILLSBORO, OREGON & SHENZHEN, CHINA – March 29, 2010 – TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc (NASDAQ: TQNT), a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced it has received ZTE Corporation’s “Supplier of the Year” award. A leading Chinese manufacturer of wireless communication system equipment, ZTE annually recognizes top suppliers with superior cost, quality, delivery and service performance. TriQuint has achieved top supplier recognition for the third consecutive year, while experiencing a compound annual growth rate of 70% with ZTE.

Mr. Zeng Zhaoxiang, Vice General Manager of ZTE Kang Xun, said “TriQuint had excellent performance in areas of on-time delivery and business co-operation in 2009. TriQuint made outstanding contributions in enhancing the whole delivery performance of ZTE.”

“On behalf of all TriQuint employees who work very hard every day to deliver the radio frequency solutions that power both the systems and devices that enable voice, data and video, we are honored to accept this award from ZTE,” said Tim Dunn, Vice President Mobile Devices at TriQuint Semiconductor. “TriQuint is committed to providing ZTE with quality products and excellent service as together we address the growth challenges inherent in the dynamic telecommunications industry. We look forward to continuing to supply ZTE with high-quality radio frequency solutions for wireless communications.”

ZTE, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of telecommunications equipment, sees healthy demand for its wireless handsets and data cards continuing this year and expects subscriber growth for TD-SCDMA, a Chinese wireless communication standard for 3G, to increase by 500 percent*. TriQuint supplies a variety of radio frequency solutions to ZTE including power amplifiers, SAW filters, and multi-function integrated modules for all wireless communication standards including GSM/GPRS, EDGE, CDMA, WCDMA and TD-SCDMA.

*Reuters: ZTE Sees Healthy Sales Growth in 2010

FORWARD LOOKING STATEMENTS

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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 in 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, gallium nitride (GaN), 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 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/rf to receive new product information and to register for our newsletters.
¹ Announced February 2009 and May 2009, respectively.

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TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc
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