HILLSBORO, Oregon (USA) – May 22, 2009 – TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc (NASDAQ: TQNT), a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced the winners of its 2009 Sales Awards Program. The awards recognize TriQuint sales representatives’ and distributors’ overall performance including support, service, design wins and responsiveness to customers. Award winners were chosen based on nomination by members of TriQuint’s executive sales team. Winners were announced at TriQuint’s sales conference, an annual training and networking event for representatives and distributors.

The categories, winners and nominees are as follows:

Top Representative of the Year:
Winner
Pierre Carriere, Neutronics Components, Ltd. http://www.neutronics.ca/

Nominees
Norbert Rieger, Redtree Solutions, http://www.redtree-solutions.com/
Kevin Townsend, Sands Technical Sales, http://www.sandstechnical.com/frame.htm

Top Representative Company of the Year:
Winner
Sands Technical Sales, http://www.sandstechnical.com/frame.htm

Nominees
Neutronics Components, Ltd. http://www.neutronics.ca/
Redtree Solutions, http://www.redtree-solutions.com/
Spectrant, http://www.spectrant.com/

Top Distributor of the Year:
Winner
Avnet China, http://www.avnet.com.cn/em/

Nominees
Richardson, Germany, http://www.rell.com/
RFMW, http://www.rfmw.com/

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Todd DeBonis, Vice President of Sales at TriQuint, congratulated nominees and winners and thanked them for their support in helping continue to grow TriQuint’s business. “The markets for our products – mobile phones & devices, GPS products, defense radar and aerospace satellites – are continuing to grow. Our solutions are not only in the devices, but also in the backhaul networks transporting the data, voice and video. This is an exciting time to be part of this business.”

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/rf 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