HIGH POINT, NORTH CAROLINA (USA) – December 11, 2008 – TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc (NASDAQ: TQNT), a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, today announced its North Carolina design center has moved into a new facility to accommodate its growing handset business. The North Carolina design center opened two years ago with one person and now hosts a team of highly advanced RF engineers. The team, with a dozen patents and more than 300 years collective experience in electrical engineering and technical support, develops TriQuint’s latest advanced module solutions for mobile phone manufacturers. The new facility is double the size of the first location and will accommodate future growth.

Darrell Epperson, manager of TriQuint North Carolina, said "We are excited to move into the new facility as it represents our past success and promising future. The new facility has state-of-the-art equipment to complement our strong RF engineers in developing world-class solutions for our growing customer base. It's rewarding to see the latest phones rely on TriQuint technology to optimize their talk time and battery life.".

To augment the North Carolina Design Center’s products, technologists at TriQuint’s Oregon, Massachusetts, Florida, and Munich, Germany facilities design TriQuint’s other handset product families, including leading 3G solutions which have been adopted by most of the major smart phone manufacturers. TriQuint’s mobile handset business utilizes TriQuint’s broad in-house technology portfolio to design and develop industry-leading RF front-end solutions including power amplifiers and integrated transmit modules.

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 2008, 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.

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