HILLSBORO, Oregon (USA) - June 18, 2010 - 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 2010 Global Sales Conference, an annual training and networking event for representatives and distributors. TriQuint celebrates its 25th anniversary in 2010 providing connectivity solutions for the world's leading communications, defense and aerospace companies.
The categories, winners and nominees are as follows:

Representative Sales Person of the Year:
Winner
Joe McMahon, Microwave Components Marketing

Nominees
Dave Richter, Neutronics Components, Ltd.
Chris Reilly, Redtree Solutions

Representative Company of the Year:
Winner
Neutronics Components, Ltd.

Nominees
Insight Demand Creation
Tempest Technical Sales

Distributor of the Year:
Winner
Richardson Electronics

Nominees
Avnet Taiwan
RFMW

Facts About TriQuint
TriQuint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT) celebrates its 25th 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 Comms
TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc
Tel: +1.503.615.9488
E-mail: bfrye@tqs.com