In The News...

• TriQuint Leads GPS Market Growth
• Harris Receives NSA Certification for Falcon III Multiband Manpack Radio
• Delfassy Joins ANADIGICS Board
• Major Acquisitions for RF Micro Devices
• U.S. Army Installs JTRS-Approved Falcon III® Radios into UAVs
• Agilent and ETS-Lindgren Test Equipment Chosen for WiMAX RPT
• New CFO at Pentadyne
• Tensolite Certified AS9100
• Executive Appointments at MITEQ
• Aeroflex / KDI – Integrated Products Names Gupta General Manager
• Skyworks Powers LG’s Latest Generation of Multimedia Handsets

TriQuint Leads GPS Market Growth
TriQuint Semiconductor, a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, announced that its wide portfolio of surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters for GPS-enabled products has made the company a leading supplier in the growing personal navigation device (PND) market. With an estimated 66% GPS SAW filter share, TriQuint leads in supplying low-cost, high-performance devices for PNDs made by three of the top four major manufacturers. “The growth of our key customers and their long-term relationships with the TriQuint GPS portfolio has expanded our position in this segment,” remarked TriQuint Neworks Vice President, Brian P. Balut. “When researchers including Canalys reported this month [Dec. 2007] that shipments by the top four exceeded 8.8 million units in the third quarter, we calculated a SAW filter market share of 66%.”
www.triquint.com

Harris Receives NSA Certification for Falcon III Multiband Manpack Radio
Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, has received certification from the National Security Agency (NSA) for its Falcon® III multiband, multimission manpack radio. The Falcon III AN/PRC-117G(C), which was known as the RF-300M-MP during development, is the first wideband networking radio to utilize the Software Communication Architecture (SCA) and receive NSA Type-1 certification for the protection of voice and data traffic up to the TOP SECRET level. The Falcon III AN/PRC-117G(C) is a manpack companion radio to the JTRS-approved Falcon III AN/PRC-152(C) multiband handheld and AN/VRC-110 vehicular radios. The Falcon III family of software-defined tactical communication equipment is designed to advance the U.S. military’s vision of network-centric warfare. “Certification was a critical requirement for fielding the Falcon III AN/PRC-117G(C), which is the first Type-1 secure tactical radio with wideband networking waveforms,” said George Helm, vice president and general manager, U.S. Government Products, Harris RF Communications. “Type-1 certification ensures that our customers will have the highest levels of information security for their emerging network-centric communications.”

Delfassy Joins ANADIGICS Board
ANADIGICS, a leading provider of semiconductor solutions in the broadband wireless and wireline communications markets, has appointed Gilles Delfassy, retired senior vice president, Worldwide Wireless Terminals Business Unit, Texas Instruments, to its Board of Directors. “Gilles has been a champion of mobile communications worldwide for several decades and brings a wealth of sophisticated business acumen and technical wireless expertise to our next generation of enabling semiconductor technology,” stated Bami Bastani, Ph.D., president/CEO of ANADIGICS. “As the newest member of our Board of Directors, Gilles will be invaluable in helping shape the future of ANADIGICS.”
www.anadigics.com

Major Acquisitions for RF Micro Devices
A little more than a month after RFMD’s acquisition of Sirenza Microdevices last November came news that the company had entered into a definitive agreement to purchase Filtronic Compound Semiconductors Ltd., a wholly owned subsidiary of Filtronic PLC, for about 12.5 million pounds in cash. This includes the company’s six-inch GaAs wafer fab at Newton Aycliffe, UK, which is currently a major supplier of GaAs pHEMT semiconductors to RFMD. This also includes the purchase of Filtronic Compound Semiconductors’ millimeter wave RF semiconductor business. RFMD expects the addition of this high-volume GaAs fab to significantly reduce RFMD’s GaAs pHEMT sourcing costs and provide additional capacity, thereby providing RFMD the opportunity to capture incremental revenue that might otherwise be subject to capacity constraints during calendar year 2008. Additionally, the company expects the addition of Filtronic Compound Semiconductors’ millimeter wave business to strengthen the product portfolio of RFMD’s recently formed Multi-Market Products Group and be accretive to RFMD’s target margin profile for its multi-market business. This adds to the significance of RFMD’s November 2007 acquisition of Sirenza, a supplier of radio frequency (RF) components. The management teams of RFMD and Sirenza will be combined to capitalize on the expanded opportunities created by the merger. Bob Van Buskirk, president/CEO of Sirenza prior to the acquisition, will relocate to North Carolina and will lead the Multi-Market Products Group. Bob Bruggeworth, president/CEO of RFMD, will continue as president/CEO of the combined company. The board of directors will consist of the current nine members of RFMD’s board and two new members from Sirenza’s board. “The acquisition of Sirenza Microdevices brings RFMD a broad set of customers and a diversified product portfolio of high performance RF components for multiple markets,” said Bruggeworth. “We are thrilled to add Sirenza’s employees, stockholders and customers to our organization, and we look forward to executing on the many opportunities created by the combination of RFMD and Sirenza Microdevices, which we believe creates the world’s largest, most diversified and best positioned RF company.” Van Buskirk added, “We believe this transaction clearly serves the best interests of the shareholders of Sirenza and RFMD as well as the best interests of the customers, suppliers and employees of both companies. As the president of RFMD’s newly formed Multi-Market Products Group, I am extremely excited about our ability to grow our combined multi-market businesses. We intend to expand margins by leveraging our technology base and robust global supply chain, and we believe we have a tremendous opportunity to achieve profitable growth as the acknowledged leader in RF solutions.
www.rfmd.com

U.S. Army Installs JTRS-Approved Falcon III® Radios into UAVs
Harris Corporation, an international communications and information technology company, is providing its JTRS-approved Falcon III AN/PRC-152© handheld radios to the U.S. Army to extend the communications capabilities of soldiers serving in mountainous and urban environments. The Army is installing these radios in Shadow 200 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) as part of a relay system to significantly extend the distance communication signals can travel. The radios provide critical aerial communication links for soldiers on the ground operating in obstructed line-of-sight environments. The Army selected the Falcon III AN/PRC-152© after extensive performance testing and field evaluations involving several potential vendors.

Agilent and ETS-Lindgren Test Equipment Chosen for WiMAX RPT
Agilent Technologies and ETS-Lindgren have been selected by AT4 wireless labs to provide WiMAX test equipment for use in radiated performance test (RPT). AT4 wireless is one of the first test labs to provide radiated performance testing for WiMAX. As the WiMAX Forum® Lead Lab and first worldwide WiMAX Forum Designated Certification Laboratory, AT4 wireless is developing RPT capability in its U.S.-based branch by adding the ETS-Lindgren RPT system. This test system includes the ETS AMS-8500 antenna measurement system, the Agilent EXA Signal Analyzer and Agilent’s E6651A Mobile WiMAX test set. This RPT solution will augment AT4’s other test systems, which include its own wireless Mobile WiMAX test set. The RPT testing solution can perform both 2-D (polar) and 3-D (spherical) antenna pattern measurement on transmit power and receiver sensitivity for notebooks, PCMCIA cards and other terminals employing WiMAX technology.
www.agilent.com

New CFO at Pentadyne
Pentadyne Power, a leading manufacturer of clean energy storage systems using advanced composite flywheel technology, has appointed Mark Campion as executive vice president and chief financial officer. Since 2003, Campion has been the CFO of Silicon Valley-based PolyFuel, a leader in the development of engineered membranes for fuel cells.

Tensolite Certified AS9100
Tensolite Company has announced that it has successfully implemented and was independently audited to the aerospace standard SAE AS9100 Quality Standard. The AS9100 certification is a widely adopted and standardized quality management system for the aerospace industry. It replaces the earlier AS9000 and fully incorporates the entirety of the current version of ISO 9000, while adding additional requirements relating to quality and safety. All major aerospace manufacturers and suppliers worldwide require compliance and/or registration to AS9100 as a condition of doing business with them.
www.tensolite.com

Executive Appointments at MITEQ
MITEQ, Inc. has named Howard Hausman president of the company. Joining Hausman on the Executive Management Team are David Krautheimer, executive vice president, business development, and Steven Spohrer, executive vice president of operations. Together, this team brings vast years of experience in management, sales, engineering and operations and will take responsibility to manage the ongoing operations and be the driving force to take the company into the future.
www.miteq.com

Aeroflex / KDI – Integrated Products Names Gupta General Manager
Aeroflex / KDI – Integrated Products has announced the appointment and promotion of Dr. Chandra Gupta to the position of general manager. Gupta joined the company as vice president of engineering in 2003. Prior to that, he had more than 30 years experience in the design and development of Micro and Millimeter wave components and systems with companies such as BAE Systems, Millitech, Alpha Industries and M/A-COM.
www.aeroflex.com

Skyworks Powers LG’s Latest Generation of Multimedia Handsets
Skyworks Solutions, an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, announced that it is gaining traction at LG Electronics by virtue of strong demand for its suite of front-end solutions coupled with several strategic design wins. In particular, Skyworks is at the heart of several of LG’s recently introduced models, including the LG-KF700, LG-KF600, LG-KF610 and LG-KF510. “Skyworks is delighted to be supporting LG Electronics with our family of front-end solutions as they increasingly launch ultra-slim, feature-rich and easy-to-use mobile handsets,” said Liam K. Griffin, senior vice president, sales and marketing, Skyworks. “In fact, based on the exciting response to their latest generation of wireless platforms at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, we expect LG to be a catalyst for accelerating growth for Skyworks throughout 2008. Further, we believe our highly integrated GSM and EDGE front-end modules complemented by our WCDMA solutions are well aligned to meet LG’s increasing 3G needs. Our success at LG and at others reflects our unique ability to provide customized architectures which incorporate all critical WCDMA bands working in concert with our selection of 2.5G or 2G FEMs. As the market transitions to multi-mode and multi-band 3G implementations, Skyworks is well positioned to lead in both performance and integration.”
Among the phones LG launched last month at Mobile World Congress, the LG-KF700. supported by the SKY77329 power amplifier (PA), is the world’s first multimedia phone that combines three input methods – a three-inch touchscreen display, slide-out alpha-numeric keypad, and Shortcut Dial at the back – to create an intuitive user interface (UI) that provides instant access to features. This functionality makes it ideal for watching movies and accessing the Internet in a slim, tri-band slider package. In addition, users can flip through numerous applications, including a calendar, scheduler and memo pad.
Powered by the SKY77340 PA, the LG-KF600 is an award-winning slider mobile phone that is feature rich and easy-to-use with its InteractPad™ that replaces physical navigation keys with context-specific virtual keys. The interface is designed for controlling multimedia features like the handset’s digital audio player, camera and camcorder.
www.skyworksinc.com