RF Micro Devices Ships Fifty Millionth CDMA Product - Company Financial Information

Cambridge Telcom Report, Dec 13, 1999

RF Micro Devices, Inc., a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, Tuesday announced that it has shipped its fifty millionth CDMA product.

Ranked, according to QUALCOMM, as one of the fastest-growing digital technologies, the CDMA network has grown to over 35 million subscribers to date. The CDMA Development Group reports that the number of CDMA subscribers are expected to reach over 50 million by the end of 1999.

"We are extremely pleased to reach this milestone, especially knowing that we've achieved it while meeting the design and production standards of the world's leading mobile phone manufacturers," said Alastair Upton, director of the company's Digital Cellular product line. "For over five years, our CDMA digital cellular chips have provided optimum price and performance solutions for wireless communications products, and we will continue in our role as a high-volume provider to these growing markets."

William Pratt, RFMD's chairman and chief technical officer, stated "CDMA technology has been a part of RF Micro Devices from the beginning, and we are proud of the accomplishment this production figure represents. CDMA chips were some of the very first RFICs that we developed for our original customers."

RF Micro Devices supplies a wide variety of digital cellular products such as CDMA power amplifiers, driver amplifiers, modulators, upconverters, quadrature demodulators, LNAs, mixers, front-ends and IF amplifiers. RFMD's GaAs HBT (gallium arsenide heterojunction bipolar transistor), silicon BiCMOS and silicon germanium are the core technologies used to fabricate the digital products that provide complete RF and IF chipsets for CDMA handsets.

RF Micro Devices, Inc., an ISO 9001 certified manufacturer, designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary RFICs for wireless communications applications such as cellular and PCS phones, cordless phones, wireless LANs, wireless local loop handsets, industrial radios, wireless security systems and remote meter readers. The Company offers a broad array of products - representing amplifiers, mixers, modulators/demodulators, and single-chip receivers, transmitters and transceivers - that represent a substantial majority of the RFICs required in wireless subscriber equipment. The Company's strategy is to focus on wireless markets by offering a broad range of standard and custom designed RFICs in order to position itself as a "one-stop" solution for its customers' RFIC needs. FMI: http://www.rfmd.com.