RF Micro Devices Introduces 2.4 GHz Power Amplifier For Bluetooth Applications

Business Wire, June 26, 2000

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 26, 2000

High Output Power Enables 20dBm at the Antenna

RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD) a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, now offers the RF 2172 -- a GaAs HBT RF power amplifier for high power Bluetooth applications.

Output power at 2.5 GHz is 23dBm, supplying sufficient overhead to cope with loss in the channel filter and achieve 20dBm at the antenna, the maximum allowed by the Bluetooth specification.

The IC operates efficiently in both the 2.4 GHz and the 900MHz ISM bands, and is ideal for Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum systems. Gain control to optimize transmit power is provided as well as a power down mode to save current.

Manufactured using an advanced gallium arsenide process technology (GaAs HBT), the RF2172 is offered in an MLF-16 package. The device is available for immediate shipment, priced at $1.27 per unit in order quantities exceeding 10,000. Fully assembled evaluation boards are also available from RFMD.

For a complete listing of RFMD(TM) products and services, refer to the company's Designer's Handbook. Free copies in print or CD-ROM format are available directly from RFMD by calling (336) 664-1233, extension 6655, or sending an e-mail request to jmcrae@rfmd.com.

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 -- including amplifiers, mixers, modulators/demodulators, and single-chip receivers, transmitters and transceivers -- representing 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. RF Micro Devices, Inc. is traded on the NASDAQ National Market under the symbol RFMD.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that relate to the company's plans, objectives, estimates and goals. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," and "estimates," and variations of such words and similar expressions, identify such forward-looking statements. The company's business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including probable variability in quarterly operating results, risks associated with the operation of a wafer fabrication facility and the construction of a second facility, the company's ability to manage rapid growth, variability in production yields, manufacturing capacity constraints, dependence on a limited number of customers and dependence on third parties. These and other risks and uncertainties, which are described in more detail in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause actual results and developments to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any of these forward-looking statements.

RF Micro Devices(R) and RFMD(TM) are trademarks of RF Micro Devices, Inc. For further information about RFMD or the new RF2172, please visit our homepage at http://www.rfmd.com.

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