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Alpha Industries Shipping GaAs High-Performance Amplifiers for Newbridge Networks LMDS System

Woburn, MA. Alpha Industries, Inc. (NASDAQ: AHAA) announced today that it is shipping production volumes of high-performance gallium arsenide (GaAs) amplifiers for use in Local Multipoint Distribution System (LMDS) equipment provided by Newbridge Networks. Alpha s GaAs amplifiers, operating at 28GHz, are used in LMDS equipment that offers very high-speed broadband data, Internet and telecommunications access. LMDS offers data rates of up to 150 MBps, without the high network installation costs of many other broadband data solutions. A compact base station and simple customer premises equipment provides direct wireless links to businesses and homes.

"Alpha s strategic decision to develop proprietary, enabling technology for broad-band data access markets, including LMDS, is paying off," stated Colin Sweeney, Alpha s Director of Application Specific Products. "We are now seeing orders and shipments for our GaAs ICs into a broad range of high-speed wireless and cable data access equipment. Alpha intends to be a major provider of proprietary GaAs IC-based solutions in these exciting high-growth markets."

Alpha Industries designs and manufactures a broad range of products for microwave and radio frequency wireless communications applications. The Wireless Semiconductor segment provides gallium arsenide (GaAs) integrated circuits and other semiconductors to the dynamic global market for wireless telephone handsets. The Application Specific Products (ASP) segment provides a broad range of GaAs and silicon devices to satellite, instrumentation, defense and other communications markets. The Ceramic Products segment provides technical ceramic products for wireless telephony infrastructure and other wireless markets. Additional information on us and our products is available at www.alphaind.com.

Safe Harbor Statement - Except for the historical information contained herein, this news release contains forward-looking statements that constitute the Company s current intentions, hopes, beliefs, expectation or predictions of the future which are, therefore, inherently subject to risks and uncertainties. The Company s actual results could differ materially from those anticipated in the Company s forward-looking statements based on various factors, including without limitation: cancellation or deferral of customer orders, dependence on a small number of large customers, difficulties in the timely development and market acceptance of new products, market developments that vary from the current public expectations concerning the growth of wireless communications, difficulties in manufacturing new or existing products in sufficient quantity or quality, increased competitive pressures, decreasing selling prices for the Company s products, or changes in economic conditions. Further information on factors that could affect the Company s performance is included in the Company s periodic reports filed with the SEC, including but not limited to the Company s Form 10-K for the year ended March 28, 1999, and subsequent Forms 10-Q. The Company cautions readers not to place undue reliance upon any such forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. The Company expressly disclaims any obligations or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any such statements to reflect any change in the Company s expectations or any change in events, conditions or circumstance on which any such statement is based.

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Alpha Industries, Inc
Jim Nemiah
(781)935-5150 x.4426 Alpha Industries, Inc
Jim Nemiah
(781)935-5150 x.4426
Web site: http://www.alphaind.com

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