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RF Micro Devices, Inc. Announces New European Design Center

Source: RF Micro Devices

Greensboro, NC. RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, today announced the opening of a new engineering design center in Pandrup, Denmark.

The new facility is expected to house a team of senior RF engineers using the latest and most advanced RF design tools. Drawing upon the enormous talent in northern Denmark, including nearby University of Aalborg, the Denmark design center will expand the company s ability to develop highly integrated RF components for a variety of wireless applications. The initial focus will be on high efficiency power amplifiers for digital cellular systems, and will expand to include RF application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) designs targeting RFMD s Total Radio(TM) solutions. The design center will feature engineering offices, labs and CAD equipment, and will provide a very important link to customers in the European wireless market.

"We are pleased to expand our design capabilities into Europe and welcome these engineers to the RFMD(R) team," said Bill Pratt, RFMD chairman and chief technical officer. "We are fortunate in our ability to recruit talented designers. We expect our presence in the European market to increase."

David A. Norbury, president and chief executive officer, remarked, "This announcement demonstrates our commitment to expand wherever we find a concentration of wireless expertise. Our customers require that we continually develop sophisticated applications in a variety of technologies -- GaAs HBT, Silicon bipolar and BiCMOS, Silicon Germanium and GaAs MESFET -- and we have taken yet another step to establish additional design capacity to serve them." Norbury noted that the new engineering design lab marks the fifth external design center created by RF Micro Devices since 1999, following locations in the United States in California, Massachusetts, Iowa, and Arizona.

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), RFMD(R) and Total Radio(TM) are trademarks of RF Micro Devices, Inc. For further information about RFMD, please visit our home page at http://www.rfmd.com. For past press releases and company information, go to http://www.businesswire.com/cnn/rfmd.htm.

Contact: RF Micro Devices Jerry D. Neal Tel: 336/664-1233

RF Micro Devices
Jerry D. Neal
Tel: 336/664-1233
Web site: http://www.businesswire.com/cnn/rfmd.htm
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