RF Electronics ♦ news digest effectively building millimetre wave applications.
“We are pleased to be partnering with CMP on this endeavour. CMP’s customers will have access to TriQuint’s new mm Wave foundry process, TQP15, along with the design kits and other foundry support services. This enables a large number of university students to cost-effectively evaluate their designs in actual GaAs chips and helps TriQuint reach a new generation of RF designers,” says Glen Riley, VP of TriQuint Semiconductor Commercial Foundry Services.
“CMP is pleased to be working with the industry’s leading Gallium Arsenide foundry and introduce GaAs design and fabrication to the next generation of electrical engineers. TriQuint offers comprehensive support services and cutting edge technology. This program will bring GaAs technology to a whole new audience experimenting with futuristic design,” said Bernard Courtois, Director of CMP.
Manufactured in TriQuint’s high volume GaAs fabrication facility in Hillsboro, Oregon, TQP15 is the latest offering in TriQuint’s Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor (pHEMT) process portfolio.
TQP15 combines high power density with low noise and supports designs operating up to 80GHz. The TQP15 process also utilises optical lithography to reduce costs when compared to traditional E-beam based solutions.
RFMD Quarterly Revenues Increase 11% to $279 Million
The firm has also generated $54 million in free cash flow and has authorised a 2-Year, $200 million share repurchase plan.
RF Micro Devices (RFMD), a designer and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and compound semiconductor technologies, has reported financial results for its fiscal 2011 third quarter, ended January 1, 2011.
RFMD’s quarterly revenue increased approximately 11% year-over-year and decreased approximately 2% sequentially to $278.8 million. On a GAAP basis, gross margin was 37.0%, quarterly operating income totalled $43.3 million, and quarterly net income was $36.7 million, or $0.13 per diluted share.
During the quarter, the company generated $54.2 million in free cash flow.
RFMD’s Multi-Market Products Group (MPG) enjoyed strong underlying demand in its end markets, and each MPG business unit grew sequentially, led by wireless infrastructure, Smart Energy, WiFi for 3G/4G smartphones and tablets, defence, and high-power gallium nitride (GaN) applications. Its Cellular Products Group (CPG) saw accelerating design activity for 3G/4G smartphones across its PowerSmart power platforms, high- performance switch-based products, and recently launched family of single-mode power amplifiers (PAs).
RFMD supported the launch of a highly anticipated flagship 3G/4G smartphone and tablet product family featuring its PowerSmart and WiFi components. MPG commenced volume production of GaN products for applications in high-power military radar and CATV.
In the March quarter, RFMD expects total revenue to seasonally decline approximately 10%-15% and also expects an additional decline of approximately $25 million in transceiver revenue, consistent with the anticipated end-of-life of legacy transceiver products. The firm also anticipates its transceiver products will be immaterial to financial results in the June 2011 quarter and thereafter.
RFMD expects to commence volume shipments of PowerSmart in the March quarter and achieve free
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