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conceived a new model that transformed the “traditional staffing group” into a strategic, proactive sourcing team to recruit the specialised talent TriQuint needs.
Once the right candidates join TriQuint, the company’s impressive development, training and benefits programs help retain them. Burke has encouraged her team to develop programs for the company’s “Live Well” initiative.
Employees can offset healthcare costs through education and doctor visits for preventative care. The company also sponsors friendly competition like “Most Active Site” contests to increase exercise and spark interest toward wellness goals around the world. Other stand-out HR benefits include a tuition reimbursement program, sabbaticals and Technical Ladder career paths. Innovation is rewarded at TriQuint, and employees are passionate about transforming how the world communicates. The company is currently hiring for a variety of jobs.
The HR Leadership Awards program is an annual event created not only to shine a spotlight on the strategic importance of the HR field but to “recognise the region’s top human resources executives for the excellent work they do in a somewhat unheralded field of expertise.”
RFMD expands PowerSmart family
The extension of the gallium arsenide based series will include multiple new 3G and 4G LTE power platforms variants
RFMD’s PowerSmart power platforms are aimed at converging front ends in multimode, multi-band applications, including smartphones, tablets, and other data-centric mobile broadband devices.
The firm’s newest PowerSmart power platforms include PowerSmart 4G, a converged multimode multi-band power platform capable of up to 12 bands of 4G LTE, 3G and 2G. The PowerSmart 4G is specifically designed for 4G LTE operation and expands upon RFMD’s first-generation PowerSmart power platform by adding three additional bands of 3G or 4G LTE coverage.
PowerSmart 4G also includes all necessary switch and signal conditioning functionality in a compact reference design, providing smartphone manufacturers a single scalable source for the entire front end.
RFMD’s expanded PowerSmart product family also includes a new power platform optimised for emerging 3G entry (3Ge) applications and capable of multimode multi-band coverage of up to seven bands of 3G or 2G. Similar to PowerSmart 4G, RFMD’s PowerSmart power platform for emerging 3Ge applications includes all necessary switch and signal conditioning functionality in a compact reference design.
In addition to the 4G and 3Ge power platforms, RFMD is expanding the PowerSmart product family to include multiple 3G and 4G discrete power amplifiers (PAs). The discrete
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PAs can be placed optionally with any RFMD PowerSmart power platform to achieve additional band or mode coverage. Architected in tandem with the RF Configurable Power Core in each PowerSmart power platform, these discrete PAs can deliver significantly improved PA efficiency at backed-off power.
Eric Creviston, president of RFMD’s Cellular Products Group, says, “As the world’s only truly converged solution with single- die multimode performance, RFMD’s PowerSmart is positioned to drive the cellular wide area network experience across a broad range of mobile devices, including tablets, notebooks, ultra-books, e-readers and next-generation in-vehicle networking. RFMD is delivering the industry’s most innovative converged front ends for multimode multi-band applications, and we expect these new products to support multiple cellular handset and smartphone manufacturers this calendar year.”
Multimode reference design
win for RFMD The design win is for the firm’s second-generation ultra-high efficiency family of power amplifiers
The new reference design win is on a highly integrated multimode multi-band 3G/LTE solution.
Eric Creviston, president of RFMD’s Cellular Products Group, says, “We are excited to expand our relationship with this leading chipset supplier to include our ultra-high efficiency 3G/4G power amplifiers. RFMD is already supporting our mutual customers with high-performance 3G/4G switches and switch-based products, and we are enthusiastic about the incremental growth opportunities presented by our increasing participation on 3G and LTE reference designs.”
RFMD’s second-generation ultra-high efficiency 3G and 4G LTE PAs deliver an enhanced user experience by extending battery life and reducing the thermal impact of data usage in smartphones.
The product family currently covers WCDMA bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8, and LTE bands 4, 7, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, and 21 – addressing the most common UMTS/HSPA+ and LTE frequency bands and band combinations. Additional multimode, multi-band (MMMB) and single-mode LTE variants will be introduced in the first half of calendar 2012.
RFMD offers a broad portfolio of 3G and 4G LTE solutions in single-mode and converged architectures to ensure alignment with leading chipset providers and enable worldwide network compatibility. RFMD’s 3G and 4G LTE product portfolio reduces the thermal impact of data usage in smartphones while enabling increased battery life during data-centric applications, such as web surfing, video calls and internet radio services.
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