CMP Chooses TriQuint as its Gallium Arsenide Foundry Services Partner

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. (NASDAQ:TQNT), a leading RF front-end product manufacturer and foundry services provider, and Circuits Multi-Projects (CMP) announce CMP has chosen TriQuint’s TQP15 for its Gallium Arsenide foundry process technology offering for universities and small company customers.

Since 1981, CMP, an independent non-profit organization, has help more than 1000 organizations from 70 countries access affordable commercial foundries by consolidating their designs onto a single prototype mini-tile. CMP works with several foundry vendors supporting a range of technologies and has chosen TriQuint for its GaAs processes. CMP customers will have access to TriQuint’s latest commercial foundry process, TQP15, for cost-effectively building millimeter wave applications. CMP offers its customers experience with the entire design, layout, verification, and tapeout process, as well as the export guidance.

"We are pleased to be partnering with CMP on this endeavor. CMP’s customers will have access to TriQuint’s new mmWave 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, Vice President, 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 well-established Pseudomorphic High Electron Mobility Transistor (pHEMT) process portfolio. TQP15 combines high power density with low noise and supports designs operating up to 80GHz. Additionally, TQP15 utilizes optical lithography to reduce cost when compared to traditional E-beam based solutions.

CMP will exhibit at DesignCon 2011 in Santa Clara January 31 – February 3 and its expert staff will be on hand to answer questions about its choice of TriQuint for GaAs foundry services.

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FACTS ABOUT TRIQUINT

Founded in 1985, TriQuint Semiconductor (NASDAQ: TQNT) is a leading global provider of innovative RF solutions and foundry services for the world’s top communications, defense and aerospace companies. People and organizations around the world need real-time, all-the-time connections; TriQuint products help reduce the cost and increase the performance of connected mobile devices and the networks that deliver critical voice, data and video communications. With the industry’s broadest technology portfolio, recognized R&D leadership, and expertise in high-volume manufacturing, TriQuint creates standard and custom products using gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN), surface acoustic wave (SAW) and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) technologies. The company has ISO9001-certified manufacturing facilities in the U.S., production in Costa Rica, and design centers in North America and Germany. For more information, visit www.triquint.com.

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FACTS ABOUT CMP

CMP is a broker in ICs and MEMS for prototyping and low volume production. Circuits are fabricated for Universities, Research Laboratories and Industrial Companies. Advanced industrial technologies are available in CMOS, BiCMOS, SiGe BiCMOS, FDSOI down to 20nm, pHEMT GaAs, and MEMS etc. CMP distributes and supports several CAD software tools for both Industrial Companies and Universities. Since 1981, more than 1000 institutions from 70 countries have been served, more than 6000 projects have been prototyped through 700 runs, and 56 different technologies have been interfaced.

For more information, visit: http://cmp.imag.fr