GREENSBORO, NC and HILLSBORO, OR – November 17, 2015 – Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO), a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications, today announced Qorvo has received its first production orders for the Company's recently launched multiplexer solutions. Qorvo's high-performance, highly integrated multiplexer solutions are designed to simplify and accelerate the adoption of carrier aggregation (CA) in 4G LTE-Advanced devices.
Qorvo's quadplexer solutions leverage the Company's proprietary LowDrift™ BAW filter technology to deliver intrinsic performance advantages over other acoustic filter technologies. Qorvo's LowDrift™ and NoDrift™ BAW filter technologies help network operators optimize frequency spectrum and enable dramatically improved mobile data services for users of next-generation smartphones.
Eric Creviston, president of Qorvo's Mobile Products group, said, "The rapid customer adoption of Qorvo's multiplexer solutions reflects the strength of our premium filter technology portfolio and the benefit of our broad collaboration with the leading chipset suppliers on their highest volume reference designs. Qorvo will continue to expand our family of multiplexers and we anticipate broad adoption of our multiplexer solutions in calendar 2016."
Qorvo's multiplexers deliver low insertion loss and high cross-isolation of receive and transmit paths to optimize receive sensitivity and extend smartphone battery life. The Company's first-generation multiplexer solutions are optimized for Europe and the Asia Pacific region and integrate multiple BAW filters to cover the primary band combinations used in CA deployments: bands 1+3 and bands 39+41.
Qorvo's high performance RF solutions simplify design, reduce product footprint, conserve power and improve overall system performance in smartphones, tablets and other mobile devices. Qorvo offers customers a unique combination of broad manufacturing scale, deep systems-level expertise and the industry's most comprehensive product and technology portfolio, helping mobile device manufacturers accelerate delivery of next-generation products.
About Qorvo
Qorvo (NASDAQ:QRVO) is a leading provider of core technologies and RF solutions for mobile, infrastructure and aerospace/defense applications. Qorvo was formed following the merger of RFMD and TriQuint, and has more than 7,000 global employees dedicated to delivering solutions for everything that connects the world. Qorvo has the industry's broadest portfolio of products and core technologies; world-class ISO9001-, ISO 14001- and ISO/TS 16949-certified manufacturing facilities; and is a DoD-accredited 'Trusted Source' (Category 1A) for GaAs, GaN and BAW products and services. For the industry's leading core RF solutions, visit www.qorvo.com.
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