Opinion on  TriQuint Semiconductor Inc. (TQNT)     Sector: Technology  >  Industry: Semiconductors
TriQuint Semiconductor Inc.

TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. supplies modules, components, and foundry services to communications companies worldwide. The company utilizes technologies, such as pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMT), gallium nitride HEMT, bipolar transistors, heterostructure field effect transistor, metal-semiconductor field effect transistor, surface acoustic wave (SAW), and bulk acoustic wave (BAW) to design and manufacture products. Its products include transmit modules, power amplifiers, power amplifier modules, filter banks, receivers, duplexers, switches, and integrated products for communications marketplace. The company also offers broadband products, such as network and the customer premise equipment, bluetooth devices, cable head-end and set-top boxes, wireless local area networks and worldwide interoperability for microwave access networks, voice over Internet protocol, and video on demand; and networks products, including amplifiers, low noise amplifiers, field effect transistors, switches, gain blocks, attenuators, voltage controlled oscillators, and mixers, as well as SAW and BAW filters. In addition, it provides power amplifiers for phased-array radar antenna and similar applications for airborne systems; and monolithic microwave integrated circuits, such as frequency converters, control devices, switches, discretes, and oscillators for military market, as well as resonator products. Further, the company offers foundry services, such as design, wafer fabrication, test engineering, package engineering, assembly, and test. TriQuint Semiconductor, Inc. markets its products through independent manufacturers’ representatives, independent distributors, and direct sales staff. The company was founded in 1981 and is headquartered in Hillsboro, Oregon.