RF Micro Devices, Inc. Announces Patent Application Filing.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 6, 2000

RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, today announced it has filed a patent application for a Bias Network for High Efficiency RF Linear Power Amplifiers.

This patent primarily relates to radio frequency (RF) power amplifiers used in linear systems. This invention is expected to enable higher levels of efficiency across the power band, which can specifically translate to significant improvements in the talk time for wireless handsets. Product families that will incorporate this patent-pending technology include power amplifiers for CDMA, GSM EDGE, W-CDMA and other linear systems.

"The ingenuity of our engineers and designers should be rewarded, and we believe that recognition of our novel products and innovative solutions by the patent offices from around the world helps to solidify our leadership position in wireless communications," said William Pratt, RFMD(TM) chairman and chief technical officer.

RF Micro Devices, Inc., an ISO 9001-certified manufacturer, designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary RFICs for wireless communications applications such as cellular and PCS phones, cordless phones, wireless LANs, wireless local loop handsets, industrial radios, wireless security systems and remote meter readers. The company offers a broad array of products -- including amplifiers, mixers, modulators/demodulators, and single-chip receivers, transmitters and transceivers -- representing a substantial majority of the RFICs required in wireless subscriber equipment. The company's strategy is to focus on wireless markets by offering a broad range of standard and custom-designed RFICs in order to position itself as a "one-stop" solution for its customers' RFIC needs. RF Micro Devices, Inc. is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol RFMD.

This press release contains forward-looking statements that relate to the company's plans, objectives, estimates and goals. Words such as "expects," "anticipates," "intends," "plans," "believes," and "estimates," and variations of such words and similar expressions, identify such forward-looking statements. The company's business is subject to numerous risks and uncertainties, including probable variability in quarterly operating results, risks associated with the operation of a wafer fabrication facility and the construction of a second facility, the company's ability to manage rapid growth, variability in production yields, manufacturing capacity constraints, dependence on a limited number of customers, dependence on third parties and risks that the inventions referenced in patent applications will not mature to issued patents or will infringe upon intellectual property rights of third parties. These and other risks and uncertainties, which are described in more detail in the company's Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, could cause actual results and developments to be materially different from those expressed or implied by any of these forward-looking statements.

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