RF Micro Devices Announces Production Shipments for Telematics System.

Business Editors/High Tech Writers

GREENSBORO, N.C.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 6, 2001

RFMD(R) GaAs HBT Power Amplifiers Used In Tele Aid

RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq: RFMD), a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, announced today that it has begun production shipments of power amplifiers for use in Tele Aid, a telematics system developed by Motorola and Mercedes-Benz.

Telematics systems use a wireless network to collect and disseminate data. Mobile telematics applications include vehicle tracking and positioning, on-line navigation and emergency assistance. The Tele Aid is a standard feature on all model year 2001 Mercedes-Benz vehicles and provides drivers with automatic emergency response, roadside assistance and product information.

"We are very pleased that our power amplifiers have been selected for use in this state-of-the-art telematics system," said Dave Norbury, RFMD's president and CEO. "This announcement underscores the significant new opportunities we have to supply wireless solutions for automotive applications."

Greg Thompson, RFMD's director of sales, added, "These power amplifiers help create an innovative product for the automotive industry that gives consumers a variety of different services. We look forward to further complementing our core handset business by supplying wireless components for telematics and other non-handset applications such as Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs), wireless modems and wireless WANs."

RF Micro Devices is providing two power amplifiers for the Tele Aid system. These high-power, high-efficiency linear power amplifiers are manufactured using an advanced Gallium Arsenide Heterojunction Bipolar Transistor (GaAs HBT) process technology.

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. In the September 4, 2000 issue of FORTUNE magazine, RF Micro Devices was ranked second among FORTUNE's "100 Fastest Growing Companies." 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, the rate of growth and development of wireless markets, dependence on a limited number of customers and dependence on 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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