Sirenza Microdevices Names Norman Hilgendorf President, SMDI Segment and Appoints Steve Moore as Director, Consumer SBU.

BROOMFIELD, Colo. -- Sirenza Microdevices, Inc. (NASDAQ:SMDI) today announced it has named Norman Hilgendorf president of its SMDI segment, reporting to Robert Van Buskirk, Sirenza president and CEO, and appointed Steve Moore as director of a newly created consumer strategic business unit (SBU), reporting to Norm Hilgendorf.

Mr. Hilgendorf joined Sirenza in January 2000 and has served in various senior sales, marketing, business development and strategic roles since that time, most recently serving as its chief strategy officer since November 2005. From January 1998 to December 1999, he served as vice president and general manager at Richardson Electronics, a distributor of electronics components.

Mr. Moore joined Sirenza through the acquisition of Micro Linear Corporation in October 2006. He joined Micro Linear in May 2002 as director, worldwide applications and had served as Micro Linear's vice president, worldwide sales and applications since April 2005. From May 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Moore served as director of WLAN product marketing for Symbol Technologies, a provider of wireless products and systems used in enterprise mobility solutions.

"Norm's experience and thorough understanding of the SMDI segment's customers, capabilities and products will continue to prove invaluable as we strive to grow our global RF components business," stated Robert Van Buskirk, president and CEO of Sirenza Microdevices. "We expect that under his leadership our SMDI segment and its six market-facing SBUs will continue to expand and diversify, enabling us to better serve our global customer base."

"Following the acquisition of Micro Linear, we created our consumer SBU to further focus on our high-performance RF transceiver business, and to support the digital cordless phone (DCT), personal handy-phone system (PHS) and data networking end markets formerly served by Micro Linear," stated Norm Hilgendorf, president, SMDI segment. "Steve's in-depth knowledge of our consumer customer base and our existing RF component product solutions will enable us to more quickly integrate these new products and end markets into SMDI, and facilitate further growth in our consumer business."

Sirenza Microdevices, Inc.

Sirenza Microdevices is a supplier of radio frequency (RF) components. Headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, with operations in China, Germany and the U.S., Sirenza Microdevices and its subsidiary Premier Devices design and develop RF components for the commercial communications, consumer, and aerospace and defense (A&D) equipment markets. Sirenza's integrated circuit (IC), multi-chip module (MCM) and passive product lines include amplifiers, power amplifiers, cable TV amplifiers, circulators, isolators, mixers, splitters, transformers, couplers, modulators, demodulators, transceivers, tuners, discrete devices, signal source components, government and military specified components, and antennae and receivers for satellite radio. Certifications include ISO 9001:2000 Quality Management System and ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System (registered by QMI). Detailed product information may be found on Sirenza's website at www.sirenza.com and at www.premierdevices.com.

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