RFMD'S POLARIS 2 TOTAL RADIO Solutions Win Major Awards from Leading Electronics Industry Publications
RFMD® (NASDAQ: RFMD), a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, today announced that its industry-leading POLARIS(TM) 2 TOTAL RADIO(TM) solutions have been recognized for product excellence by top electronics industry publications Portable Design, EDN China and Wireless Design & Development. These prestigious awards and recognitions - Portable Design 2005 Editor's Choice Award, EDN China 2005 Innovation Award, Top Product and Wireless Design & Development April 2006 Technology Award - signify the performance, size and cost advantages of RFMD's POLARIS solutions, which enable the world's leading handset manufacturers to design smaller, more feature-rich handsets with increasing levels of functionality.
"Winning not one but three distinguished product awards from our industry's leading publications speaks volumes about the high caliber and exceptional quality of our POLARIS 2 TOTAL RADIO products," said Eric Creviston, Corporate Vice President of Cellular Products at RFMD. "POLARIS is the RF solution in tens of millions of handsets, and we anticipate continued success as new, high-volume handsets featuring our POLARIS products launch in 2006."
"Every year, Portable Design reviews several hundred products intended to make life easier for designers of portable electronic devices," said Tim Pritchard, publisher of Portable Design. "We report the best of these in our magazine and, starting this year, we recognize the best of the best with our Editor's Choice Award. We believe that these products are indicative of the creativity our readers bring to bear, and they're worthy of the wider recognition that this award will bring."
The POLARIS 2 TOTAL RADIO solution was also the recipient of the EDN China 2005 Innovation Award, Top Product, signifying the Company's continued commitment to supporting the growth of advanced wireless communications in emerging markets such as China. RFMD's solution was picked by EDN China editors from a field of 119 eligible products from 43 countries.
Finally, the POLARIS 2 TOTAL RADIO Module, the industry's most highly-integrated, two module transceiver solution for GPRS and EDGE handsets, will be featured in Wireless Design & Development magazine as the winner of the April 2006 Technology Award.