15 November 2011

TriQuint supports ZTE’s Blade and new Skate smartphones

RF front-end product and foundry services provider TriQuint Semiconductor Inc of Hillsboro, OR, USA says that its power amplifier modules are incorporated into the ZTE Blade and the new ZTE Skate, two models in the global line of smartphones made by wireless communication equipment maker ZTE Corp of Shenzhen, China.

The Blade and Skate feature the TQM7M5012H and TQM7M5022 modules, respectively. Both products are part of TriQuint’s RF front-end line of discrete power amplifier modules. TriQuint claims that its success is due in large part to its CuFlip technology, a strategic differentiator enabling superior RF performance, design flexibility, faster manufacturing and lower costs.

The Skate is expected to build on the success of the Blade smartphone, which has been ZTE’s flagship product. The Blade was one of the first smartphones priced below €100 when it launched in the European market in fourth-quarter 2010. After launching in China this April, Blade won awards for best market performance and best Chinese-made 3G phone. As a key step in ZTE’s entry into the middle-to-high end smartphone market, ZTE announced the new Skate with Android 2.3. After September launches in Brazil, Spain and Hong Kong, Skate’s global rollout will continue this year in European countries including the UK and France, in Asian countries including Malaysia, Indonesia and China, and in the USA.

“We congratulate ZTE on becoming one of the world's top five international mobile manufacturers, and we are pleased to support its broad portfolio of smartphones,” says TriQuint’s president & CEO Ralph Quinsey. “More and more consumers are choosing smartphones. TriQuint’s RF technology allows phone vendors to meet attractive cost points while still delivering a feature-rich smartphone,” he adds.

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