A leading RF semiconductor manufacturer and foundry services provider, TriQuint Semiconductor, announced that Steven R. Grant will join the company July 16, 2008, as Vice President of Worldwide Operations, reporting to President and CEO, Ralph Quinsey. Including purchasing, manufacturing quality and supply chain operations, Mr. Grant will be responsible for TriQuint’s global manufacturing.

Quinsey declared: “I am very excited to have Steve join the team. His experience at the world’s largest and most advanced semiconductor company will bring significant know-how and benefits to TriQuint. We feel fortunate to have attracted such an industry expert.”

Spending the last 27 years at Intel Corporation, Mr. Grant, was most recently Vice President of Intel’s Technology and Manufacturing Group in Oregon. He managed the Fab manufacturing network and was key to driving the manufacturing structure and efficiency improvements to record performance levels during his Intel tenure. Mr. Grant holds a Bachelor of Science in Material Science from the University of Illinois.

Mr. Grant stated: “I’m extremely excited to join TriQuint Semiconductor and confident that my business and operational knowledge can play a solid, contributing role for the company. TriQuint’s RF technology offerings and market strength make it ideally positioned for growth and I’m very pleased to be a member of the TriQuint team during this period of tremendous opportunity,”

Globally employing approximately 2000 people who use their expertise in gallium arsenide (GaAs) as well as surface and bulk acoustic wave (SAW and BAW) technologies, TriQuint Semiconductor is headquartered in Hillsboro, OR, and creates a wide range of RF products and provide GaAs Foundry services to the world’s largest communications companies.