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RFMD POLARIS Transceiver Achieves FTA

September 21, 2003 by Jeff Shepard

RF Micro Devices Inc. (RFMD, Greensboro, NC), a provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communications applications, announced that its POLARIS™ TOTAL RADIO™ transceiver has achieved Full Type Approval (FTA) with Chi Mei, a leading Taiwanese handset original design manufacturer. The POLARIS transceiver is a fully integrated quad-band transceiver solution with a fully integrated digital interface between the handset's baseband and radio.

This marks the first time FTA has been achieved in a handset using RFMD's POLARIS TOTAL RADIO transceiver. FTA is the official certificate of conformance to GSM/GPRS standards, and all GSM/GPRS handsets must pass FTA before being released to the market. FTA is the most significant milestone in the certification of GSM/GPRS handsets as it represents the final approval before production shipments begin. Chi Mei expects to produce GSM/GPRS handsets, modules and PC cards using the POLARIS TOTAL RADIO transceiver for original equipment manufacturers. Shipments of the POLARIS TOTAL RADIO transceiver are expected to begin in the December 2003 quarter with mass production volume to commence in the March 2004 quarter.