RF Micro Devices Adds New Member to Board of Directors
Source/Type: RF Micro Devices, Inc. - Company News Releases

September 23, 2002... GREENSBORO, N.C.
RF Micro Devices, Inc., a leading provider of proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) for wireless communications applications, today announced that Frederick J. Leonberger has been named a member of the board of directors.

Dr. Leonberger was nominated and confirmed by the board as a new director at a September 12, 2002 board meeting. His appointment is effective immediately.

Dr. Leonberger is senior vice president and chief technology officer of JDS Uniphase Corporation, a leading supplier of optical components and modules to the communications industry. He is responsible for technology strategy and is very involved in mergers and acquisitions, research and development and the intellectual property activities of JDS Uniphase. He has served in this position since the merger of Uniphase Corporation and JDS Fitel, which formed JDS Uniphase in July 1999. Previously, he was senior vice president and chief technology officer of Uniphase and was responsible for the company's strategic technology directions and the coordination of its technology and product development activities. Dr. Leonberger joined Uniphase upon its acquisition of United Technologies Photonics (UTP) in 1995. He was a co-founder of UTP and served as its general manager from 1992 to 1995. From 1984 to 1991 he was manager of photonics and applied physics at the United Technologies Research Center, and from 1975 to 1984 he was with MIT Lincoln Laboratory, first as a staff member and later as a group leader.

Dr. Leonberger received a B.S.E. degree from the University of Michigan, and S.M., E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, all in electrical engineering. He is a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and the Optical Society of America (OSA), and he is a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He has served as president of the IEEE Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, as Associate Editor of the Journal of Quantum Electronics and of Optics Letters, and as Chairman of several IEEE/OSA conferences. Dr. Leonberger holds over 20 patents and has been awarded the IEEE Quantum Electronics Award, the IEEE LEOS Millennium Medal and the UTC George Meade Medal.

Dave Norbury, chief executive officer of RF Micro Devices, said, "We are pleased to welcome Fred Leonberger to our board of directors. Fred is a proven technologist with an extensive and distinguished record of achievements in the communications industry. We anticipate Fred's technological background will serve to benefit the ongoing development of our technology roadmap and we look forward to his contributions to the board of directors."

Frederick Leonberger said, "RF Micro Devices is a leading communications semiconductor company with impressive strengths in design, development and manufacturing, and I am delighted to join its board. I look forward to working with the management team and other board members to help RFMD continue to maximize its shareholder value and diversify into new high-growth end markets."

RF Micro Devices, Inc., an ISO 9001-certified manufacturer, designs, develops, manufactures and markets proprietary radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) primarily for wireless communications products and applications such as cellular and PCS phones, base stations, wireless LANs, and cable television modems. The Company offers a broad array of products - including amplifiers, mixers, modulators/demodulators, and single-chip receivers, transmitters and transceivers - representing a substantial majority of the RFICs required in wireless subscriber equipment. The Company's strategy is to focus on wireless markets by offering a broad range of standard and custom-designed RFICs in order to position itself as a "one-stop" solution for its customers' RFIC needs. RF Micro Devices, Inc. is traded on the Nasdaq National Market under the symbol RFMD.


Contact:
RF Micro Devices, Inc., Greensboro
Dean Priddy or Doug DeLieto, 336/664-1233

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