TriQuint to open North Carolina design centre
The new design centre location provides easy airport access and is near universities with 'feeder' engineering programs. The design centre, in light of strong customer activity, will further expand the company's product development activities. Recently, TriQuint opened a new 25-person design centre in Chelmsford, MA that consolidated two offices in New England.
Locating the new centre in North Carolina was supported in part by a grant from the City of High Point, NC and its economic development council. TriQuint representatives said the High Point community's desire to attract high-tech business interests played a part in the company's decision to locate a design centre there.
"This new facility -- our second to open in less than a year and our sixth product development location overall -- will bolster design activity and supplement existing resources," said Brian Balut, TriQuint Vice President. TriQuint's growth in this area is fuelled by worldwide demand for highly integrated modules that reduce power consumption while cutting overall bill of material (BOM) costs to manufacturers.
"The new centre will further enhance TriQuint's creative resources and foster collaboration among engineers and scientific experts from both within the company and our customers throughout the Eastern Seaboard and our European staff. The centre's development focus is to leverage TriQuint's wireless expertise, translating that into new solutions for our customers," he added.
Work at the North Carolina centre will touch upon a wide array of gallium arsenide (GaAs) and surface acoustic wave (SAW) technologies. The company expects to move into its new suiteby August 2006. Wireless phone manufacturers are expected to sell more than 900 million handsets in 2006, with major new sales growth in China