HILLSBORO, Ore., 6 Sept. 2007. TriQuint Semiconductor, a manufacturer of wireless products, has completed the acquisition of Peak Devices Inc., of Boulder, Colo., in a cash transaction. Peak Devices is a privately held, fabless semiconductor company that focuses on RF discrete transistor technology.
Ralph Quinsey, TriQuint chief executive officer (CEO), remarks that Peak's technology may enable the software definable radio, which has long been a target of the wireless industry. Peak has developed proprietary semiconductor technology in which a single-ide bandwidth amplifier may replace multiple high-power multiplexer-combined-amplifiers.
Peak Devices CEO Bill McCalpin will lead the new TriQuint Colorado operation. He says, "I believe the combination of TriQuint's advanced semiconductor technologies such as GaN (Gallium Nitride) and High Voltage HBT with our wideband circuit technology will bring high-power RF amplifiers to new levels of performance."
