Qorvo® Expands RF Flex™ Portfolio to Accelerate

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 27, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) --

Qorvo® (Nasdaq: QRVO ), a leading provider of innovative RF solutions that connect the world, today announced the expansion of its RF Flex™ RF front end (RFFE) product portfolio. Qorvo’s new Gen-5 portfolio of RF Flex RFFEs combines high performance with design flexibility, allowing manufacturers to rapidly develop and launch mid-tier smartphones that meet the challenging requirements of carrier aggregation (CA). Mid-tier smartphones represent the largest and fastest-growing segment of the smartphone market.

Eric Creviston, president of Qorvo’s Mobile Products group, said, “Leading smartphone manufacturers helped drive the rapid adoption of our highly adaptable and scalable RF Flex modules in 2016. Our newest RF Flex RFFEs, the Gen-5 portfolio, build on this success and support both uplink and downlink CA to dramatically reduce handset design cycles and accelerate the introduction of mid-tier smartphones.”  

Smartphone manufacturers can customize the RF Flex Gen-5 portfolio by adding Qorvo’s premium filters for regional coverage. RF Flex Gen-5 supports all major 4G basebands.

RF Flex Gen-5 delivers industry-leading power output and linearity and ultra-low insertion loss across low, medium and high bands. This maximizes performance headroom, helping smartphone makers meet the challenging requirements for intra-band uplink CA as well as three-carrier inter-band downlink CA.

About Qorvo’s RF Flex Gen-5 portfolio:

The QM56022

• Features low-, medium- and high-band PAs and band-select switches in the most popular footprint for mid-tier smartphones
• Delivers superior linearity, output power and current consumption, meeting strict operator requirements for uplink intra-band CA
• Supports the newly-emerging standard for Power Class 2/High Performance User Equipment (HPUE) on Band 41

The QM57508

• Features an antenna coupler and 2G PA module optimized to overcome the increasing post PA losses in today’s most complex antenna configurations 
• Includes a low-loss, high throw count switch supporting CA
• Supports three-antenna architectures, offering excellent isolation and rejection with four high-band, five mid-band and seven low-band TRx ports

Qorvo’s high-performance RF solutions simplify design, reduce product footprint, conserve power, improve system performance and accelerate the adoption of carrier aggregation. Qorvo combines systems-level expertise, broad manufacturing scale, and the industry’s most comprehensive product and technology portfolio to help leading manufacturers accelerate the delivery of next-generation LTE, LTE-A, pre-5G/5G and IoT products. Qorvo's core RF solutions set the standard for next-gen connectivity, delivering unmatched integration and performance at the heart of the connected world.

Qorvo is at the forefront of Solving RF Complexity™ and is showcasing its industry-leading portfolio of advanced RF Front End solutions at Mobile World Congress ( MWC 2017 ), from February 27 through March 2 in Hall 2, Stand 2i25.

About Qorvo Qorvo (NASDAQ: QRVO ) makes a better world possible by providing innovative RF solutions at the center of connectivity. We combine product and technology leadership, systems-level expertise and global manufacturing scale to quickly solve our customers' most complex technical challenges. Qorvo serves diverse high-growth segments of large global markets, including advanced wireless devices, wired and wireless networks and defense radar and communications.  We also leverage our unique competitive strengths to advance 5G networks, cloud computing, the Internet of Things, and other emerging applications that expand the global framework interconnecting people, places and things. Visit www.qorvo.com to learn how Qorvo connects the world.

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