Qorvo Inc QRVO

Qorvo, Inc., incorporated on December 13, 2013, is a provider of technologies and radio frequency (RF) solutions for mobile, infrastructure and defense and aerospace applications. The Company designs, develops, manufactures and markets its products to the United States and international original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and original design manufacturers (ODMs). Its segments include Mobile Products (MP) and Infrastructure and Defense Products (IDP). The Company operates design, sales and manufacturing facilities located throughout Asia, Europe and North America. Its primary manufacturing facilities are located in North Carolina, Oregon, Texas and Florida, and its primary assembly and test facilities are located in China, Costa Rica and Texas.

The Company offers a range of amplification, filtering and switching products for RF, microwave and millimeter-wave applications. The Company utilizes specialized substrate materials and high-performance process technologies, such as gallium arsenide (GaAs), gallium nitride (GaN), silicon-on-insulator (SOI), pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistors (pHEMTs), bulk acoustic wave (BAW) and silicon germanium (SiGe). Its mobile product portfolio includes its high-performance RF Fusion line of integrated radio frequency (RF) solutions. It also offers RF Flex modules, which leverage its deep systems-level expertise to integrate core cellular transmit and receive functionality into high-performance multiband Power Amplifier (PA) modules and transmit modules. Its other products include filters, duplexers, switches, transmit modules, modules incorporating switches, PAs and duplexers (S-PADs), RF power management integrated circuits (ICs), antenna tuning and control solutions, multimode, multi-band PAs and other advanced products.

The Company sells products that support the transfer of voice, video and data across wireless and wired infrastructure. The Company offers a range of products for these applications, including low-noise, variable-gain, driver and power amplifiers, single and dual band wireless local area network (WLAN) modules, digital and analog attenuators, voltage-controlled oscillators (VCOs), switches, surface acoustic wave (SAW) filters, BAW filters, and multi-chip modules that integrate multiple functions. It sells amplifier and RF filtering products for various applications that enable wireless connectivity, including wireless fidelity (WiFi) used in consumer premises equipment and enterprise wireless access points and automotive satellite radio, long term evolution (LTE) and infotainment applications. It sells products that support the explosion of connected devices under the umbrella of the Internet of Things (IoT). These products include amplifier and RF filtering products for automotive applications, including automotive infotainment, satellite radios, radar and telematics, and various industrial applications, including smart energy/advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) systems.

Mobile Products

The MP segment is a supplier of RF solutions that perform various functions in the complex cellular radio front end section of smartphones and other cellular devices. These RF solutions are required in fourth generation (4G) data-centric devices operating under LTE 4G networks, as well as third generation (3G) and second generation (2G) mobile devices. Its solutions include complete RF front end modules that combine high-performance filters, power amplifiers (PAs), low noise amplifiers (LNAs) and switches, PA modules, transmit modules, antenna control solutions, antenna switch modules, diversity receive modules and envelope tracking (ET) power management devices. MP supplies its portfolio of RF solutions into a range of mobile devices, including smartphones, notebook computers, wearables, tablets and cellular-based applications for the IoT.

Infrastructure and Defense Products

The IDP segment is a supplier of RF solutions that support various global applications, including ubiquitous high-speed network connectivity to the cloud, data center communications, Internet connectivity throughout the home and workplace, and upgraded military capabilities across the globe. Its IDP products include high power GaAs and GaN PAs, LNAs, switches, RF filter solutions, CMOS system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions and various multichip and hybrid assemblies. Its RF solutions for defense and aerospace upgrade communications and radar systems for air, land and sea. Its RF solutions for the IoT enable the connected car and an array of industrial applications, and the Company serves the home automation market with SoC solutions based on ZigBee and Bluetooth Smart technologies.

The Company competes with Analog Devices, Inc., Broadcom Limited, M/A-COM Technology Solutions, Inc., Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Qualcomm Technologies, Inc., Raytheon Company, Skyworks Solutions, Inc. and Sumitomo Electric Device Innovations.