GREENSBORO, N.C., April 10, 2012 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- RF Micro Devices,
Inc. (Nasdaq:RFMD) announced today that Jerry Neal, co-founder and
executive vice president of marketing, is retiring from RFMD, effective
May 31, 2012.

Jerry Neal has had a distinguished career in the communications
technology industry, including the co-founding of RFMD and his role in
the subsequent growth of RFMD. As a co-founder of RFMD, Mr. Neal was
responsible for securing the Company's initial venture capital
investment, as well as multiple licensing deals, branding, and mergers
and acquisitions. Mr. Neal was also primarily responsible for many of
the Company's corporate relationships, including TRW (now Northrop
Grumman), Nokia, IBM, TowerJazz, and others.

Reflecting on his twenty-one year career at RFMD, Mr. Neal commented,
"RFMD is both a pioneer and a global leader in communications
technologies, and it is an honor to have played a major role in
starting and building the Company. With my retirement from RFMD, I look
forward to pursuing other passions in my life including
entrepreneurial, advisory, and charitable endeavors. I sincerely wish
the greatest success to my many friends and colleagues at RFMD."

Bob Bruggeworth, president and chief executive officer of RFMD, said,
"RFMD has benefited tremendously from Jerry Neal's contributions and
expertise. I personally have enjoyed working with Jerry and have valued
his counsel and the strategic relationships he has built in the
industry. All of RFMD wishes Jerry Neal much success as he focuses his
time and energy on other ventures."

Jerry Neal is active in business, education, and charitable
organizations and has served on the Boards of Directors of several
semiconductor companies. He currently serves on the ALSAC Leadership
Council at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, the Board of
Directors of Victory Junction Gang Camp and the Board of Directors of
Richard Petty Motorsports. Mr. Neal has also served on the Board of
Visitors at the Babcock Graduate School of Management at Wake Forest
University and regularly speaks to civic organizations and universities
on a variety of business and inspirational topics. Mr. Neal recently
developed Linbrook Heritage Estate, an agri-tourism business with
numerous attractions and serves on the Randolph County (North Carolina)
Tourism Development Authority Board of Directors.

About RFMD

RF Micro Devices, Inc. (Nasdaq:RFMD) is a global leader in the design
and manufacture of high-performance radio frequency components and
compound semiconductor technologies. RFMD's products enable worldwide
mobility, provide enhanced connectivity and support advanced
functionality in the cellular handset, wireless infrastructure,
wireless local area network (WLAN), CATV/broadband and aerospace and
defense markets. RFMD is recognized for its diverse portfolio of
semiconductor technologies and RF systems expertise and is a preferred
supplier to the world's leading mobile device, customer premises and
communications equipment providers.

Headquartered in Greensboro, N.C., RFMD is an ISO 9001- and ISO
14001-certified manufacturer with worldwide engineering, design, sales
and service facilities. RFMD is traded on the NASDAQ Global Select
Market under the symbol RFMD. For more information, please visit RFMD's
web site at www.rfmd.com.

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actual results, events and performance could differ materially from
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intend to update any of these forward-looking statements or publicly
announce the results of any revisions to these forward-looking
statements, other than as is required under the federal securities
laws. RF Micro Devices' business is subject to numerous risks and
uncertainties, including variability in operating results, risks
associated with the impact of global macroeconomic and credit
conditions on our business and the business of our suppliers and
customers, our reliance on a few large customers for a substantial
portion of our revenue, the rate of growth and development of wireless
markets, our ability to bring new products to market, our reliance on
inclusion in third party reference designs for a portion of our
revenue, our ability to manage channel partner and customer
relationships, risks associated with the operation of our wafer
fabrication, molecular beam epitaxy, assembly and test and tape and
reel facilities, our ability to complete acquisitions and integrate
acquired companies, including the risk that we may not realize expected
synergies from our business combinations, our ability to attract and
retain skilled personnel and develop leaders, variability in production
yields, raw material costs and availability, our ability to reduce
costs and improve margins in response to declining average selling
prices, our ability to adjust production capacity in a timely fashion
in response to changes in demand for our products, dependence on
gallium arsenide (GaAs) for the majority of our products, dependence on
third parties, and substantial reliance on international sales and
operations. These and other risks and uncertainties, which are
described in more detail in RF Micro Devices' most recent Annual Report
on Form 10-K and other reports and statements filed with the Securities
and Exchange Commission, could cause actual results and developments to
be materially different from those expressed or implied by any of these
forward-looking statements.




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