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What is your opinion of RF Micro Devices?

Good - I work for them now or have in the past	48%	[ 11 ]
Bad - I work for them now or have in the past	4%	[ 1 ]
Good - I have only dealt with them	39%	[ 9 ]
Bad - I have only dealt with them	9%	[ 2 ]

Total votes : 23

Kirt Blattenberger

Post subject: RF Micro Devices

Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 7:37 pm

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Joined: Sun Aug 03, 2003 2:02 pm
Posts: 308
Location: Erie, PA

Please use your personal experience with RF Micro Devices when voting in the poll.

Thanks.

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Simon Liu

Post subject: Comments

Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 10:47 am

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Joined: Wed Jan 05, 2005 2:20 am
Posts: 4
Location: BeiJing,China

I work for RFMD since I graduated from college in ShangHai. At that time, they just build new factory in Beijing for IC electrical verification. I learned a lot. And now they have assembly line in Beijing and design center has just builded up in ShangHai.

The only thing is that they don't even provide stock option to Beijing guys.

rftroubleshooter

Post subject:

Posted: Wed May 16, 2007 4:40 pm

Captain

Joined: Wed May 16, 2007 4:16 pm
Posts: 5

I have been working with RFMD parts on and off for over a decade. If you are small company (translate: not a cellular phone company), you will find it very difficult to get technical support from them.

I am using the RF2172 power amp in a design right now and I have received zero support for the part. Being a PA, it is tricky and touchy and moody; all good reasons to call up the company for tips and tricks when using it. I got nothing from RFMD. I did, however, get a SemTech engineer who knows the RFMD part really well to help me out.

Steve Montgomery
The RF Troubleshooter
www.rftroubleshooter.com

gangsway

Post subject: Re: RF Micro Devices

Posted: Fri Oct 30, 2009 5:12 am

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Joined: Tue Nov 11, 2008 5:03 am
Posts: 11
Location: Shanghai, China

I know some of RFMD's parts are from sirenza micro devices, Sirenza used to chose GiGa solution, and third part testing, some of parts not a good design, like 26 pcakage.

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LM317

Post subject: Re: RF Micro Devices

Posted: Fri Jan 22, 2010 10:30 am

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Joined: Tue May 20, 2008 8:13 pm
Posts: 5

I have always had good experiences working with RFMD. MY first time with them was actually getting a couple parts for my college Sr. project. The tech engineer I talked to Lon [something - can't remember last names] was a great source of knowledge. It's been almost 10 years since then and I still try to use their parts for my wireless designs. It's good policy to be nice to students :lol:

Posted 11/12/2012

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