"Todd A. DeBonis is a veteran semiconductor executive with over 27 years of expertise in sales, marketing and corporate development. For the last decade, Mr. DeBonis was the Vice President of Global Sales and Strategic Development at TriQuint Semiconductor. During his tenure TriQuint experienced dramatic growth and recognition in the industry as the technology leader in RF solutions. Mr. DeBonis played an integral part in the recent merger with RFMD and subsequent creation of Qorvo, Inc."

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"Their customer profile is impressive: TriQuint's largest client was Apple contractor Foxconn, and TriQuint chips have been in each of the last several iterations of the iPhone. RFMD's largest customer was Samsung, the world's largest smartphone manufacturer.

Qorvo is now the third-largest company in the specialized niche for RF (radio frequency) computer chips, trailing Avago and Skyworks. Rather than challenge its bigger rivals straight on, Bruggeworth said Qorvo expects to gain ground as smaller RF companies are unable to keep pace with new technologies and gradually fall away.

"Do we have aspirations for taking share? Yeah," he said. "But I don't want you to think we're going to be out there fighting head to head."

If the logic behind the TriQuint-RFMD deal seems unassailable in hindsight, the easy question is why it didn't happen sooner. It's a question Bruggeworth won't address: "Why we kept talking is more important," he said. "We both saw the same thing: We both saw how the industry was going to play out."

What's happened, Bruggeworth maintains, is more than just increased demand. As the wireless industry consolidated, he said it was inevitable that suppliers would, too.

And Qorvo was created at the right moment to capitalize, pooling their product lines to cater to big clients like Apple who own a bigger share of the market and want more wireless components with more functions built onto a single chip.

TriQuint and RFMD were prescient in seeing where the market was headed, according to Tom Diffely, a financial analyst who follows Qorvo for D.A. Davidson in Lake Oswego.

"Chipset after chipset is getting more and more RF inside," he said. "So I think there's going to be nice double-digit growth over the next two years."

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