(Credit: Qorvo)
Factory Locations: Greensboro, NC; Hillsboro, OR; and Richardson, TX
Products Produced in US: RF switches, filters, power amplifiers, antenna tuners, RF front-ends
Qorvo was founded in 2015 from the merger of RF Micro and TriQuint, and it makes semiconductors around the world. The company's largest customer is Apple, which uses many Qorvo RF chips. Qorvo's gallium nitride chipsets also go into 5G base stations. Qorvo makes UWB chips, too: Both Samsung and Apple made “ultra wideband” positioning technology mainstream in their phones in 2021.