Hittite Microwave Achieves Automotive Quality Management System Certification

CHELMSFORD, Mass., Jan. 6, 2006 -- Hittite Microwave Corporation today announced it has received its ISO/TS 16949:2002 certification for the design, manufacture, and sale of plastic- encapsulated analog and mixed-signal ICs for RF, microwave and millimeterwave applications for the automotive industry. ISO/TS 16949 is a Quality Management System which specifies automotive industry quality and manufacturing standards that are more stringent then ISO 9001:2000 requirements.

In addition to receiving this new certification, the company was recertified to the ISO 9001:2000 standard, which it has maintained since 1997. The company was audited and certified by TUV Management Service, Munich, Germany.

About Hittite Microwave Corporation

Hittite Microwave is an innovative designer and developer of high- performance integrated circuits, or ICs, modules and subsystems for technically demanding radio frequency, or RF, microwave and millimeterwave applications. Products include amplifiers, attenuators, frequency dividers and detectors, frequency multipliers, mixers and converters, modulators, oscillators, phase shifters, sensors, and switches. Hittite's products are used in a variety of applications and end markets including automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, fiber optic, microwave and millimeterwave communications, military, space, and test and measurement. The company utilizes radio frequency integrated circuits (RFIC), monolithic microwave integrated circuits (MMIC), multi-chip modules (MCM) and microwave integrated circuit (MIC) technologies. The company is headquartered in Chelmsford, MA.