Peter Asbeck (born September 7, 1947) is an American engineer, currently the Skyworks Professor in High Performance Communications Devices and Circuits at the

University of California, San Diego The University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego in communications material, formerly and colloquially UCSD) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in San Diego, California, United States. Es ...

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, and a publisher author. He is a member of the

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. for contributions to heterojunction bipolar transistor and integrated circuit technology. He is a power amplifier expert. In 2000, Peter Asbeck was elevated to

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fellow for development of heterostructure bipolar transistors and applications.

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