World’s Third Largest OEM Leveraging 10
Skyworks Devices Including the Low, Mid and High Band Architectures
of the SkyOne® Ultra 2.0 with SkyBlue™ Enabling Technology;
Solutions Solve LTE Advanced Carrier Aggregation Challenges
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS), an innovator of
high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places
and things, today announced that Huawei’s newest flagship P9 and P9
Plus smartphones are being enabled by a broad suite of Skyworks
devices ranging from highly integrated modules to industry-leading
analog control ICs. Specifically, Huawei’s latest mobile platforms
are utilizing the low, mid, and high band architectures of the
SkyOne® Ultra 2.0 featuring integrated filters and SkyBlue™
technology, antenna tuners, power management devices and
multi-throw switches. Skyworks’ products address LTE advanced
carrier aggregation standards and support up to nine global
combinations, including the two most challenging mid-band/mid-band
cases. To view a teardown of the P9 smartphone from ABI Research,
please click here.
“Huawei’s adoption of multiple solutions from our broad
portfolio further solidifies Skyworks leadership position with the
world’s leading smartphone providers,” said Carlos Bori, vice
president of sales and marketing for Skyworks. “Given our systems
expertise and innovative designs, Skyworks is able to offer
customers highly configurable and customized architectures that
reduce complexity and deliver unparalleled performance. We are
adeptly addressing carrier aggregation challenges and increasing
frequency bands, while minimizing board size and optimizing battery
life to provide competitive advantages and reduced time to
market.”
“By leveraging Skyworks’ analog and RF expertise, Huawei is
pleased to be offering P9 users one of the highest consumer
experiences with smartphones,” said Huawei. “Skyworks’ advanced
solutions are enabling unrivaled new features in the P9 and P9 Plus
including a virtual triple-antenna architecture designed for
consumers who need robust and seamless connectivity to cellular and
Wi-Fi networks, allowing them to fully harness the power of the
mobile Internet no matter where they are in the world.”
According to a forecast by GfK, China smartphone demand in 2016
is stronger than expected and could reach 442 million units, an
increase of seven percent when compared to last year. In 2012,
Huawei became the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer and
in 2015 was the first Chinese company to sell more than 100 million
mobile phones in one year.
About Skyworks’ Broad Product PortfolioThe following
solutions are powering Huawei’s P9 and P9 Plus platforms:
- SkyOne® Ultra 2.0 – a highly
integrated single SKU LTE platform with flexible antenna support
and a baseband agnostic interface which contains the company’s
revolutionary SkyBlue™ technology for best in class power
efficiencies and linear power capability:SKY78113 – Low Band 3G/4G
Tx-Rx SkyOne® ModuleSKY78114 – Mid Band 3G/4G Tx-Rx SkyOne®
ModuleSKY78117 – High Band 3G/4G Tx-Rx SkyOne® Module
- SKY77360-12 – 2G Power Amplifier
Module
- SKY87020-11 – RF Front-end Power
Management IC
- SKY19003 – Antenna Tuner
- SKY19225 – Antenna Tuner
- SKY13351 – Wi-Fi Single Pole, Double
Throw Switch
- SKY13552 – Double Pole 12 Throw
Switch
- SKY13598 – High Isolation Antenna Swap
Switch
For more information, please contact sales@skyworksinc.com.
About Huawei’s Consumer Business GroupHuawei's products
and services are available in more than 170 countries and are used
by a third of the world's population, ranking third in the world in
mobile phone shipments in 2014. Sixteen R&D centers have been
set up in the United
States, Germany, Sweden, Russia, India,
and China. Huawei Consumer Business Group is one of Huawei's
three business units and covers smartphones, mobile broadband
devices, home devices and cloud services. Huawei's global network
is built on 20 years of expertise in the telecom industry and is
dedicated to delivering the latest technological advances to
consumers around the world. For more information please
visit: http://consumer.huawei.com
About SkyworksSkyworks Solutions, Inc. is empowering the
wireless networking revolution. Our highly innovative analog
semiconductors are connecting people, places, and things, spanning
a number of new and previously unimagined applications within the
automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home,
industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and wearable
markets.
Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, Skyworks is a global
company with engineering, marketing, operations, sales, and service
facilities located throughout Asia, Europe and North America. For
more information, please visit Skyworks’ website at:
www.skyworksinc.com.
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These risks, uncertainties and other important factors include,
but are not limited to: uncertainty regarding global economic and
financial market conditions; the susceptibility of the
semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by our, and our
customers', products to economic downturns; the timing,
rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our
ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage
inventory; losses or curtailments of purchases or payments from key
customers, or the timing of customer inventory adjustments; the
availability and pricing of third-party semiconductor foundry,
assembly and test capacity, raw materials and supplier components;
changes in laws, regulations and/or policies that could adversely
affect either (i) the economy and our customers’ demand for our
products or (ii) the financial markets and our ability to raise
capital; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative
products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing
technological environment; economic, social, military and
geo-political conditions in the countries in which we, our
customers or our suppliers operate, including security and health
risks, possible disruptions in transportation networks and
fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; fluctuations in
our manufacturing yields due to our complex and specialized
manufacturing processes; delays or disruptions in production due to
equipment maintenance, repairs and/or upgrades; our reliance on
several key customers for a large percentage of our sales;
fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third-party
semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the
fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; our
ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and
evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new
markets; uncertainties of litigation, including potential disputes
over intellectual property infringement and rights, as well as
payments related to the licensing and/or sale of such rights; our
ability to rapidly develop new products and avoid product
obsolescence; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key
executives, technical personnel and other employees in the
positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at
the compensation levels needed to implement our business and
product plans; lengthy product development cycles that impact the
timing of new product introductions; unfavorable changes in product
mix; the quality of our products and any remediation costs;
shorter-than-expected product life cycles; problems or delays that
we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process
technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration;
and our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual
property portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties,
as well as other risks and uncertainties, including, but not
limited to, those detailed from time to time in our filings with
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