Skyworks Surpasses Two Billion Power Amplifier Module Shipments
August 11 2008 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), an innovator of high
performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile
connectivity, today announced that it has shipped more than two
billion power amplifier (PA) modules since product inception near
the turn of the decade. The company is an architectural pioneer of
PA and complete front-end modules (FEM) and today uniquely supplies
to each of the world�s top five handset OEMs and two leading
smartphone manufacturers. At the same time, Skyworks has developed
design partnerships with all of the industry�s leading baseband
suppliers and, most recently, has captured key sockets on Qualcomm
and MediaTek reference designs. �We are thrilled to surpass the two
billion PA module mark and are even more excited about the
design-win traction of our next generation of multimode Intera�
front-end modules,� said Liam K. Griffin, senior vice president of
sales and marketing at Skyworks. �Given the strength of our product
pipeline, Skyworks is benefiting from the trend towards highly
integrated, multi-band FEMs for 3G, EDGE, LTE and WLAN
applications. In fact, new product ramps of our content-rich
Intera� portfolio coupled with our diversification initiatives is
positioning Skyworks to outpace our addressable markets this
quarter and moving forward.� About Intera� Skyworks is a market
leader in delivering switching solutions and PA modules in gallium
arsenide (GaAs) pseudomorphic high electron mobile transistor
(pHEMT) and heterojunction bipolar transistor (HBT). Through
Skyworks� integration of these devices, the company has created a
complete line of Intera� FEMs, which includes connectivity
solutions for GSM, GPRS, EDGE and WCDMA, as well as CDMA, WLAN and
WiMAX applications. About Skyworks Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an
innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal
semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity. The company's power
amplifiers, front-end modules and direct conversion radios are at
the heart of many of today's leading-edge multimedia handsets.
Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks also offers a diverse
portfolio of linear products that support automotive, broadband,
cellular infrastructure, industrial and medical applications.
Headquartered in Woburn, Mass., Skyworks is worldwide with
engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout
Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please visit
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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; the
availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry,
assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our ability to timely
and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry
standards, and to identify opportunities in new markets; 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; 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
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than expected product life cycles; problems or delays that we may
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