Skyworks Solutions (SWKS)

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Abdul Seleh

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Skyworks Solutions, Inc. was formed through the merger of the wireless business of Conexant Systems, Inc. and Alpha Industries, Inc. on June 25, 2002. The company is headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts. Skyworks Solutions designs, manufactures, and markets wireless semiconductor solutions for the mobile communications industry. The company has the building blocks, such as RF ICs, mixed-signal cores, and digital baseband technology, to leverage on this expertise over multiple platforms and achieve economy of scale. The company's products include power amplifiers (PAs), front-end modules (FEMs), RF subsystems, and cellular systems. The company has designed its product portfolio around two markets mobile platforms and linear products. The mobile platform solutions include highly customized PAs, FEMs, and integrated RF transceivers. The primary customers for these products are top-tier handset manufacturers such as Sony Ericsson, Motorola, Samsung, LG Electronics and Research in Motion. SWKS also offers over 800 different linear products such as precision analog integrated circuits that target markets in cellular infrastructure, broadband networking, medical, automotive and industrial applications. The primary customers for linear products include Ericsson, Huawei, Alcatel-Lucent, ZTE and Broadcom, as well as leading distributors such as Avnet.

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