Skyworks Enables Samsung`s Newest Handsets, Including Popular Touch Screen Mobile Phones

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Mon Jun 1, 2009 8:00am EDT

Secures Design Wins for over 10 Additional Multimode Platforms
WOBURN, Mass.--(Business Wire)--
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS), an innovator of high reliability analog
and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, today
announced that Samsung is leveraging its EDGE front-end solutions to power a
variety of new handsets including the S5230 mobile phone, one of several new
full touch-screen offerings recently launched in European markets. In addition,
Skyworks is supporting the Samsung S3310, an ultra thin quad band GSM/EDGE candy
bar mobile phone capable of global roaming. 

"Skyworks is delighted to support Samsung as it enhances its position as a
leading player in the hugely popular touch screen mobile market," said Liam K.
Griffin, Skyworks` senior vice president of sales and marketing. "We look
forward to further strengthening our partnership with Samsung as they add to
their portfolio of innovative platforms that combine all essential multimedia
functionality into a single device." 

About Samsung`s New Handsets

Measuring just 11.9 millimeters (mm), the S5230 has a three inch auto-rotating
touch screen containing Samsung`s patented TouchWiz user interface, making
entering data and text simple with finger-swipe navigation. The handset also
contains a QWERTY keyboard, and comes with a built-in 3.0 megapixel (MP) camera
that can record quarter video graphics array (QVGA) resolution video at 15
frames per second. The phone also supports domain names search engine for better
sound quality. 

With just a 2.1 inch thin film transistor (TFT) display, the S3310 contains QVGA
resolution with 16 million colors. The 2.0 MP camera provides up to 30 frames
per second of video recording capabilities. Additional features include an MP3
player and FM tuner with radio data system (RDS), Bluetooth 2.1 and universal
serial bus (USB) 2.0 connectivity, 30 megabytes (MB) of internal memory, and a
slot for microSDHC memory cards up to 8 gigabytes (GB). 

About Skyworks

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed
signal semiconductors. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks offers diverse
standard and custom linear products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular
infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military and mobile
handset applications. The Company`s portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators,
detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids,
infrastructure RF subsystems, mixers/demodulators, phase shifters,
PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and
technical ceramics. 

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 Skyworks` Web site at:
www.skyworksinc.com. 

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materially and adversely from those projected, and may affect our future
operating results, financial position and cash flows. 

These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: unprecedented
uncertainty regarding global economic and financial market conditions; the
susceptibility of the wireless 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; changes in laws, regulations and/or policies in
the United States that could adversely affect 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 and 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; 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; 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 the Securities and Exchange Commission. 

These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we
undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements,
whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise. 

Note to Editors: Skyworks, Skyworks Solutions are trademarks or registered
trademarks of Skyworks Solutions, Inc. or its subsidiaries in the United States
and in other countries. All other brands and names listed are trademarks of
their respective companies.

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