Profile: Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (SWKS.O)

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Skyworks) offers diverse standard and custom linear products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military and cellular handset applications. The Company’s portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure radio frequency (RF) subsystems, mixers/demodulators, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and technical ceramics. It has aligned the product portfolio around two markets: cellular handsets and analog semiconductors. The handset portfolio includes customized power amplifiers and front-end solutions, from entry level to multimedia platforms and smart phones. Its primary handset customers include LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion and HTC.

The Company’s product portfolio includes Amplifiers, the modules that strengthen the signal so that it has energy to reach a base station; Attenuators, circuits that allow a known source of power to be reduced by a predetermined factor; Detectors, intended for use in power management applications; Diodes, semiconductor devices that pass current in one direction only; Directional Couplers, transmission coupling devices for separately sampling the forward or backward wave in a transmission line; Front-End Modules, power amplifiers that are integrated with switches, diplexers, filters and other components to create a single package front-end solution.

Hybrid is a type of directional coupler used in radio and telecommunications; Infrastructure RF Subsystems is an integrated transceivers and power amplifiers for wireless base station applications; MIS Silicon Chip Capacitors is used in applications requiring DC blocking and RF bypassing, or as a fixed capacitance tuning element in filters, oscillators, and matching networks; Switches are components that perform the change between the transmit and receive function, as well as the band function for cellular handsets, and Synthesizers provides ultra-fine frequency resolution, fast switching speed, and low phase-noise performance.

The Company competes with Analog Devices, Hittite Microwave, Linear Technology, and Maxim Integrated Products.