Skyworks Captures Leadership Position in Wireless Networking Market
SiGe Semiconductor Acquisition Accelerates Company's Vision of Enabling
Ubiquitous Mobile Connectivity
WOBURN, Mass., Sep 28, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (SWKS),
an innovator of high reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling
a broad range of end markets, today announced that it has captured the market
leader position in wireless networking with the acquisition of SiGe
Semiconductor. Skyworks' connectivity solutions can be found powering a variety
of Internet access devices including smart phones, set-top boxes, gateways,
BluRay(R) players, gaming consoles, tablets and personal computers, high-power
access points and routers.
"Following the SiGe acquisition, we believe Skyworks' modules are enabling more
than one-third of the world's wireless radios, significantly more than any other
single company," said Allen Nogee, principle analyst at In-Stat, a market
research firm. "And with wireless networking providing bandwidth for smart phones
and expanding connectivity in tablets and other consumer devices, Skyworks is
well positioned to capture additional market share in this fast growing market."
"With the addition of SiGe's product portfolio and intellectual property,
Skyworks is delighted to be enabling mobile connectivity across a broader
spectrum of wireless networking markets and applications," said Liam K. Griffin,
executive vice president and general manager of high performance analog at
Skyworks. "Our combined product portfolio allows us to offer customers a breadth
of best-in-class solutions and capitalize on our position in tablets and smart
phones, where wireless networking attachment rates are approaching 100 percent,
as well as home automation and energy management."
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,
circulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids,
infrastructure RF subsystems, isolators, mixers/demodulators, optocouplers,
optoisolators, 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:
skyworksinc.com. |
