Skyworks Solutions

Infobox_Company
company_name = Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
company_| company_type = Public (NASDAQ|SWKS)
company_slogan = Breakthrough Simplicity
foundation = 26 June, 2002, Woburn, Massachusetts
location = Woburn, Massachusetts, USA
origins = Merger: Alpha Industries, Incorporated Conexant
key_people = David J. Aldrich, President & CEO
industry = Semiconductors
num_employees = 3,500 (2006)
products = Wireless communication technologies
revenue = profit$779 million USD (2006)
operating_income = profit$42 million USD (2006)
net_income =
subsid =
homepage = [http://www.skyworksinc.com/ www.skyworksinc.com]
footnotes = "Sources": http://www.skyworksinc.com/downloads/fastfacts.pdf Retrieved 6 January 2007.] http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=131895&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=309603&highlight= Retrieved 6 January, 2007.]

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ|SWKS) is a manufacturer of semiconductors for use in radio frequency and mobile communications systems. The company formed as a result of a merger of Alpha Industries and the wireless communications division of Conexant, which took effect on 26 June 2002. Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, United States, Skyworks has manufacturing facilities in Woburn, Newbury Park, California and Mexicali, Mexico and design centers in Irvine, California, Santa Rosa, California, Newbury Park, California, Woburn and Cedar Rapids, Iowa. According to its website, the company has design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales and service facilities throughout North America, Europe, Japan and Asia.http://www.skyworksinc.com/about_facilities.asp Retrieved 6 January, 2007.]

Products

The company's power amplifiers, front end modules and direct conversion transceivers compete for pin-compatible positions in many of today's handsets, cellular base stations, and wireless networking platforms. Skyworks also offers a portfolio of highly commoditized linear products, supporting tangential markets to automotive, broadband, industrial and medical customers.

Trivia

The music video for The Postal Service's song "Such Great Heights" is set in one of Skyworks' chip fabrication plants in Newbury Park, CA.

References

* http://www.skyworksinc.com/about_us.asp