Skyworks Solutions Inc Profile
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. and its consolidated subsidiaries (Skyworks) design, develop, manufacture, and market similar proprietary semiconductor products, including intellectual property.
The company is empowering the wireless networking revolution. The company's highly innovative analog and mixed-signal semiconductors are connecting people, places, and things, spanning a number of new and previously unimagined applications within the aerospace, automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, defense, entertainment and gaming, industrial, medical, smartphone, tablet, and wearable markets.
Targeted investments in next-generation technology and solutions, exceptional technical talent, and world-class fabrication capabilities have accelerated the company's expansion into high-growth market segments, including electric and hybrid vehicles, industrial and motor control, power supply, 5G wireless infrastructure, optical data communication, data center, automotive, smart home, and several other applications.
The company's key customers include Amazon, Apple Inc. ('Apple'), Arcadyan, Arris, Bose, Ciena, Cisco, DJI, Ericsson, Fibocom, Garmin, Gemalto (a Thales company), General Electric, Google, Honeywell, Itron, Lenovo, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motorola, NETGEAR, Nokia, Northrop Grumman, OPPO, Rockwell Collins, Sagemcom, Samsung, Schneider Electric, Sierra Wireless, Sonos, Sony, Technicolor, Telit, Tesla, TP-Link, VIVO, Xiaomi, and ZTE. The company's competitors include Analog Devices, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, Murata Manufacturing, NXP Semiconductors, Qorvo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.
The company operate worldwide with engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe, and North America.
Skyworks helps facilitate these opportunities with highly customized solutions that support a broad set of wireless systems and protocols, including cellular, 5G, Wi-Fi, GPS, Bluetooth, Accutime, HD-Radio, LoRa, Thread, and Zigbee. Additionally, Wi-Fi 7, the next generation of Wi-Fi technology, complements 5G by providing high-speed wireless connectivity in local environments. These faster data rates and improved efficiency cater to the growing number of devices reliant on wireless networks.
Finally, with the rapid transition towards electrification and advanced safety in vehicles, the company is focused on high growth segments and content opportunities, including power isolation chips for on-board chargers, powertrain, and for battery management systems in electric vehicles; connectivity, with telematics and other solutions being enabled by 4G/5G cellular engines, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, Ultra-wide band, Ethernet, and GPS; and in-vehicle infotainment systems, driven by digital radio coprocessors, and solutions supporting advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving.
Strategy
The major elements of the company's strategy include industry-leading technology; customer relationships; diversification; and maintaining a performance-driven culture.
Product Portfolio
The company's extensive product portfolio includes:
Amplifiers: The modules that strengthen the signal so that it has sufficient energy to reach a base station.
Antenna Tuners: Aperture and impedance tuning products that improve antenna performance across frequencies.
Attenuators: Circuits that allow a known source of power to be reduced by a predetermined factor (usually expressed as decibels).
Automotive Tuners and Digital Radios: Tuners, data receivers, and digital radio coprocessors used in automotive infotainment systems.
Wireless ASoC: An intelligent 2.4 GHz and 5GHz wireless radio integrated circuit that includes all the analog and digital functions optimized for building cognitive wireless audio headsets, headphones, and wireless speaker systems.
DC/DC Converters: An electronic circuit which converts a source of direct current from one voltage level to another.
Demodulators: A device or an RF block used in receivers to extract the information that has been modulated onto a carrier or from the carrier itself.
Detectors: Devices used to measure and control RF power in wireless systems.
Digital Power Isolators: Energy efficient solutions used in industrial control, solar inverters and hybrid/electric automotive drive trains.
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.
Diversity Receive Modules: Devices used to improve receiver sensitivity in high data rate applications.
Filters: Devices for recovering and separating mixed and modulated data in RF stages, including SAW, TC-SAW, and BAW filters.
Front-end Modules: Two or more functions co-packaged to optimize the performance, cost, and application suitability in products, including intermediate or radio frequency signal paths.
Hybrid: A type of directional coupler used in radio and telecommunications.
LED Drivers: Devices, which regulate the current through a light-emitting diode or string of diodes for the purpose of creating light.
Low-Noise Amplifiers: Devices used to reduce system noise figure in the receive chain.
Mixers: Devices that enable signals to be converted to a higher or lower frequency signal and thereby allowing the signals to be processed more effectively.
Modulators: Devices that take a baseband input signal and output a radio frequency modulated signal.
Optocouplers/Optoisolators: Semiconductor devices that allow signals to be transferred between circuits or systems while ensuring that the circuits or systems are electrically isolated from each other.
Phase Locked Loops: Closed-loop feedback control system that maintains a generated signal in a fixed phase relationship to a reference signal.
Phase Shifters: Designed for use in power amplifier distortion compensation circuits in base station applications.
Power Dividers/Combiners: Utilized to equally split signals into in-phase signals as often found in balanced signal chains and local oscillator distribution networks.
Power over Ethernet: Enables both data and power to be sent over standard ethernet cable.
Power Isolators: Digital, analog isolators, and isolated gate drivers used in industrial control, solar inverters, hybrid/electric automotive systems and charging stations.
ProSLIC Family of Subscriber Line Interface Circuits: Provides complete analog telephone interfaces for premise equipment and enterprise.
Receivers: Electronic devices that change a radio signal from a transmitter into useful information (including broadcast receivers).
System In Package: Complete system in a package, including modem, RF front-end, filtering, matching, timing generation - typically, fully certified by regulatory bodies, industry bodies and multi-service operators.
Switches: Components that perform the change between the transmit and receive function, as well as the band function for cellular handsets.
Synthesizers: Devices that provide ultra-fine frequency resolution, fast switching speed, and low phase-noise performance.
Timing Devices: Clock generators, oscillators, jitter attenuators, and buffers used in optical networking, data center, wireless base stations, industrial, and automotive applications.
Voltage Controlled Oscillators/Synthesizers: Fully integrated, high performance signal source for high dynamic range transceivers.
Voltage Regulators: Generate a fixed level which ideally remains constant over varying input voltage or load conditions.
Marketing and Distribution
The company's products are sold globally through a direct sales force, electronic component distributors, and independent sales representatives. As is customary in the semiconductor industry, the company's distributors may also market other products that compete with the company.
Customer Concentration
In the year ended September 29, 2023 ('fiscal 2023'), Apple, through sales to multiple distributors and contract manufacturers for multiple applications, including smartphones, tablets, desktop and notebook computers, watches, and other devices, constituted more than ten percent of the company's net revenue.
Research and Development
The company invested $606.8 million in research and development during the year ended September 29, 2023.
Seasonality
Sales of the company's products are subject to seasonal fluctuation and periods of increased demand in end-user consumer applications, such as smartphones and tablet computing devices. The highest demand for the company's products generally occurs in the company's first fiscal quarter ending in December and the fourth fiscal quarter ending in September. The lowest demand for the company's products generally occurs in the company's second fiscal quarter ending in March and the third fiscal quarter ending in June.
Competition
The company competes with international and the United States semiconductor manufacturers of all sizes in terms of resources and market share, including but not limited to, Analog Devices, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, Murata Manufacturing, NXP Semiconductors, Qorvo, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments.
History
Skyworks Solutions, Inc., a Delaware corporation, was founded in 1962.
