Skyworks Solutions
Mr. Kris Sennesael (Sr. VP & CFO)
Mr. Robert John Terry (Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Sec.)
Summary
Skyworks Solutions, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, designs, develops, manufactures, and markets proprietary semiconductor products, including intellectual property in the United States, China, South Korea, Taiwan, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and rest of Asia-Pacific. Its product portfolio includes amplifiers, antenna tuners, attenuators, automotive tuners and digital radios, circulators/isolators, DC/DC converters, demodulators, detectors, diodes, wireless analog system on chip products, directional couplers, diversity receive modules, filters, front-end modules, hybrids, light emitting diode drivers, low noise amplifiers, mixers, modulators, optocouplers/optoisolators, phase locked loops, phase shifters, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches, synthesizers, timing devices, technical ceramics, voltage controlled oscillators/synthesizers, and voltage regulators. The company provides its products for use in the aerospace, automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, entertainment and gaming, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet, and wearable markets. It sells its products through direct sales force, electronic component distributors, and independent sales representatives. The company was incorporated in 1962 and is headquartered in Irvine, California.
History
The company formed as a result of a merger of Alpha Industries and the wireless communications division of Conexant, which took effect on June 26, 2002. Headquartered in Irvine, California, Skyworks has manufacturing facilities in Woburn, Massachusetts, Newbury Park, California and Mexicali, Mexico. It has design centers in Irvine; Santa Rosa, California; Newbury Park; Woburn; Greensboro, North Carolina; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Ottawa, Ontario. According to its website, the company has design, engineering, manufacturing, marketing, sales and service facilities throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.The music video for The Postal Service's song "Such Great Heights" is set in Skyworks' Newbury Park chip fabrication plant.On October 5, 2015, Skyworks Solutions entered a definitive agreement to acquire PMC-Sierra for $2 billion in cash. However, Skyworks walked away from the deal, having been outbid by Microsemi. On April 22, 2021, Skyworks Solutions entered into a definitive agreement with Silicon Labs to acquire their Infrastructure & Automotive business for $2.75 billion.
Mission
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is empowering the wireless networking revolution. Our highly innovative analog 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, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and wearable markets.
Key Team
Mr. Carlos S. Bori (Sr. VP of Sales & Marketing)
Ms. Karilee A. Durham (Sr. VP of HR)
Dr. Reza Kasnavi (Sr. VP of Technology & Manufacturing)
Mr. Mitchell J. Haws (VP of Investor Relations)
Ms. Pilar Barrigas (Head of Media Relations)
Mr. Joel R. King (Sr. VP & GM of Mobile Solutions Bus.)
Mr. Yusuf Jamal (Sr. VP & GM of Diversified Analog Solutions)
References
Mr. Kris Sennesael (Sr. VP & CFO)
Mr. Robert John Terry (Sr. VP, Gen. Counsel & Sec.)