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Skyworks Expands Linear Products Portfolio with the Industry's Highest Isolation, Lowest Loss Performance Switch for Infrastructure Market

Skyworks Expands Linear Products Portfolio with the Industry's Highest Isolation, Lowest Loss Performance Switch for Infrastructure MarketWOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 13, 2007--Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity, today unveiled the industry's highest isolation switch with the lowest loss system performance available for the cellular infrastructure market - the first in a series of forthcoming solutions. Targeted at OEMs building high performance, multi-channel systems, the SKY13286-359LF is ideal for base station applications where synthesizer isolation is critical, minimizing the blending of one frequency into the circuitry of another. The company's high isolation switches, which integrate silicon complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) drivers, also require fewer components, saving critical board space and allowing for enhanced architectures and lower overall system costs. In addition, with excellent output-to-output isolation, OEMs have greater flexibility for multiple system designs.

"Skyworks' high isolation switch is pushing the performance envelope. By leveraging key pHEMT process technologies, our solution gives designers much more freedom in selecting circuit architectures that meet demanding performance requirements for both isolation and insertion loss," said Stan A. Swearingen, vice president and general manager of Linear Products for Skyworks. "With several design wins and other customer evaluations ongoing, Skyworks is pleased to be providing an innovative switch solution for the rapidly growing cellular infrastructure market."

Skyworks launched its Linear Products portfolio in 2004 to aggressively leverage the company's core analog capabilities, along with its strong catalog sales and distribution channels, into non-handset applications - with a goal of creating a business characterized by longer product lifecycles, sustained revenue profiles and higher profit margins when compared to handsets. In fiscal 2007, Skyworks plans to introduce over 90 new linear products - continuing to diversify the company's footprint in various markets including medical, infrastructure, broadband, automotive and industrial, to name just a few.

About the SKY13286-359LF

Enabled by Skyworks' patent pending sixth-generation pseudomorphic high electron mobility transistor (pHEMT) process, the SKY13286-359LF is a gallium arsenide (GaAs) FET integrated circuit high isolation absorptive switch in a 4 x 4 mm 16-lead QFN with exposed pad plastic package. Other features include single positive voltage control, matched inputs and outputs, and lead-free, restriction of hazardous substances (ROHS)-compliant packaging.

Pricing and Availability

Evaluation boards are available for sampling via Innovation to GoTM - Skyworks' online store located at www.skyworksinc.com. Pricing varies depending upon quantities. Please contact a sales representative at sales@skyworksinc.com or visit the company's Web site at www.skyworksinc.com for more information.

About Skyworks

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high performance analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling mobile connectivity. The company's power amplifiers, front-end modules and direct conversion transceivers are at the heart of many of today's leading-edge multimedia handsets. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks also offers a diverse portfolio of linear products that support automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, industrial and medical applications.

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 www.skyworksinc.com.

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These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: global economic and market conditions, such as the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by our, and our customers', products; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing technological environment; fluctuations in our manufacturing yields due to our complex and specialized manufacturing processes; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new markets; our ability to rapidly develop new products and avoid product obsolescence; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; lengthy product development cycles that impact the timing of new product introductions; losses or curtailments of purchases or payments from key customers, or the timing of customer inventory adjustments; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; our reliance on a several key customers for a large percentage of our sales; unfavorable changes in product mix; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; shorter than expected product life cycles; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; economic, social and political conditions in the countries in which we, our customers or our suppliers operate, including security and health risks, possible disruptions in transportation networks and fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; our ability to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual property portfolio and obtain needed licenses from third parties; and the uncertainties of litigation, including disputes over intellectual property, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and we undertake no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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SOURCE: Skyworks Solutions, Inc.