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Skyworks Commences Volume Shipments of ZigBee(r) Front-end Solutions for Home Automation, Smart Energy and Security
Applications
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-- Industry’s Highest Efficiency and Most Integrated Devices Leveraged by Multiple Customers
WOBURN, Mass., Oct. 8, 2012 – Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS), an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors
enabling a broad range of end markets, commenced volume shipments of several medium to high-power ZigBee® front-end
solutions for smart meters, home automation, security sensors and gateway applications. Skyworks’ front-end
solutions deliver the industry’s most integrated and highest efficiency devices, enabling leading broadband service
providers, security companies and utilities to offer next generation connected home services with increased wireless
ranges for applications including monitoring, control, energy management and health care. Customizable, turnkey
solutions are revolutionizing the way companies deliver low-cost, high value interactive services to consumers.
“Skyworks
is delighted to be offering best-in-class ZigBee® front-end solutions that are enabling exciting consumer applications
such a home monitoring, security and energy management from a smartphone,” said Liam K. Griffin, executive vice president
and general manager of high performance analog at Skyworks. “We believe we are in the early innings of what
will be an enormous market opportunity as seemingly everything within the home becomes connected.”
As cited
in GSMA’s Vision of Smart Home: The Role of Mobile in the Home of the Future report, the combined revenue from the
smart metering, home automation and home energy management segment is forecasted to generate more than $44 billion
in 2016, according to market analyst companies ABI and Berg Insight. The overall revenue potential of the smart
home is expected to be even higher as devices from the entertainment, health and home security sectors also become
connected. About Skyworks’ ZigBee®/Smart Energy Front-end Modules The
SE2431L and
SE2432L are 2.4 gigahertz, high
performance and fully integrated RF FEMs designed for ZigBee®/smart energy and 802.15.4 applications. The FEMs
are designed for ease of use and maximum flexibility, with integrated inter-stage matching and harmonic filter, and
digital controls compatible with 1.6 – 3.6 volt (V) complementary metal oxide semiconductor levels. The RF blocks
operate over a wide supply voltage range from 2.0 to 3.6 V, allowing the devices to be used in battery-powered applications
over a wide spectrum of the battery discharge curve. Pricing Skyworks’ ZigBee®/smart
energy front-end modules are currently available for both sampling and production. For volume pricing, please
contact sales@skyworksinc.com.
About Skyworks Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors.
Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks supports automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management,
GPS, industrial, medical, military, wireless networking, smartphone and tablet applications. The Company’s portfolio
includes amplifiers, attenuators, circulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids,
infrastructure RF subsystems, isolators, lighting and display solutions, mixers/demodulators, optocouplers, optoisolators,
phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, power management devices, 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: www.skyworksinc.com
Contact Amanda Ingalls, (949) 231-3045
ssales@skyworksinc.com
www.skyworksinc.com
Posted 10/9/2012
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