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Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (SWKS - Analyst Report) designs, manufactures, and markets wireless semiconductor solutions for the mobile communications industry. The company has the building blocks, such as RF-ICs [radio frequency integrated chips], mixed-signal cores, and digital baseband technology, to leverage on this expertise over multiple platforms and achieve economy of scale.

The company is a leading supplier to top handset manufacturers such as Nokia Corporation (NOK - Analyst Report), Motorola, Inc. (MOT) Sony Corp. (SNE - Snapshot Report)/Ericsson (ERIC - Analyst Report) and Samsung. Because of its RF expertise and manufacturing prowess, the company continues to secure design wins with new and existing customers.

The trend towards wireless handsets with greater functionality favors Skyworks Solutions' business model. Handsets accounted for 77% of total revenues in the latest reported quarter. In the third quarter of fiscal 2008, the company captured strategic reference design wins at QUALCOMM, Inc. (QCOM - Analyst Report) for forthcoming CDMA2000, EDGE and 3G HSDPA architectures.

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