BUSINESS OVERVIEW Skyworks’ mission is to achieve mobile connectivity leadership through semiconductor innovation. Key elements in our strategy include: By leveraging our core analog and mixed signal technology, Skyworks is able to deliver solutions to a broad and diverse set of end markets and customers. In the handset market, we currently support all top tier manufacturers including the leading smart phone suppliers, and have strategic relationships with each key baseband vendor. In high performance analog markets, we expect to continue to take advantage of our catalog business, intellectual property and worldwide distribution network, and plan to bolster our product pipeline and expand our addressable markets beyond the approximately 1,000 global customers and 2,500 analog components currently marketed. Our customer engagements are increasingly centered on solving highly complex multimode, multiband, switching, filtering, digital control and amplification challenges — system-level requirements which intersect with Skyworks’ core competencies. Skyworks continues to invest in developing architectures that optimize power efficiency while minimizing cost and footprint, which we believe will allow us to meet our customers’ demanding next-generation technology requirements, as well as stringent quality standards and high volume manufacturing capabilities. As the industry migrates to multimode, multiband EDGE, WEDGE, WCDMA and LTE architectures across a multitude of wireless broadband applications, RF complexity in the transmit and receive chain substantially increases given simultaneous voice and high speed data communications requirements, coupled with the need for backward compatibility to existing networks. As a result of this complexity in the RF module, we believe that our addressable market is increasing significantly. Skyworks’ strategy is to either vertically integrate our supply chain where we can create a competitive advantage or otherwise enter into alliances and strategic relationships for leading-edge capabilities. This hybrid manufacturing approach allows us to better balance external capacity with the demands of the marketplace. Internally, our capacity utilization remains high and we are therefore able to maintain margins and to achieve our desired return on invested capital on a broader range of revenue. We continue to focus on trying to achieve the industry’s shortest product cycle times, highest yields and ultimately lowest product cost structure. Our product portfolio consists of: Page 70 Skyworks / Annual Report 2011 • Amplifiers: the modules that strengthen the signal so that it has sufficient energy to reach a base station • Attenuators: circuits that allow a known source of power to be reduced by a predetermined factor (usually expressed as decibels) • Detectors: intended for use in power management applications • Diodes: semiconductor devices that pass current in one direction only SKYWORKS’ PRODUCT PORTFOLIO Delivering Operational Excellence Capitalizing on Content Growth in Third and Fourth Generation (3G and 4G) Mobile Communications Technologies Gaining Market Share Diversifying Our Business