INTRODUCTION Skyworks Solutions, Inc. together with its consolidated subsidiaries, (“Skyworks” or the “Company”) is an innovator of high reliability analog semiconductors. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks offers high performance analog products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, industrial, medical, military, 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, mixers/demodulators, optocouplers, optoisolators, phase shifters, PLLs/ synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, receivers, switches and technical ceramics. Our portfolio includes highly customized power amplifiers and front-end solutions that are in many of today’s cellular handsets, from entry level to multimedia platforms, as well as smart phones. Some of our primary customers include Foxconn, LG Electronics, Motorola, Nokia, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Research in Motion, and HTC. Our competitors include Avago Technologies, RF Micro Devices and Triquint Semiconductor. In parallel, we offer over 2,500 different high performance analog products to a highly diversified non-handset customer base. Our customers include connectivity, infrastructure, automotive, energy management, medical and military providers such as Huawei, Ericsson, Cisco, Phillips, Toshiba, Sensus, Itron, Siemens, and Northrop Grumman. Our competitors in the analog products markets include Analog Devices, Hittite Microwave, Linear Technology and Maxim Integrated Products. Through the acquisition of SiGe Semiconductor, Inc. (“SiGe”) in June 2011, the Company expanded its RF front-end solutions that facilitate wireless multimedia across a wide range of applications. The acquisition of SiGe complements the Company’s leadership in wide area front-end solutions by adding SiGe’s innovative short range, silicon-based products. As a result, the Company now offers customers a more comprehensive wireless networking product portfolio, supporting all key operating frequencies with greater architectural flexibility to address a variety of high growth applications. In addition, the Company acquired a private company engaged in the design and manufacturing of optical components in April 2011. Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, the Company is a Delaware corporation that was formed in 1962. The Company changed its corporate name from Alpha Industries, Inc. to Skyworks Solutions, Inc. on June 25, 2002, following a business combination. We have worldwide operations with engineering, manufacturing, sales and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe and North America. Our Internet address is www.skyworksinc.com. We make available on our Website our Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, Section 16 filings on Forms 3, 4 and 5, and amendments to those reports as soon as practicable after we electronically submit such material to the SEC. The information contained in our Website is not incorporated by reference in this Annual Report. You may read and copy materials that we have filed with the SEC at the SEC public reference room located at 100 F Street, N.E., Washington, D.C. 20549. Please call the SEC at 1-800-SEC-0330 for further information on the public reference room. Our SEC filings are also available to the public on the SEC’s Internet Website at www.sec.gov. We believe there are several key growth trends shaping the wireless industry. First is the advent of the mobile Internet, where consumers are increasingly demanding mobile devices with faster data rates, advanced image quality and improved Internet connectivity. We believe that this demand is one of the biggest growth trends in technology. On the high-end of the cellular handset market, smart phone growth — which is at the heart of the mobile Internet phenomenon — is fostering this industry-wide sea change. In effect, the smart phone is becoming an INDUSTRY BACKGROUND Page 68 Skyworks / Annual Report 2011