WOBURN, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ: SWKS) an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and things, today announced that for $76.5 million, it has acquired the remaining 34 percent interest it did not already own in the filter joint venture it created with Panasonic in 2014. At the core of the joint venture was Panasonic’s engineering and process talent, expertise in filter design and leading edge products, as well as 412 fundamental filter patents and patent applications for surface acoustic wave (SAW) and temperature compensated (TC) SAW devices. In August 2015, Skyworks expanded its production capacity with the addition of a 405,000 square foot facility in Osaka to help meet the growing demand for highly integrated solutions leveraging filter technology. To date, total production has exceeded more than two billion filters. The acquisition is not expected to impact Skyworks’ consolidated financial statements as operations have been consolidated with Skyworks’ financial statements since the date of the initial joint venture.
“With this acquisition, Skyworks has strengthened its leadership position as one of the world’s largest providers of high performance, integrated-filter solutions,” said Liam K. Griffin, president and chief executive officer of Skyworks. “Given the proliferation of frequency bands, the addition of LTE capabilities and market demand for always-on connectivity, the need for filters has never been higher. Our strategic investment uniquely enables us to deliver end-to-end solutions for some of the fastest growing and most demanding applications in the world requiring high performance filter technology. Together with external partners, we are successfully addressing the low, mid and high band performance requirements across premium smartphones and IoT applications.”
According to a recent Research and Markets report, the global radio frequency filter market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 15 percent during the period 2016-2020 and the rise in the number of frequency bands, modulation schemes and power amplifier modes to support increased mobile data traffic is resulting in high RF front-end complexity.
About Skyworks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is empowering the wireless networking revolution. Our highly innovative analog semiconductors are connecting people, places and things spanning a number of new and previously unimagined applications within the automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, connected home, industrial, medical, military, smartphone, tablet and wearable markets.
Headquartered in Woburn, Massachusetts, Skyworks is a global company with engineering, marketing, operations, sales, and service facilities located throughout Asia, Europe and North America. For more information, please visit Skyworks’ website at: www.skyworksinc.com.
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