Skyworks Partners with Leading Energy Providers to Meet Growing Worldwide Demand for Smart Meters
2009年7月1日 - 9:00PM
ビジネスワイヤ(英語)
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (NASDAQ:SWKS), an innovator of high
reliability analog and mixed signal semiconductors enabling a broad
range of end markets, today announced that it is partnering with
several of the energy industry�s top solution providers to meet the
growing worldwide demand for smart water, gas and electric meter
readers. These strategic partnerships are enabling Skyworks to
develop and ramp low-cost solutions for remote meter reading
applications and smart grid technologies. Smart grids deliver power
and energy from suppliers to consumers using digital technology,
reducing utility and consumer costs while increasing system
reliability. Governments and utilities are actively promoting smart
grids to address energy independence, global warming and emergency
resilience issues.
Skyworks� customers include Badger Meter, ESCO�Technologies,
Itron, Landis + Gyr Group, and Sensus. Each of these key energy
management providers leverage Skyworks� front-end modules and
linear products for their next-generation meters and advanced
metering infrastructure (AMI) solutions.
�Skyworks is pleased to be collaborating with the principal
players in the advanced metering market,� said Liam K. Griffin,
senior vice president, sales and marketing for Skyworks. �The
energy management space has tremendous potential with several
catalysts driving demand. The adoption of wireless technology
provides a compelling benefit to metering suppliers and utilities,
and we are in the early stages of this global upgrade cycle. We are
excited to deliver a suite of customized solutions in support of
this rapidly growing market and look forward to enabling our
customers� continued success with Skyworks� high performance analog
technology.�
Gartner expects more than 150 million smart meters to be
installed worldwide in the next five years, with approximately 50
percent in North America � creating a cumulative semiconductor
business of $2 billion by 2012. In the same December 2008 report,
Gartner added that by 2012, consumers will be able to use personal
communication devices, such as cellular phones, remotely to control
the power consumption of electronics in their homes.
About Skyworks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high reliability
analog and mixed signal semiconductors. Leveraging core
technologies, Skyworks offers diverse standard and custom linear
products supporting automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure,
energy management, industrial, medical, military and mobile handset
applications. The Company�s portfolio includes amplifiers,
attenuators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end
modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems,
mixers/demodulators, phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power
dividers/combiners, 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.
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These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to:
unprecedented uncertainty regarding global economic and financial
market conditions; the susceptibility of the wireless semiconductor
industry and the markets addressed by our, and our customers',
products to economic downturns; the timing, rescheduling or
cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as
well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; losses
or curtailments of purchases or payments from key customers, or the
timing of customer inventory adjustments; changes in laws,
regulations and/or policies in the United States that could
adversely affect financial markets and our ability to raise
capital; our ability to develop, manufacture and market innovative
products in a highly price competitive and rapidly changing
technological environment; economic, social and political
conditions in the countries in which we, our customers or our
suppliers operate, including security and health risks, possible
disruptions in transportation networks and fluctuations in foreign
currency exchange rates; fluctuations in our manufacturing yields
due to our complex and specialized manufacturing processes; delays
or disruptions in production due to equipment maintenance, repairs
and/or upgrades; our reliance on several key customers for a large
percentage of our sales; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields
of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or
delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our
products; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor
foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our ability
to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving
industry standards, and to identify opportunities in new markets;
uncertainties of litigation, including potential disputes over
intellectual property infringement and rights, as well as payments
related to the licensing and/or sale of such rights; our ability to
rapidly develop new products and avoid product obsolescence; our
ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical
personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with
the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels
needed to implement our business and product plans; lengthy product
development cycles that impact the timing of new product
introductions; unfavorable changes in product mix; the quality of
our products and any remediation costs; shorter than expected
product life cycles; problems or delays that we may face in
shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and
in achieving higher levels of design integration; and our ability
to continue to grow and maintain an intellectual property portfolio
and obtain needed licenses from third parties, as well as other
risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to those
detailed from time to time in our filings with the Securities and
Exchange Commission.
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