Skyworks Supports LG's Award Winning Black Label Suite of CDMA Handsets

US Mass : Skyworks Solutions announced that its complete CDMA radio is supporting several current as well as forthcoming platforms from LG Electronics, most notably their award winning and revolutionary LG5900 model, or "Black Label" handset. Providing features such as a touch-sensitive keypad, camera, MP3 player, and EVDO capability, the LG5900 or "Chocolate" phone is already a best seller in Korea, with more than 300,000 units sold there since its launch in November 2005. LG's Chocolate phone recently won Europe's 2006 Reddot and iF Design Awards, two of the continent's greatest accolades.

"Skyworks is delighted to be supporting LG's ramp of several increasingly popular and highly innovative CDMA phones," said Brian M. Daly, vice president of marketing for Mobile Platforms at Skyworks. "Our highly integrated radio delivers the necessary functionality and form factor that offer LG and others the ability to design the compact and feature-rich phones consumers demand."

Skyworks' CDMA radio system is a two chip solution that includes a direct conversion transmitter (SKY74068), low-noise amplifier (SKY74092), direct conversion receiver (SKY74100), power amplifier, SAW filters and various passive components. Together, they provide all the necessary functionality for a complete transmit and receive chain and reduce RF printed circuit board space by up to 75 percent versus discrete implementations, allowing for smaller, slimmer, feature-rich handsets. Skyworks' family of CDMA radios support several configurations of bands and modes, from CDMA-band or KPCS-band for single-band markets such as South Korea, China and India, to tri-band CDMA RF subsystems for South and North America. Each of these multi-chip modules offers substantial reduction in printed circuit board space, in addition to simplifying the customer handset design process by eliminating the need for external RF tuning and optimization.

Through its innovative and proprietary technology, Skyworks is providing radio architectures to four of the top five leading OEMs and is the industry's only high-volume supplier across all key air interfaces, namely CDMA, GPRS and EDGE.

The company's migration of customers from power amplifiers to front-end modules, and now to complete radio solutions that allow for smaller RF footprints and reduced bill-of-materials, not only enables Skyworks to significantly increase its addressable market, but uniquely positions the company to migrate customers to 3G technology where multimode capability is a requirement.

About Skyworks

Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an industry leader in radio solutions and precision analog semiconductors servicing a diversified set of mobile communications applications. The company's power amplifiers, front-end modules and direct conversion transceivers are at the heart of many of today's leading-edge multimedia handsets, cellular base stations and wireless networking platforms. Skyworks also offers a portfolio of highly innovative linear products, supporting a diverse set of automotive, broadband, industrial and medical customers.

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