Skyworks Solutions, Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors enabling a broad range of end markets, today announced that it received the Outstanding Supplier and Perfect Quality awards from Lenovo for product innovation, delivering perfect quality solutions and serving as a strategic partner.
Skyworks is Lenovo’s leading provider of analog and RF solutions, having supported the company through several major product launches and growth in market share. Lenovo leverages a variety of Skyworks’ products including SkyHi™ front-end solutions, multimode, multiband power amplifiers, switches, diodes and global positioning system devices, among others.
“Lenovo congratulates Skyworks for their outstanding support and commitment to perfect quality,” said David Wang, vice president of procurement at Lenovo. “Over the past few years Skyworks and Lenovo have forged a strong relationship, one that has grown even stronger as Lenovo has become much more than a PC company. We are delighted with Skyworks’ reliable, high quality and turnkey solutions, and look forward to collaborating with them for years to come particularly as Lenovo expects to grow its market share in China and abroad.”
“At Skyworks we realize the success of our customers depends upon the strength of our services and reliability of our products and we appreciate Lenovo’s recognition of our journey towards perfect quality,” said Kenneth J. Huening, vice president of quality at Skyworks. “We are delighted to be partnering with Lenovo to enable a variety of personal technology platforms including smartphones, tablets and smart television with an increasing number of our analog and connectivity solutions. We also recognize that delivering perfect quality is a key differentiator in today’s competitive market.”
With sales growing in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia and Vietnam, Gartner predicts that Lenovo will become China’s top smartphone vendor in 2013. According to IDC, Lenovo already has the third highest worldwide market share for “Smart Connected Devices” which combines PC, smartphones and tablets.
About Levovo
Lenovo (HKSE: 992) (ADR: LNVGY) is a US$34 billion personal technology company – one of the top two PC makers in the world and an emerging PC Plus leader – serving customers in more than 160 countries. Dedicated to exceptionally engineered PCs and mobile internet devices, Lenovo’s business is built on product innovation, a highly-efficient global supply chain and strong strategic execution. Formed by Lenovo Group’s acquisition of the former IBM Personal Computing Division, the Company develops, manufactures and markets reliable, high-quality, secure and easy-to-use technology products and services. Its product lines include legendary Think-branded commercial PCs and Idea-branded consumer PCs, as well as servers, workstations, and a family of mobile internet devices, including tablets and smart phones. Lenovo, a global Fortune 500 company, has major research centers in Yamato, Japan; Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen, China; and Raleigh, North Carolina. For more information see www.lenovo.com.
About Skyworks
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. is an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors. Leveraging core technologies, Skyworks supports automotive, broadband, cellular infrastructure, energy management, GPS, industrial, medical, military, wireless networking, smartphone and tablet applications. The Company’s portfolio includes amplifiers, attenuators, circulators, demodulators, detectors, diodes, directional couplers, front-end modules, hybrids, infrastructure RF subsystems, isolators, lighting and display solutions, mixers, modulators, optocouplers, optoisolators, phase shifters, PLLs/synthesizers/VCOs, power dividers/combiners, power management devices, 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.