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Skyworks Solutions supplies chips that manufacturers build into smartphones, wireless equipment and other electronics. Most sales pass through electronic-components distributors, with the rest going directly to equipment makers and companies that design or assemble their products. Apple devices account for most of its revenue across these routes, making Apple its central customer relationship.
To earn those sales, Skyworks must persuade manufacturers to select its components when designing a device. That selection does not guarantee orders: customers can reduce purchases or stop using its chips. Production combines Skyworks’ own facilities with outside wafer manufacturers and packaging, assembly and testing providers, so fulfilling orders depends on both internal production and suppliers’ capacity.
U.S. export restrictions limit sales to certain Chinese entities and can require licenses or prevent shipments. Skyworks also has a proposed merger with Qorvo, which remains subject to shareholder and regulatory approvals. While the agreement is pending, some business activities and strategic transactions require Qorvo’s consent.
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Skyworks’ results hinge on Apple device volumes and its share of components in those devices, while its disclosed merger agreement with RF rival Qorvo, absent from this list, adds a major strategic and regulatory dependency.
Skyworks depends on Apple’s device business: chips sold directly to Apple or through manufacturers and distributors generated 67% of Skyworks’ fiscal 2025 revenue. Watch Apple’s smartphone, tablet, computer and watch sales alongside Skyworks’ share of components in those devices.
Qualcomm competes with Skyworks for the chips device manufacturers put into smartphones and other connected devices, including radio-signal components known as RF front ends. Qualcomm’s wins for those components matter to Skyworks’ share and pricing, rather than its chip and patent-licensing business as a whole.
Broadcom competes with Skyworks for device manufacturers’ purchases of wireless connectivity chips, putting Skyworks’ sales and pricing under competitive pressure. Watch Broadcom’s wireless device connectivity business, not its infrastructure software results.
Cirrus Logic and Skyworks both rely heavily on selling components for Apple devices, so Apple device production and component selections matter to both. They also compete in parts of the mixed-signal chip market.
Analog Devices competes with Skyworks for communications and electronics manufacturers’ purchases of analog and mixed-signal chips. Its product news on accuracy, power use and reliability helps frame the performance competition Skyworks faces for those customers.
NXP Semiconductors competes with Skyworks to supply connectivity, radio-frequency and analog chips for mobile devices and communications infrastructure. Its connectivity chipsets and RF power amplifiers are the products to watch for competition in those markets.
SiTime Corporation competes with Skyworks to sell electronics manufacturers components that keep circuits running in sync, known as timing products. Its revenue comes mainly from oscillator systems, making that product line the clearest place to watch this competition.
MaxLinear competes with Skyworks to supply RF and mixed-signal chips that equipment makers build into broadband equipment and communications infrastructure. Watch its products for home-networking routers, broadband modems and base-station radios for developments in this overlapping business.
MACOM Technology Solutions Holdings, Inc competes with Skyworks to sell RF and analog components that customers build into communications, defense and industrial systems. Its telecom and industrial-and-defense product news is more relevant to this rivalry than its data-center business.
Texas Instruments competes with Skyworks for analog-chip purchases by communications and other electronics manufacturers. Its Analog segment is the relevant line to watch, rather than Embedded Processing or total company revenue.
Skyworks Solutions Inc earningsThis company
Skyworks' revenue and gross margin will show whether demand for mobile and Wi-Fi products can offset lost share at a major customer, falling prices and manufacturing costs.
Read revenue alongside gross margin, the share of sales left after manufacturing costs. If both rise, sales volume or product mix is more than offsetting price declines, lost customer share and manufacturing costs. If revenue rises but gross margin falls, selling more is not improving the return on each dollar of sales. If both fall, demand or customer share is not making up for price and cost pressure.
Apple Inc. earningsAAPL
Apple's report will show how demand for its devices is changing; Apple accounted for 67% of Skyworks' fiscal 2025 revenue, but strong Apple sales would not prove Skyworks kept its component share.
Start with Apple's reported sales of devices such as the iPhone, then compare them with Skyworks' own revenue and gross margin. Strong device sales support end demand; if Skyworks' revenue is still weak, lost component share or less Skyworks content per device may be holding it back. Weak device sales mean a smaller demand pool from this major customer. Skyworks' own results show how much of that business it captured.
Qualcomm Inc earningsQCOM
If Qualcomm reports on its radio-frequency front-end products—the chips that handle wireless signals—it will show whether it is gaining device-component business that competes with Skyworks.
Look for Qualcomm's specific disclosures on RF front-end orders, design wins—when a customer selects a chip for a product—or pricing, not just its total revenue. More orders or lower prices in these products would signal pressure on Skyworks' share or selling prices. Growth from other chips or patent licensing would not establish that Skyworks is losing ground.
Retail Sales MoM (Oct)
Retail sales track consumer spending, which can change demand for smartphones, tablets and wearables and the production customers schedule ahead of holiday sales, affecting Skyworks’ component shipments and sales.
Read stronger retail sales as a sign that consumers are spending more, which may support device demand and production orders for Skyworks’ components; weaker sales may signal softer demand and fewer orders.
Industrial Production MoM (Oct)
Factory, mine and utility output shows demand for industrial goods and their inputs, which can change orders for Skyworks’ semiconductor components used in industrial, automotive, broadband and cellular-infrastructure products and affect its unit sales and pricing.
Read stronger factory, mine and utility output as a sign of firmer demand that may support customer orders for Skyworks’ components; weaker output may mean fewer orders and more inventory and price pressure.
