Analog semiconductor maker Skyworks Solutions Inc of Woburn, MA, USA has received the Outstanding Supplier and Perfect Quality awards from China's 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 it 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.
"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," says David Wang, VP of procurement at Lenovo. "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," he adds.
"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," says Kenneth J. Huening, VP of quality at Skyworks.
With sales growing in India, Indonesia, the Philippines, Russia and Vietnam, market research firm Gartner predicts that Lenovo will become China's top smartphone vendor in 2013. According to market research firm IDC, Lenovo already has the third highest worldwide market share for 'Smart Connected Devices' which combines PC, smartphones and tablets.
