SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.

Skyworks Solutions, Inc., together with its consolidated subsidiaries (“Skyworks” or the “Company”), is a U.S.-based global leader in high-performance radio frequency (“RF”), power management, and analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products and solutions. On October 5, 2026, the Company completed its combination with Qorvo, Inc. (“Qorvo”), bringing together complementary product and technology portfolios, engineering capabilities, and manufacturing operations while expanding our ability to provide integrated, system-level solutions across mobile and a broad range of diversified markets, including physical AI and connected edge, defense and aerospace, data center and networking, and automotive.

Because the combination was completed after the end of fiscal 2026, our consolidated financial results and other historical operating information for fiscal 2026 presented in this Annual Report on Form 10-K generally do not include Qorvo unless otherwise indicated. References to the combined company’s capabilities, markets, employees, customers, intellectual property, or manufacturing footprint reflect the Company following completion of the transaction and are identified as post-combination information where applicable.

Over the past two decades, Skyworks has invested in technologies spanning cellular, advanced Wi-Fi®, enhanced GPS, Bluetooth®, precision timing, power management, acoustic filtering, and other RF and mixed-signal capabilities. Through organic growth and strategic acquisitions, including the Qorvo combination, we are seeking to expand our technology platform, addressable markets, revenue base, and customer set.

Our combined capabilities position us to address opportunities in mobile and in diversified markets, including physical AI and connected edge applications, defense and aerospace, data center and networking, and automotive. Our technology portfolio spans RF solutions, acoustic filtering, power management, precision timing, wired and wireless connectivity, sensing, advanced packaging, and system-level integration.

We serve a broad global customer base that includes leading smartphone and consumer-device manufacturers, automotive suppliers, defense and aerospace companies, communications-equipment providers, data center and networking companies, industrial manufacturers, and distributors. Our competitors vary by product line and end market and include Analog Devices, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, Infineon Technologies, MACOM Technology Solutions, Monolithic Power Systems, Murata Manufacturing, NXP Semiconductors, Qualcomm, Renesas Electronics, SiTime, Texas Instruments, and other diversified and specialized semiconductor suppliers.

We operate worldwide with engineering, manufacturing, sales, and service facilities throughout Asia, Europe, and North America. Our Internet address is www.skyworks.com. We make available free of charge on our website our Annual Report on Form 10-K, quarterly reports on Form 10-Q, current reports on Form 8-K, and amendments to those reports as soon as reasonably practicable after we electronically file such material with, or furnish it to, the SEC. The information contained on our website is not incorporated by reference in this Annual Report on Form 10-K and the inclusion of our website address in this report is an inactive textual reference only. Our SEC filings are also available to the public at www.sec.gov.

Industry Background

Demand for higher-performance RF, power management, timing, connectivity, and mixed-signal solutions is expanding across a broad range of applications. In mobile, the continued evolution of 5G, 5G-Advanced, Wi-Fi, and emerging standards is increasing RF complexity and the need for greater integration. In our diversified markets, growth is being driven by physical AI and connected edge applications, defense modernization and space systems, expanding data center and networking infrastructure, and increasing semiconductor content in vehicles.

The speed and ultra-low latency characteristics inherent in 5G technology are dramatically altering wireless connectivity, creating a market for diverse and transformative applications, and changing how individuals live, work, play, and learn. Most of the world’s largest economies have implemented commercial 5G networks, and the world’s leading smartphone manufacturers have launched multiple generations of 5G-enabled devices.

In mobile, increasing numbers of frequency bands transmit and receive paths, and connectivity standards require higher levels of filtering, tuning, power amplification, power management, and integration. We expect the evolution toward 5G-Advanced and 6G, together with AI-enabled devices and non-terrestrial connectivity, will increase performance requirements across the RF signal path. We expect a continued expansion in data consumption, dependent on seamless and reliable wireless connectivity. A few statistics illustrate this point. According to the 2026 Ericsson Mobility Report, global mobile data for 5G subscriptions are forecast to reach 6.4 billion by the end of 2031, driven by new users, innovative services, and the convergence of artificial intelligence (“AI”) and 5G technology.

In physical AI and connected edge, our solutions address wireless connectivity, power management, isolation, sensing, and edge-processing requirements across connected devices, smart infrastructure, industrial automation, robotics, and other applications. In defense and aerospace, our technologies support radar, electronic warfare, satellite communications, precision timing, high-power and high-frequency RF, and trusted domestic manufacturing. In data center and networking, our portfolio includes precision timing, power management, storage power, optical networking, wired broadband, and RF infrastructure solutions. In automotive, we address connectivity, electrification, infotainment, secure access, battery management, motor control, and advanced driver-assistance applications.

We believe AI can be a catalyst for more efficient and effective wireless communications. From endpoint devices to data centers, generative AI applications will drive the need for higher speed and higher bandwidth networks, while increasing the requirements for our precision timing solutions.

The first wave of AI-capable phones is reaching scale, and early demand signals are encouraging. As AI capabilities become more intuitive and integrated, we believe this could drive an inflection in upgrade cycles, leading to a potential tailwind to volumes and content over time.

Finally, with the rapid transition towards electrification and advanced safety in vehicles, we are focused on high growth segments and content opportunities, including (i) power isolation chips for on-board chargers, powertrain, and battery management systems in electric vehicles, (ii) connectivity, with telematics and other solutions being enabled by 4G/5G cellular engines, Wi-Fi®, Bluetooth®, Ultra-wide band, Ethernet, and GPS, and (iii) in-vehicle infotainment systems, driven by digital radio coprocessors, and solutions supporting advanced driver-assistance systems and autonomous driving.

Solving Connectivity Challenges

Highly integrated semiconductor solutions are increasingly important in addressing the RF, power management, timing, connectivity, and mixed-signal challenges created by next-generation devices and infrastructure. These challenges require capabilities spanning signal transmission and reception, filtering, tuning, power amplification, power conversion and isolation, precision timing, sensing, packaging, and system-level integration.

Our technology platform includes RF GaN and GaAs capabilities, SAW, TC-SAW, and BAW acoustic filtering, low-voltage power management, precision timing, wired broadband, antennas and tuners, beamformers, advanced packaging, module assembly, and test. The breadth of these capabilities enables us to develop integrated, system-level solutions across mobile and diversified markets.

Skyworks’ Strategy

Major elements of our strategy include:

Industry-Leading Technology

As devices and infrastructure become more complex, customers increasingly require solutions that combine RF, power management, timing, connectivity, and mixed-signal capabilities. Our broader engineering and technology platform positions us to address these system-level challenges across the complete RF signal path and in adjacent high-performance analog applications. As the industry migrates to more complex architectures across a multitude of applications, we are poised to help our customers handle growing levels of system complexity across both the transmit and receive chains. The trend towards increasing front-end and analog design challenges plays directly into our core strengths. Additionally, accelerating AI trends could transform these applications with incremental content driving growing functional and physical densities. These advancements may enable more bandwidth and faster speeds, and bring us closer to achieving reliable low latency, ideal for massive machine communications, and non-terrestrial networks that enable satellite connectivity.

We offer a broad portfolio of RF, power management, and analog and mixed-signal solutions supported by advanced manufacturing process technologies. Our capabilities include RF GaN and GaAs, SAW, TC-SAW, and BAW filters, antenna solutions, precision timing, low-voltage power management, wired broadband, advanced integration, proprietary shielding, and three-dimensional die stacking. Following the Qorvo combination, our product portfolio is supported by approximately 12,000 issued and pending patents worldwide and other intellectual property that we own or control. Together, our industry-leading technology enables us to deliver the highest levels of product performance and integration.

Customer Relationships

Given our scale and technology leadership, we are engaged with leading original equipment manufacturers (“OEMs”), smartphone providers, and baseband reference design partners in the analog and mixed-signal semiconductor industry. Our customers value the scale of our global supply chain, our innovative technology, our ability to curate and deliver unique solutions, and our system engineering expertise, resulting in deep customer loyalty. We partner with our customers to support their long-term product road maps and are valued as a system solutions provider rather than just a discrete product vendor.

Diversification

We seek to diversify our business by expanding our addressable markets and broadening our product portfolio. In addition to mobile, we serve a wider array of global customers and are growing our business beyond mobile devices (where we support leading top-tier manufacturers, including the leading smartphone suppliers and key baseband vendors) into additional high-performance analog markets, including physical AI and connected edge applications, defense and aerospace, data center and networking and automotive markets. In these markets, we leverage our scale, intellectual property, engineering breadth, manufacturing capabilities, and worldwide distribution network to serve our now approximately 7,000 customers following the Qorvo combination.

Delivering Operational Excellence

Through advanced supply chain management, we combine highly specialized internal manufacturing capabilities with alliances and strategic relationships for leading-edge technologies. Our combined manufacturing platform includes GaAs and RF GaN fabrication, SAW, TC-SAW, and BAW filtering, and advanced packaging, assembly, and test capabilities across North America, Europe, and Asia.

Additionally, we continue to drive reductions in product design and manufacturing cycle times and further improve product yields. The combination of agile, flexible capacity, and world-class module manufacturing and scale advantage allows us to achieve low product costs while integrating multiple technologies into highly sophisticated multi-chip modules and helping to ensure stable supply to our global customer base.

Maintaining a Performance-Driven Culture

We consider our people and corporate culture to be a competitive advantage and a key component of our corporate strategy, aligning employee efforts and responsibilities with performance measurement. Accountability is paramount, and we compensate our employees through a pay-for-performance methodology.

Generating Superior Operating Results and Stockholder Returns

We believe our manufacturing scale, broad product portfolio, strong profitability, and consistent cash flow generation position us to provide superior results and strong returns to our stockholders.

Our Product Portfolio

Following the Qorvo combination, our extensive product portfolio includes:

•Amplifiers: the modules that strengthen the signal so that it has sufficient energy to reach a base station

•Antenna Tuners: aperture and impedance tuning products that improve antenna performance across frequencies

•Attenuators: circuits that allow a known source of power to be reduced by a predetermined factor (usually expressed as decibels)

•Automotive Tuners and Digital Radios: tuners, data receivers, and digital radio coprocessors used in automotive infotainment systems

•Wireless ASoC: an intelligent 2.4 GHz and 5GHz wireless radio integrated circuit that includes all the analog and digital functions optimized for building cognitive wireless audio headsets, headphones, and wireless speaker systems

•Beamformers and Antenna Solutions: integrated products used to steer, tune, and manage RF signals in mobile, satellite, defense, and infrastructure applications

•DC/DC Converters: an electronic circuit which converts a source of direct current from one voltage level to another

•Demodulators: a device or an RF block used in receivers to extract the information that has been modulated onto a carrier or from the carrier itself

•Detectors: devices used to measure and control RF power in wireless systems

•Digital Power Isolators: energy efficient solutions used in industrial control, solar inverters and hybrid/electric automotive drive trains

•Diodes: semiconductor devices that pass current in one direction only

•Directional Couplers: transmission coupling devices for separately sampling the forward or backward wave in a transmission line

•Diversity Receive Modules: devices used to improve receiver sensitivity in high data rate applications

•Filters: devices for recovering and separating mixed and modulated data in RF stages, including SAW, TC-SAW, and BAW filters

•Front-end Modules: two or more functions co-packaged to optimize the performance, cost, and application suitability in products, including intermediate or radio frequency signal paths

•Hybrid: a type of directional coupler used in radio and telecommunications

•LED Drivers: devices which regulate the current through a light-emitting diode or string of diodes for the purpose of creating light

•Low-Noise Amplifiers: devices used to reduce system noise figure in the receive chain

•Mixers: devices that enable signals to be converted to a higher or lower frequency signal and thereby allowing the signals to be processed more effectively

•Modulators: devices that take a baseband input signal and output a radio frequency modulated signal

•Optocouplers/Optoisolators: semiconductor devices that allow signals to be transferred between circuits or systems while ensuring that the circuits or systems are electrically isolated from each other

•Phase Locked Loops: closed-loop feedback control system that maintains a generated signal in a fixed phase relationship to a reference signal

•Phase Shifters: designed for use in power amplifier distortion compensation circuits in base station applications

•Power Dividers/Combiners: utilized to equally split signals into in-phase signals as often found in balanced signal chains and local oscillator distribution networks

•Power over Ethernet: enables both data and power to be sent over standard ethernet cable.

•Power Isolators: digital, analog isolators, and isolated gate drivers used in industrial control, solar inverters, hybrid/electric automotive systems and charging stations

•Power Management and Motor Control Solutions: low-voltage power management integrated circuits, point-of-load products, gate drivers, and motor-control solutions

•ProSLIC® family of subscriber line interface circuits: provides complete analog telephone interfaces for premise equipment and enterprise

•Receivers: electronic devices that change a radio signal from a transmitter into useful information (including broadcast receivers)

•RF GaN Products: high-power and high-frequency RF solutions used in defense, aerospace, communications infrastructure, and other demanding applications

•System In Package: complete system in a package, including modem, RF front-end, filtering, matching, timing generation – typically, fully certified by regulatory bodies, industry bodies and multi-service operators

•Switches: components that perform the change between the transmit and receive function, as well as the band function for cellular handsets

•Synthesizers: devices that provide ultra-fine frequency resolution, fast switching speed, and low phase-noise performance

•Timing Devices: clock generators, oscillators, jitter attenuators, and buffers used in optical networking, data center, wireless base stations, industrial, and automotive applications

•Voltage Controlled Oscillators/Synthesizers: fully integrated, high performance signal source for high dynamic range transceivers

•Voltage Regulators: generate a fixed level which ideally remains constant over varying input voltage or load conditions

•Wired Broadband Solutions: products supporting broadband access and network connectivity, including DOCSIS applications

We believe we possess broad technology capabilities and one of the most complete wireless communications product portfolios in the industry.

Marketing and Distribution

Our products are sold globally through a direct sales force, electronic component distributors, and independent sales representatives. As is customary in the semiconductor industry, our distributors may also market other products that compete with ours.

Our sales engagement begins at the earliest stages of the design of an existing or potential customer’s product. We collaborate technically with our customers and reference design partners at the inception of new programs. These relationships allow our team to facilitate customer-driven solutions, which leverage the unique strength of our intellectual property and product portfolio while providing high value and greatly reducing time-to-market.

We believe the technical and complex nature of our products and markets demand an extraordinary commitment to maintain close ongoing relationships with our customers. We also employ a collaborative approach in developing these relationships by combining the support of our design teams, applications engineers, manufacturing personnel, sales and marketing staff, and senior management. Lastly, we leverage our customer relationships with cross-selling opportunities across product lines in order to maximize revenue.

We believe that maintaining frequent and interactive contact with our customers is paramount to our continuous efforts to provide world-class sales and service support. By listening and responding to feedback, we are able to mobilize resources to raise our level of customer satisfaction, improve our ability to anticipate future product needs, and enhance our understanding of key market dynamics. We are confident that diligently following this path positions us to participate in numerous opportunities for growth in the future.

Customer Concentration

A small number of OEMs historically has accounted for a significant portion of our net revenue. In each of the fiscal years ended October 2, 2026 (“fiscal 2026”), October 3, 2025 (“fiscal 2025”), and September 27, 2024 (“fiscal 2024”), Apple, through sales to multiple distributors and contract manufacturers for multiple applications including smartphones, tablets, desktop and notebook computers, watches, and other devices, constituted more than ten percent of our net revenue. Further, the Company’s three largest accounts receivable balances comprised 75% and 82% of aggregate gross accounts receivable as of October 2, 2026 and October 3, 2025, respectively. For further information regarding customer concentrations, see Note 14 to Item 8 of this Annual Report on Form 10-K.

Intellectual Property and Proprietary Rights

We own or have a license to use numerous United States and foreign patents and patent applications related to our products and our manufacturing operations and processes. Following the Qorvo combination, our intellectual property portfolio includes technologies related to RF GaN, acoustic filtering, antenna solutions, power management, precision timing, wired broadband, advanced packaging, and system-level integration. In addition, we own a number of trademarks and service marks applicable to certain of our products and services. We believe that our intellectual property, including patents, patent applications, trade secrets, and trademarks, is of material importance to our business. We rely on patent, copyright, trademark, trade secret, and other intellectual property laws, as well as non-disclosure and confidentiality agreements and other methods, to protect our confidential and proprietary technologies, designs, devices, algorithms, processes, and other intellectual property. Our efforts may not meaningfully protect our intellectual property, or others may independently develop substantially equivalent or superior proprietary technologies, designs, devices, algorithms, processes, or other intellectual property. In addition, the laws of some foreign countries do not protect proprietary rights to the same extent as the laws of the United States, and effective copyright, patent, trademark, and trade secret protection may not be available in those jurisdictions. In addition to protecting our intellectual property, we strive to strengthen our intellectual property portfolio to enhance our ability to obtain cross-licenses of intellectual property from others, to obtain access to intellectual property we do not possess, and to more favorably resolve potential intellectual property claims against us. Due to rapid technological changes in the industry, we believe establishing and maintaining a technological leadership position depends primarily on our ability to develop new, innovative products through the technical competence of our engineering personnel.

Competitive Conditions

The competitive environment in the semiconductor industry is in a constant state of flux, with new products continually emerging and existing products approaching technological obsolescence. We compete on the basis of time-to-market, new product innovation, quality, performance, price, compliance with industry standards, breadth of system-level solutions, manufacturing process and foundry capabilities, supply reliability, strategic customer relationships, personnel resources, and protection of our intellectual property. We participate in highly competitive markets against numerous competitors that may be able to adapt more quickly to new and emerging technologies and changes in customer requirements, or may be able to devote greater resources to the development, promotion, and sale of their products. In automotive, defense, aerospace, and infrastructure markets, reliability, qualification requirements, and domestic or trusted manufacturing capabilities may also be significant competitive factors. Our ability to integrate Qorvo successfully and realize the anticipated benefits of the combination may affect our competitive position.

Research and Development

Our products and markets demand rapid technological advancements requiring a continuous effort to enhance existing products and develop new products and technologies. Accordingly, we maintain a high level of research and development activity. We invested $837.0 million, $785.5 million, and $631.7 million in research and development during fiscal 2026, fiscal 2025, and fiscal 2024, respectively. These historical amounts do not include Qorvo because the combination was completed after the end of fiscal 2026. Our research and development expenses include new product development and innovations in integrated circuit design, investment in advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes, development of new packaging and test capabilities, and research on next-generation technologies and product opportunities. Following the Qorvo combination, our combined engineering organization broadens our capabilities across RF, power management, precision timing, wired and wireless connectivity, acoustic filtering, and analog and mixed-signal technologies. We maintain close collaborative relationships with many of our customers to help identify market demands and target our development efforts to meet those demands.

Raw Materials

Raw materials for our products and manufacturing processes are generally available from several sources. It is our intent not to depend on a sole source of supply unless market or other conditions dictate otherwise. However, there are limited situations where we procure certain components and services for our products from single or limited sources, and we are currently dependent on a limited number of sole-source suppliers. We purchase materials and services primarily pursuant to individual purchase orders. However, we have entered into certain supply agreements for the purchase of raw materials or other manufacturing-related services that specify minimum prices and purchase quantity based on our anticipated future requirements. Certain of our suppliers consign raw materials to us at our manufacturing facilities to which we take title as needed in our manufacturing process. We have taken strategic action with suppliers located around the world to secure sourcing of the raw materials and components necessary for our manufacturing.

Backlog and Inventory

Our sales are primarily from the sale of semiconductor products under individual customer purchase orders, some of which have underlying master sales agreements that specify terms governing the product sales. In the absence of a sales agreement, the Company’s standard terms and conditions apply. Due to industry practice, which allows customers to cancel orders with limited advance notice to us prior to shipment, and with little or no penalty, we believe that backlog as of any particular date may not be a reliable indicator of our future revenue levels. The cancellation or deferral of product orders, the return of previously sold products, or overproduction due to a change in anticipated order volume could result in a reduction in revenue and us holding excess or obsolete inventory, which could result in inventory write-downs and, in turn, could have a material adverse effect on our financial condition.

Government Regulations

We are subject to international, federal, state, and local legislation, regulations, and other requirements relating to the discharge of substances into the environment; the treatment, transport, and disposal of hazardous wastes; recycling and product packaging; worker health and safety; and other activities affecting the environment, our workforce, and the management of our manufacturing operations. In addition, most of our customers have mandated that our operations and our products comply with various sustainability initiatives and workers’ rights initiatives initiated by such customers, industry groups in which such customers participate, or the jurisdictions in which such customers operate. We have compliance programs designed to address applicable environmental and worker health and safety requirements. Our efforts to comply with environmental laws and worker health and safety laws could have material impacts on our capital expenditures, competitive position, or financial condition, though the magnitude and duration of such impacts are uncertain and difficult to quantify.

We are also subject to import/export controls, tariffs, and other trade-related regulations and restrictions in the countries in which we have operations or otherwise do business. These controls, tariffs, regulations, and restrictions (including those discussed below in Item 1A, Risk Factors) have had, and we believe may continue to have, a material impact on our business, including our ability to sell products and to manufacture or source components.

Government regulations are subject to change in the future, and accordingly we are unable to assess the possible effect of compliance with future requirements or whether our compliance with such regulations will materially impact our business, results of operations, or financial condition.

Seasonality

Sales of our products are subject to seasonal fluctuation and periods of increased demand in end-user consumer applications, such as smartphones and tablet computing devices. The highest demand for our products generally occurs in our first fiscal quarter ending in December and the fourth fiscal quarter ending in September. The lowest demand for our products generally occurs in our second fiscal quarter ending in March and the third fiscal quarter ending in June.

Employees

As of October 2, 2026, our workforce consists of approximately 10,000 employees located around the world, more than 99% of whom are full-time employees. Further, as of October 2, 2026:

•Our workforce was distributed geographically approximately as follows: 53% in Mexico, 24% in the United States, 21% in Asia, 1% in Canada, and less than 1% in Europe.

•Our workforce was distributed by function approximately as follows: 38% in individual contributor manufacturing roles, 37% in engineering or technician roles, 12% in managerial roles, and 13% in professional or other administrative roles.

•Approximately 3,100 of our employees in Mexico, 760 of our employees in Singapore, and 460 of our employees in Japan were covered by collective bargaining and other union agreements.

We focus on attracting and retaining employees by providing compensation and benefits packages that are competitive within the applicable market for each position. Nearly all full-time employees across the globe are eligible to participate in one of the Company’s incentive plans, under which payments are tied to pre-established performance goals, as well as to purchase shares of the Company’s common stock at a discount from its market price pursuant to the Company’s employee stock purchase plans. In addition, we believe that developing our employees’ skill sets and decision-making abilities—through challenging project assignments, formal training, mentorship, and recognition—is key not only to our employees’ job satisfaction and our retention efforts, but also to maintaining a strong leadership pipeline.