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26. 2011 / 09:30PM, SWKS SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC TO ACQUIRE POWER MANAGEMENT
INNOVATOR ADVANCED ANALOGIC TECHNOLOGIES CONFERENCE CALL
CORPORATE PARTICIPANTS
Steve Ferranti
Skyworks Solutions Inc IR
Dave Aldrich
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Don Palette
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. VP and CFO
Richard Williams
Advanced Analogic Technologies CEO and CTO
Liam Griffin
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. SVP, Sales and Marketing
CONFERENCE CALL PARTICIPANTS
George Iwanyc
Oppenheimer & Co. Analyst
Parag Agarwal
UBS Analyst
Quinn Bolton
Needham & Company Analyst
Nathan Johnsen
Pacific Crest Securities Analyst
Erik Rasmussen
Stifel Nicolaus Analyst
Blayne Curtis
Barclays Capital Analyst
PRESENTATION
Operator
Good afternoon, and welcome to Skyworks Solutions Company announcement conference call. This
call is being recorded. At this time, I will turn the call over to Steve Ferranti, Investor
Relations for Skyworks. Mr. Ferranti, please go ahead.
Steve Ferranti Skyworks Solutions Inc IR
Thank you, Abe. Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to our conference call to discuss
Skyworks agreement to acquire Advanced Analogic Technologies. Joining me on the call are Dave
Aldrich, Don Palette, and Liam Griffin from Skyworks, as well as Richard Williams, CEO and CTO of
Advanced Analogic Technologies. We will begin todays call with some brief remarks by Dave, Don and
Richard, followed by a Q&A session.
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2011 / 09:30PM, SWKS Skyworks Solutions Inc to Acquire Power Management
Innovator Advanced Analogic Technologies Conference Call
This communication may be deemed to be solicitation material in respect of the proposed
acquisition by Skyworks of Advanced Analogic Technologies The directors and executive officers of
Skyworks and Advanced Analogic Technologies may be deemed as participants in the solicitation of
proxies from the holders of Advanced Analogic Technologies common stock and in respect to the
proposed transaction. Ill now turn over the call to Dave for his comment on the transaction.
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Thank you, Steve. Welcome, everyone. Today we are pleased to announce that we have entered
into a definitive agreement to acquire Advanced Analogic Technologies, a leading analog
semiconductor company focused on enabling energy-efficient platforms in consumer electronics in
computing and in communications markets. This transaction is following on the heels of our recent
SiGe announcement, represents yet another step in Skyworks transformation into a highly
diversified analog Company.
As most of you know, Advanced Analogic Technologies, or AATI, offers a wide range of highly
integrated, high-performance power management ICs that provide critical battery charging, power
conversion, and voltage regulation, as well as display and lighting functionality within mobile
communications. Their integrated approach offers customers improved efficiencies, smaller size and
lower cost when compared to other discrete power management implementations. And today is being
leveraged by a marquee list of customers and reference designs partners that include Broadcom,
includes HTC, LG, Qualcomm, Samsung, Sony, ZTE and others.
When combined with Skyworks, this will enable us to further capitalize on our already strong
positions within smart phones, tablets, set-top boxes, base stations and other broadband access
devices. And while at the same time, accelerating our entry into new adjacent applications like LED
high-definition televisions, new applications like cable modems and home gateways to name just a
few.
Our customers today are increasingly demanding both ubiquitous wireless connectivity and power
optimization across seemingly every kind of electronic device. And Skyworks will now be
well-positioned to address these massive twin market opportunities by leveraging our broad customer
relationships, our leadership product portfolios and increasing operational scale. In our view,
this deal shares a lot of commonality with the SiGe transaction. Both deals are highly
complementary to our existing product lines and will be immediately accretive to our financial
results post-closing. And, as well discuss, like SiGe, AATI offers a high degree of integration
synergies, both in new revenue opportunities, as well as operational efficiencies.
So let me take just a moment to provide you with some very specific examples of how AATI
strategically fits with Skyworks. First, this acquisition expands our market footprint by
broadening our served markets. AATI provides Skyworks with immediate access to entirely new
high-growth markets. The analog power management market is expected to grow to $12.1 billion by
2014, and thats up from $9.9 billion in 2010. This is according quarter to Gartner Market
Research. And power management semiconductors remain an indispensable element in todays electronic
devices. This is driven by the need for longer battery life, by greater efficiency. By leveraging
AATIs products and technologies, Skyworks will gain entry to exciting new growth markets, like LED
high-definition televisions and portable displays, e-books, digital cameras, and LED lighting, just
to name a few.
Secondly, this acquisition enables us to expand our footprint in existing served markets by
leveraging our strong sales channel and our Tier one OEM customer relationships. And given that we
support all leading smart phone and tablets suppliers, we see substantial longer-term revenue
opportunities as we expand our portfolio to include AATIs leading power management products,
including battery chargers, DC-to-DC converters, voltage regulators, and LED and camera flash
drivers. And these sales channels will enable us to continue our recent track record of both shared
gains and outperformance of the overall semiconductor market.
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And finally, AATI substantially strengthens our technology leadership position within the smart
phone market and by providing us complementary new processes and technologies. Via this
acquisition, we will add over 110 patents to our intellectual property base.
Additionally, with 3G and 4G driving higher and higher demands on battery life, Skyworks will now
enable greater level of integration within the transmit chain. We will be providing front-end
solutions that optimize both power efficiencies and RF performance. We see this trend playing out
not only across the mobile Internet, but also within our key vertical market segments, like smart
energy and like wireless working. Ill now turn the call over to Don to discuss the financial
aspects of the deal.
Don Palette Skyworks Solutions, Inc. VP and CFO
Thanks, Dave, and good afternoon, everyone. We are obviously very pleased with this
acquisition. As Dave mentioned, this transaction will be accretive to our non-GAAP earnings
post-closing. Further, we see substantial opportunity to improve AATIs business model through a
number of operational and cost synergies. Similar to SiGe, we expect to leverage our world-class,
high-volume assembly and test capabilities to lower outsourced, back-end processing costs, as well
as the Skyworks global supply chain to enhance AATIs margin structure. In fact, we believe this
business will contribute 50% gross margin, which we expect to achieve in the midterm, putting it on
par with its peers.
In summary, by combining AATIs power management portfolio with Skyworks sales channels and
operational scale, we see tremendous potential to increase Skyworks growth trajectory and
profitability.
Okay, now turning to the terms of the transaction. Skyworks has entered into an agreement to
acquire AATI for a nominal price of $6.13 per share, representing a 52% premium to their 30-day
trailing average. Specifically, the transaction price consists of approximately $3.68 per share in
cash and 0.08725 of a share of Skyworks common stock for each outstanding share of AATI common
stock. The stock component represents a nominal value of $2.45 a share.
We have developed a framework that ensures that AATI shareholders will receive $6.13 per share of
value regardless of how Skywork stock trades between now and closing. Further details of the
transaction are contained in our joint press release. We will provide you with more detail on both
the financial impact, as well as the accounting for the transaction post-closing. Before turning
the call over to Richard, I would like to congratulate him and the entire AATI team on their
accomplishment. They have developed highly innovative analog products and possess world-class
talent. We are all very excited about the opportunities ahead for the combined Company.
Richard Williams Advanced Analogic Technologies CEO and CTO
Thank you, Don. All of us at Analogic Tech are equally excited about the opportunities created
by the combination with Skyworks. This is a terrific outcome for Analogic Techs customers,
employees, and most importantly, our shareholders. Like us, Skyworks has been capitalizing on the
smart phone, tablet and broadband revolution. And we believe that their scale advantages and
extensive customer breadth will be tremendous assets moving forward. Both of us realize the
enormity in growth potential of the power management semiconductor market, and together we can
better address our customers demand for highly integrated power management IC solutions across a
broader range of markets and applications.
We are quite pleased with the progress we have made recently to better position the Company for
growth and margin expansion. We are just beginning to reap the benefits from the cost reduction
initiatives we have taken, combined with increased revenue and contribution from new product
introductions across our end markets. We are confident that the synergies associated with this deal
will enable us to build upon this foundation and help accelerate our business plan.
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Our employees will now be part of a larger, global, dynamic organization, with our shareholders
while our shareholders will realize the considerable value of our Company through the deal
premium and ownership in Skyworks. Needless to say, I am thrilled about the acquisition, and look
forward to working with Dave and his team throughout the integration process.
Steve Ferranti Skyworks Solutions Inc IR
Okay, thank you Richard. That concludes our prepared remarks, so operator, lets open the line
for questions.
QUESTION AND ANSWER
Operator
(Operator Instructions). And well take our first question from George Iwanyc with
Oppenheimer.
George Iwanyc Oppenheimer & Co. Analyst
Thank you for taking my questions, and congratulations on the deal.
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Thank you.
George Iwanyc Oppenheimer & Co. Analyst
Don, you mentioned that you expect to be able to improve gross margins and operating margins
with some changes in the back-end and other activities. Do you see this as a business that gets to
Skyworks average operating margin? And are there any additional cuts that you expect from an
operating standpoint at Analog AATI?
Don Palette Skyworks Solutions, Inc. VP and CFO
George, thanks for the question. Absolutely. Weve got if you look at where AATIs margins
have been in the last reporting period and specific initiatives they have in play, their product
margins are actually going to be very close to our Skyworks margins out of the gate. And then we
are working with the integration team to outline other specific initiatives that are going to drive
us in the midterm to that 50%.
So the answer to your question is with the revenue opportunities and synergies in play coupled with
the margins in place today and the synergies on the margin line and some of the other cost
synergies, we absolutely think that this the overall impact of this transaction is to move our
business model forward.
George Iwanyc Oppenheimer & Co. Analyst
So on a moderate term, you feel comfortable with getting to the same operating type of margin?
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Don Palette Skyworks Solutions, Inc. VP and CFO
Absolutely, as we had said in the SiGe call last week, we havent changed our midterm model
goals whatsoever that we already have in place.
Operator
Thank you. Moving on, we will take a question from Parag Agarwal with UBS.
Parag Agarwal UBS Analyst
Hello, guys. Thanks for taking my question. Dave, just wanted to get a feel for the overall
strategy of the Company going forward. You had made [two good] acquisitions. So I just wanted to
get a feel of how you plan to position the Company. Youre entering new markets. Youre making
[adjustment] acquisitions. So where do what is the vision for the Company going forward?
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Thank you. I think, the vision hasnt changed one bit through these acquisitions; its
enhanced. We have always desired to become increasingly diversified analog semiconductor leader. No
more, no less. Weve done that in our mobile Internet space by adding customers, by adding
base-band partnerships, by adding products. And then weve also done that in our linear products
businesses by adding a strong presence in an analog component business with higher margins. And
more recently in the last few years, really diving into certain vertical markets, where we are able
to penetrate places like energy management markets like infrastructure and the like. And the
combination of those has given us a much more predictable high margin, high growth overall
enterprise. We like that model of diversification a lot.
But I think as most people probably understand that growing verticals into new vertical markets
organically takes a long time. And given the strength of the balance sheet given the cash flow the
weve consistently been able to generate, weve chosen to go out and augment that organic strategy
with very, very selective acquisitions that position us strongly and quickly into these new
vertical markets. And we furthermore look to leverage our customer relationships, our manufacturing
scales, our R&D scales to take those existing businesses and help them to grow even faster under
the Skyworks umbrella. So the strategy is exactly the same, diversification, margin expansion,
growth, and analog leadership.
Parag Agarwal UBS Analyst
Okay. And secondly, Richard, could you tell us what were the challenges you were facing at
AATI in growing the revenue and profitability? And how do you plan to adjusted it once you are in
Skyworks umbrella?
Richard Williams Advanced Analogic Technologies CEO and CTO
Well I think some of it is simply a matter of economy of scale, that as a small Company, we
have public costs. And that takes away from the bottom line operating margin. As a small supplier,
then you have to work very hard to penetrate the large accounts. And we believe that coupled with
Skyworks, that will open up new accounts for us, and will also strengthen the portfolio for both
Companies by being able to offer systems solutions to those customers, where before we were
offering point products. So that makes us a more valuable supplier in the broad market, and there
is a me-too phenomenon. Once we start breaking into more and more of the big accounts together,
then other companies will want to buy our products because they wont want to be left out of the
performance improvements that we offer.
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Parag Agarwal UBS Analyst
Thank you.
Operator
All right, thank you. And moving on, we will go to Quinn Bolton with Needham & Co.
Quinn Bolton Needham & Company Analyst
Hello, guys. Just first off, congratulations on the announcement. Just wanted to try and get a
sense on some of the synergies, or opportunities, both in the handset and some of the other
markets. Dave, can you just address how much additional dollar content do you see in the handset,
whether its in RF chain, with things like DC to DC converters, or perhaps envelope tracking
amplifiers? And then also other analog power management devices throughout the rest of the smart
phone, and then can you similar questions about what content are you seeing in terms of LED
lighting or LED TVs?
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Okay, there is a lot in that question. Let me try to take it up a little, take it up a notch.
First, there are a number of similarities and synergies, in fact, between AATI and Skyworks. Power
management and front-end solutions, for example, are adjacent analog markets. And in fact, in a
smart phone or a tablet, they sit side-by-side. So one of the things we can obviously be able to do
right away, is we can take those customers that dont use AATIs products today because they either
are put off by the lack of manufacturing scale or the relationship simply doesnt exist or they
havent been able to put as much time developing the channel into those customers. We think we can
immediately take those products that are sitting side by side on the board next to ours and begin
to bundle those, perhaps even integrate those, but certainly be able to sell to a new set of
customers. So thats the easy one and the first step.
And then we have been able to add some new adjacent markets that we are very excited about. We have
talked a lot about green energy and our participation in Zigbee in-home networking in the meters
themselves. So we think now that theres going to be, over the next decade, a big push for lighting
and for other power optimization functions within the home, within the business, within the
enterprise, that the combination of the new companies, well be able to address uniquely under one
umbrella that our competitors simply cant match.
Quinn Bolton Needham & Company Analyst
Okay thank you.
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Thank you.
Operator
All right, thank you. And moving on, we will go to Nathan Johnsen with Pacific Crest
Securities.
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Nathan Johnsen Pacific Crest Securities Analyst
Thanks for taking my question. I was wondering if you could provide a little bit of a break
down for AATI on current revenue by end market. How much of it is currently smart phones versus
some of the other end markets that you talked about?
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
I think handheld and handset together is around 60% of the revenue. Of the handset sales, the
greatest majority, and actually the growth is greatest in the smart phone portion. Thats because
primarily the ASP of products and ultra low cost phones is quite low. So even if you have a high
volume, youre not getting high revenues. So we see the smart phone being the largest portion of
that, and I believe that the phone portion of handheld and handset is in the range of, depending on
the quarter between 35%, 40%.
Liam Griffin Skyworks Solutions, Inc. SVP, Sales and Marketing
Yes, let me add to that I think if you look at this is Liam. What we see going forward, and
what we really like about this technology is not only will we gain content in smart phones with
pure play, DC to DC and voltage regulators, pure play power management. Weve got LED backlighting,
camera flash. We also see great opportunities in display and lighting, where you go with drivers,
really on the green power space that would line up with our Zigbee solutions.
In addition to that, we think theres a margin play for us leveraging our infrastructure accounts.
And as you know, we have a very strong vertical there with companies like Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens,
Alcatel-Lucent, Wahwei. Every one of these accounts presents a power management opportunity that we
have seen at Skyworks and we now can address as partners with AATI.
Richard Williams Advanced Analogic Technologies CEO and CTO
And also on the TV space, we are just now beginning to get design wins and revenue ramps. And
that is also a tremendous opportunity because just the power management alone in the television
will run anywhere from $3.00, maybe up to $7.00 or $8.00 per set, and we also now begin to see
front-end RF solutions that will be inter-television communication within a home, and wi-fi and
Bluetooth connectivity. And we see that all as a general interface that will combine power and RF
functionality in adjacent solutions.
Nathan Johnsen Pacific Crest Securities Analyst
Great, thats really helpful. One last thing. Just curious, and I imagine it varies greatly
depending on the end market. With smartphones, you guys have key competitors that you go head to
head with, or is it pretty good mixture?
Richard Williams Advanced Analogic Technologies CEO and CTO
In the AATI space, we primarily see on the high functionality solutions, we compete primarily
with Texas instruments and with Maxim.
Operator
All right, thank you. (Operator Instructions). And moving on, we will take a question from
Eric Rasmussen with Stifel Nicolaus.
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Erik Rasmussen Stifel Nicolaus Analyst
Hi, thanks for taking the questions. Just real quick, maybe start with Dave. Can you dive in a
little bit more how you think AATI will be integrated into Skyworks? It seems like there is
obviously a lot of places were they can help with the integration and bundling. Could you maybe
give a little more color on that?
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Sure. Well, of course, the integration teams are working hard through the details as we speak.
As Don mentioned, in our next conference call, we will give you a great deal of more color and
detail because were working through that process right now. Were finalizing plans to leverage the
channel that you mentioned that. Lower product cost, we see a lot of synergy by driving
manufacturing volumes to our channel, whether its [yield], whether its lower cost purchasing,
volume purchasing power, packaging costs, and so, we see a great deal of synergy.
How well operate this business, this is going to be a perfect vertical market, or a couple of new
vertical markets, under our newly announced high-performance analog business unit that many of you
know, Liam Griffin. It is in his capable hands. We are going to be leading that business and
looking to leverage dedicated non-handset applications, resources, distribution channels, and the
like. So we will be looking to leverage
heavily one supply chain organization. Then, of course, there will be numerous not only top line
synergies, but cost synergies. And as Don mentioned, when all this integration is done, it will be
accretive to our gross margin; itll be accretive to our overall returns.
Erik Rasmussen Stifel Nicolaus Analyst
Great and you think any sense of timing on that? And one last question?
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
The timing for the integration, we view the need to integrate these businesses very quickly.
We know how to do it. Weve got our best and brightest people working on the detailed plans. So the
integration will happen very, very quickly. Will be able to talk through most, if not all of the
details when we next get together.
Operator
All right, thank you very much. Moving on, we will take a question from Blayne Curtis with
Barclays Capital.
Blayne Curtis Barclays Capital Analyst
Thanks, guys. A couple questions. One, I apologize if this is already asked, but Im trying to
better understand the synergies. Obviously, same customer base, what about on the design process?
Youre not in RF chain as a power group. If you can just explain the design process and how this
fits in and whether theres any synergies there? And then I have a follow-up one.
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
I think there clearly will be some synergies in how we do our design characterization, product
validation, and so on. The way we sample our products and create prototypes, and then drive very
quick turnaround on sampling. In terms of the design tools, therell be some commonality and some
differences, but thats really a minor issue at the moment. But we see more synergies than we do
dissimilarities, and we will be looking to exercise those quickly.
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Blayne Curtis Barclays Capital Analyst
Great. As the bigger vision of being supplying more to these customers. Is this the
strategy here? Youre definitely seeing in the power chain a lot of integration of other components
from some of the competitors, the TI and Maxim that Richard mentioned. Is this something how do
you view the vision here? Is it hobbling together more pieces, and actually owning a lot more of
the silicon outside of the RF chain?
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Well thats a great question. And it really differs by market and product segment. Some pure
performance oriented, it will be they will be side-by-side adjacent. We will be able to
immediately move new products both from SiGe and from AATI into our existing customer set.
Were also with SiGe we talked about silicon-germanium and silicon on insulator. I think Richard
very clearly defined what the process, the differentiation is, and manufacturing differentia is
within AATI. So were going to have, under one umbrella, were going to have the best-in-class
process functionality for whatever analog challenges our customers may face. Its going to be
everything from CMOS to SOI to silicon-germanium to PHEMP to HPT to modular BCD modular
technology. And the ability to pull it all together on an MCM, for example, in
Mexicali. So we have a toolkit that we think is as broad or broader than anybody in the universe to
provide high-performance analog in whatever form factor, or whatever process for the function makes
the more sense for the application.
Richard Williams Advanced Analogic Technologies CEO and CTO
And in todays I might add, in todays system solutions, a handset manufacturer has to buy
an RF component from one supplier and an analog from another. And then they have to figure out how
those two play together. But, well be able to design chipsets that are already married to maximize
the efficiency and the performance. And you start to begin to see the real power savings that
happens when you dynamically regulate the voltage on RF power amplifiers. Thats a key for 4G,
thats the key for WiFi. We see that will just continue to improve.
Blayne Curtis Barclays Capital Analyst
Thanks so much.
Operator
All right, great. Well, it appears we have no further questions in our queue at this time. Id
like to turn the conference back over to Mr. Aldrich for any additional or closing remarks.
Dave Aldrich Skyworks Solutions, Inc. President and CEO
Thank you, operator, and thanks so much for participating today. We look forward to seeing you
at upcoming conferences.
Operator
Thank you very much. Again, ladies and gentlemen, that does conclude todays conference.
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