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To: StanX Long who wrote (64049)	5/27/2002 9:59:44 PM
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TECHNOLOGY; Q & A; Wireless Signals; Alpha's CEO sees promise in the mobile phone market -- Los Angeles Times, 5/27/2002 e-insite.net The industry may be struggling, but two communications chip makers are forging ahead with plans to create the largest provider of semiconductors for cellular and other mobile telephones. The merger of the wireless division of Conexant Systems Inc. in Newport Beach, already the leading maker of power amplifier chips, and Alpha Industries Inc. in Woburn, Mass., is expected to close in mid-June. The new company, named Skyworks Solutions Inc., will be pushing hard in what it sees as its biggest area for growth: providing all the silicon content and software needed in cellular telephone handsets. Few companies worldwide can put the whole package together, said David J. Aldrich, who will become Skyworks' chief executive. The ability to provide that package will become more important, especially for low-end and entry-level phones, as manufacturers concentrate on putting more functions, such as video, onto cell phones. Those new functions are going to require speedier communications, which is the promise of the so-called 3G phones--the third generation of wireless cellular mobile devices. But when that happens depends on how soon demand picks up, said Aldrich, now Alpha's president and CEO. He said he will run the company from Massachusetts but might move the headquarters to Newport Beach at some point. Aldrich talked about the future of the industry--and Skyworks--now that chip and cell phone makers are digging themselves out of the backlog of products that has plagued them for the last year or so.