Huawei’s newest flagship P9 and P9 Plus smartphones are being enabled by a broad suite of devices from Skyworks. The devices include highly integrated modules to industry-leading analog control ICs. Specifically, Huawei’s latest mobile platforms are utilizing the low, mid, and high band architectures of the SkyOne Ultra 2.0 featuring integrated filters and SkyBlue technology, antenna tuners, power management devices and multi-throw switches. Their products address LTE advanced carrier aggregation standards and support up to nine global combinations, including the two most challenging mid-band/mid-band cases.
Carlos Bori, vice president of sales and marketing for Skyworks said - “Given our systems expertise and innovative designs,
With Skyone Ultra and SkyBlue, Skyworks is able to offer customers highly configurable and customized architectures that reduce complexity and deliver excellent performance. They are adeptly addressing carrier aggregation challenges and increasing frequency bands, while minimizing board size and optimizing battery life to provide competitive advantages and reduced time to market.
According to a forecast by GfK, China smartphone demand in 2016 is stronger than expected and could reach 442 million units, an increase of seven percent when compared to last year. In 2012, Huawei became the world’s third largest smartphone manufacturer and in 2015 was the first Chinese company to sell more than 100 million mobile phones in one year.
About Skyworks’ Broad Product Portfolio
The following solutions are powering Huawei’s P9 and P9 Plus platforms:
SkyOne Ultra 2.0 – a highly integrated single SKU LTE platform with flexible antenna support and a baseband agnostic interface which contains the company’s revolutionary SkyBlue technology for best in class power efficiencies and linear power capability:
SKY78113 – Low Band 3G/4G Tx-Rx SkyOne® Module
SKY78114 – Mid Band 3G/4G Tx-Rx SkyOne® Module
SKY78117 – High Band 3G/4G Tx-Rx SkyOne® Module
SKY77360-12 – 2G Power Amplifier Module
SKY87020-11 – RF Front-end Power Management IC
SKY19003 – Antenna Tuner
SKY19225 – Antenna Tuner
SKY13351 – Wi-Fi Single Pole, Double Throw Switch
SKY13552 – Double Pole 12 Throw Switch
SKY13598 – High Isolation Antenna Swap Switch
