4. Company Overview
• Founded in 1962
• Provide analog & mixed signal semiconductors
• Include a portfolio of a wide range of products
• Over 1,800 worldwide patents
• One of the world’s largest RF suppliers to the
smartphone industry
• Went public in 1990 as NASDAQ:SWKS
• IWF Score of 49
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8. Business Quality
• Strategic relationship with both Samsung &
Apple
• Quality of products
• Diversified portfolio
• Sustainable energy plans
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9. Management Quality
• Award winning management
• CEO: David Aldrich-12 years:
• 1,245% stock growth
• One of America’s best managed companies in 2014
• CTO: Dr. Peter L. Gammel
• 20 years experience in new product & funding development
• About 50 patents filings & more than 200 publications
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10. Industry Analysis: Porter’s Five Forces
Force Strength Analysis
Threat of New Entrants High • High capital requirement
• High economies of scale
Power of Suppliers Low • Lots of suppliers
• Low switching costs
Power of Buyers Low • Threat of backward integration
• Dominated by small large players
Availability of Substitutes Medium • Intellectual property rights
• “Copy cat”
Rivalry Medium • Pressure to develop new technology
• High exit barriers
• Few major players
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11. Industry Analysis: Demand Drivers
Gaming
20hrs-1.2GB
Music
Streaming
10hrs-1.7GB
Std. Def
Video
10hrs-2.6GB
High Def
Video
10hrs-10GB
4k Video
10hrs-30GB
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Cloud computing:
Significant & Growing
contributor to data
demand
Souce: U.S Cellulars, 4G Americas
Mean usage in North America per month
12. Industry
Analysis:
Demand Drivers
• Early stage of mobile payments
• Increasing growth for e-commerce
• Higher demand for businesses to connect with customers
through mobile
• New market opportunities: Connected Home & Automotive
Apps
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BiFET: Bipolar Field Effect Transistor, CMOS: complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor-intergrating circuits
Leverage: Semiconductors businesses have debt-free model: fund itself through cash surpluses accumulated during booms
With gratuitous debt: no benefit for the companies in terms of new facilities or extra capabilities, but impose as a huge additional burden and a massive extra cost of doing business