corresp
February 15, 2011
BY EDGAR SUBMISSION
United States Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20549
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Mr. Kevin L. Vaughn, Accounting Branch Chief
Ms. Lynn Dicker, Reviewing Accountant
Mr. Gary Newberry, Staff Accountant |
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Skyworks Solutions, Inc.
Form 10-K for the Fiscal Year Ended October 1, 2010
Filed November 29, 2010
Form 8-K dated November 4, 2010
File No. 001-05660 |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (Skyworks or the Company), submits this letter in response to the
comments regarding the above referenced filings contained in a letter dated January 19, 2011 from
Kevin L. Vaughn, Accounting Branch Chief of the staff (the Staff) of the United States Securities
and Exchange Commission (the Commission), to Donald W. Palette, Chief Financial Officer of
Skyworks. The Companys responses to the comments contained in the Staffs letter are set forth
below and are keyed to the numbering of the comments and headings used in the Staffs letter. For
your reference, the Staffs comments are reproduced in italics and the Companys responses are set
forth below each comment in standard type.
Form 10-K For the Fiscal Year Ended October 1, 2010
Gross Profit, page 32
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We note your disclosure that you benefit from the higher contribution margins of licensing
and/ or sale of intellectual property. Please tell us the impact of these items and quantify
such amounts in future filings if material to the understanding of your results of operations.
Refer to item (303)(A)(3) of Regulation S-K. |
781.376.3000 www.skyworksinc.com 20 Sylvan Rd. Woburn, MA 01801 USA
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Response:
For the Companys fiscal year ended October 1, 2010, the Companys licensing and/or sale of
intellectual property transactions improved the Companys overall gross profit margin by 17 basis
points.
In future filings, if the Companys licensing and/or sale of intellectual property transactions are
material to the understanding of the Companys results of operations, the Company will quantify the
impact of such transactions on overall gross profit margin, taking into account Item (303)(A)(3) of
Regulation S-K.
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In future filings, if your licensing or sale of intellectual property revenues are greater
than 10% of your total revenues, please present them separately on the face of your statement
of operations. Refer to Rule 5-03(b) of Regulation S-X. |
Response:
For the Companys fiscal year ended October 1, 2010, net revenue from the Companys licensing
and/or sale of intellectual property transactions was 0.35 percent of the Companys total net
revenue. In future filings, if the Companys net revenue from licensing and/or sale of intellectual
property transactions exceeds 10% of the Companys total net revenue, the Company will separately
present the amount of such revenue on the face of the Companys statement of operations in
accordance with Rule 5-03(b) of Regulation S-X.
Notes to Consolidated Financial Statements, page 51
Note 10 Income Taxes, page 62
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We note your table of the provision for income taxes. Please separately disclose the impact
of the change in your tax valuation allowances in future filings. Refer to Accounting
Standards Codification 740-10-50-9(h). |
Response:
The change in the Companys tax valuation allowance during the fiscal year ended October 1, 2010
resulted in additional expense of $2.8 million. The Company believed that this change in tax
valuation allowance and the resulting expense were not significant and, pursuant to Accounting
Standards Codification 740-10-50-9(h), did not separately disclose the resulting expense in the
table of the provision for income taxes. The Company notes that the change in its
tax valuation allowance was disclosed in the statutory tax rate reconciliation table on Page 63 of
the Form 10-K. In future filings, the Company will separately disclose the impact of significant
changes in the Companys tax valuation allowance in its table for the provision for income taxes.
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Please tell us why state tax expense, net of federal benefit, is not separately disclosed in
the reconciliation of your statutory tax rate. If material, please disclose this item in
future filings. Refer to Rule 4-08(h)(2) of Regulation S-X. |
Response:
The Company notes that, when reconciling the statutory tax rate, Rule 4-08(h)(2) of Regulation S-X
allows for aggregation of reconciling items that are individually less than five percent of the
expected tax expense at the federal income tax rate. During the Companys fiscal year ended
October 1, 2010, its state tax expense was approximately $1.2 million, which was less than five
percent of the Companys expected tax expense at the federal income tax rate and, because the
Company did not otherwise deem it to be material, it was not separately disclosed in the rate
reconciliation. In future filings, the Company will disclose state tax expense, net of federal
benefit, as a separate reconciling item if it exceeds the five percent threshold or the Company
otherwise deems it to be material to an understanding of the reconciliation of its statutory tax
rate.
Note 18 Segment information and Concentrations, page 75
Concentrations, page 76
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In future filings, please quantify the sales to each of your major customers for each year a
statement of operations is presented. Refer to Accounting Standards Codification
280-10-50-42. Please further disclose any individual significant concentrations of credit
risk with such customers. Refer to Accounting Standards Codification 825-10-50-20. |
Response:
In future filings, the Company will quantify sales to its major customers in accordance with
Accounting Standards Codification 280-10-50-42. In addition, the Company will disclose
significant concentrations of credit risk with customers in accordance with Accounting Standards
Codification 825-10-50-20.
Form 8-K dated November 4, 2010
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We note your disclosure of non-GAAP diluted EPS in the title of your press release and in the
summary bullet points in the introduction of your press release. Additionally, we note the
disclosure of non-GAAP operation margins in the bullet points in the introduction to your
press release. In future filings, please include a presentation , with equal or greater
prominence, of the most directly comparable financial measures or measures calculated and
presented in accordance with GAAP in accordance with Item 10(e)(1)(i) of Regulation S-K. |
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Response:
In future filings containing non-GAAP financial measures (including such measures presented in the
title or bullet points of a press release), the Company will include a presentation, with equal or
greater prominence, of the most directly comparable GAAP measures in accordance with Item
10(e)(1)(i) of Regulation S-K.
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We note you are unable to provide a reconciliation of your forward looking estimate of Q1
2011 non-GAAP diluted earnings per share to a forward looking estimate of Q1 2011 GAAP diluted
earnings per share. Please disclose in future filings the probable significance of the
identified information that is unavailable to reconcile this measure. Refer to Section
II.A.3.b of Conditions for Use on Non-GAAP Financial Measures. |
Response:
With respect to future filings containing a forward looking estimate of non-GAAP diluted earnings
per share, the Company will disclose the probable significance of any identified information that
is unavailable, but necessary, to reconcile such forward looking estimate of non-GAAP diluted
earnings per share to a forward looking estimate of GAAP diluted earnings per share as outlined in
Section II.A.3.b of Conditions for Use of Non-GAAP Financial Measures.
Closing
In connection with this response, the Company hereby acknowledges that:
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the Company is responsible for the adequacy and accuracy of the disclosure in its
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Staff comments or changes to disclosure in response to Staff comments do not foreclose
the Commission from taking any action with respect to the filing; and |
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the Company may not assert Staff comments as a defense in any proceeding initiated by
the Commission or any person under the federal securities laws of the United States. |
If you require additional information, please telephone the undersigned at 781-376-3026 or
Mark V.B. Tremallo, Vice President and General Counsel of Skyworks, at 781-376-3099.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Donald W. Palette
Donald W. Palette
Chief Financial Officer
United States Securities And Exchange Commission
February 15, 2011
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Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP
Peter N. Handrinos, Esq.
Ian R. Kaminski, Esq. |