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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001214659-18-002670
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	PX14A6G
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		1
FILED AS OF DATE:		20180406
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20180406
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20180406

SUBJECT COMPANY:	

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS, INC.
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0000004127
		STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION:	SEMICONDUCTORS & RELATED DEVICES [3674]
		IRS NUMBER:				042302115
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			DE
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0929

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G
		SEC ACT:		1934 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	001-05560
		FILM NUMBER:		18742331

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		20 SYLVAN ROAD
		CITY:			WOBURN
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01801
		BUSINESS PHONE:		6179355150

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		20 SYLVAN ROAD
		STREET 2:		20 SYLVAN ROAD
		CITY:			WOBURN
		STATE:			MA
		ZIP:			01801

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	SKYWORKS SOLUTIONS INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	20020627

	FORMER COMPANY:	
		FORMER CONFORMED NAME:	ALPHA INDUSTRIES INC
		DATE OF NAME CHANGE:	19920703

FILED BY:		

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			Chevedden John
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001734335

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		PX14A6G

	MAIL ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		2215 NELSON AVE., NO. 205
		CITY:			REDONDO BEACH
		STATE:			CA
		ZIP:			90278
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Shareholder Memo</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Vote against the defensive Ratification of Special Meeting Provisions Proposal (5)</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The Do-Nothing Management Proposal</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">There are at least 2 reasons to vote against the special meeting ratification proposal in the 2018 proxy &#8211; the do-nothing management proposal.</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">It calls for Skyworks Solutions,&#160;Inc. management to do nothing in regard to the current special meeting provisions.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">This defensive ratification proposal is a waste of shareholder money.</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">If this ratification proposal was omitted from the ballot &#8211; Skyworks Solutions shareholders would still have the provisions called for in the defensive ratification proposal.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The real purpose of the defensive ratification proposal is to prevent shareholders from voting on a reasonable shareholder proposal that was submitted first for 10% of shares to call a special meeting. A similar shareholder proposal won 94% shareholder support at Nuance Communications (NUAN) in February 2018.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">This is the defensive Skyworks Solutions no-action request to prevent SWKS shareholders from voting on the reasonable shareholder proposal:</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Skyworks Solutions, Inc. (March 23, 2018)</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; COLOR: #0000ff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><u>https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/14a-8/2018/cheveddenskyworks032318-14a8.pdf</u></div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Skyworks Solutions should advise how much shareholder money was spent on this defensive no-action request by a big law firm &#8211; to see if it is a 5-figure sum.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">At the time that the shareholder proposal was submitted SWKS shareholders had no right to call a special meeting. Then to fend off the the reasonable shareholder proposal for 10% of shareholders to call a special meeting SWKS management adopted a largely unworkable version of the shareholder proposal. First it increased the ownership threshold to 25% and then disqualified all shares owned for less than one year.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Thus the owners of 50% of shares might need to be contacted simply to find 25% of shares owned for more than one year. Then 70% or 80% of shares might need to be contacted to find the shareholders who would make the demanding formal efforts to support the special meeting &#8211; all within a narrow time window. Plus many shareholders, who want a special meeting, can make a small paperwork error that will disqualify their shares from counting toward the dual threshold of 25% ownership and one-year of ownership. And SWKS will watch the incoming paperwork like a hawk.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Thus the first reason to vote against the do-nothing ratification proposal is to support a more realistic ownership threshold which is less than the current dual threshold of 25% ownership and one-year of ownership.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The second reason to vote against the do-nothing ratification proposal is to send a message to management that a one-sided management ratification proposal in support of doing nothing is no substitute for a shareholder proposal that gives shareholders the choice of making a reasonable improvement in the right of shareholders to call a special meeting.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">If the shareholder proposal had been published in the 2018 proxy &#8211; SWKS management could have even overwhelmed the shareholder proposal with 3-times as many words in opposition. (Apparently 3-to-1 was not enough of a home field advantage for SWKS management.)</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">With the ratification proposal replacing the shareholder proposal &#8211; shareholders can only read the one-sided management ratification text that is overwhelmingly in support of doing nothing.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">It is an advantage for shareholders to have a choice and to make a decision based on reading both sides of an issue.</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Other companies will have 2018 copycat versions of the SWKS do-nothing proposal:</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">CF Industries Holdings, Inc.</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Capital One Financial Corporation (COF)</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">JPMorgan Chase &amp; Co. (JPM)</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">eBay Inc. (EBAY)</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">AES Corp (AES)</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">One can read the defensive no-action requests for the above companies at:</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Division of Corporation Finance</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">2018 No-Action Letters Issued Under Exchange Act Rule 14a-8</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; COLOR: #0000ff; TEXT-ALIGN: left"><u>https://www.sec.gov/divisions/corpfin/cf-noaction/2018_14a-8.shtml</u></div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Vote against the defensive Ratification of Special Meeting Provisions Proposal (5)</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">The Do-Nothing Management Proposal</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">John Chevedden</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Skyworks Solutions shareholder since 2013</div>

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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">Written materials are submitted pursuant to Rule 14a-6(g)(1) promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.*&#160;</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">*Submission is not required of this filer under the terms of the Rule, but is made voluntarily in the interest of public disclosure and consideration of these important issues.</div>

<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; TEXT-ALIGN: left">This is not a solicitation of authority to vote your proxy.&#160; Please DO NOT send us your proxy card; the shareholder is not able to vote your proxies, nor does this communication contemplate such an event.&#160; The shareholder urges shareholders to vote against Ratification of Special Meeting Provisions (the defensive Do-Nothing Management Proposal) following the instruction provided on the management&#8217;s proxy mailing.</div>

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