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Description of Business | 1. Description of Business Silicon Laboratories Inc. (the “Company”), a Delaware corporation, is a leader in secure, intelligent wireless technology for a more connected world. Our integrated hardware and software platform, intuitive development tools, industry-leading ecosystem, and robust support help customers build advanced industrial, commercial, home, and life applications. The Company provides analog-intensive, mixed-signal solutions for use in a variety of electronic products in a broad range of applications for the Internet of Things (IoT) including connected home and security, industrial automation and control, smart metering, smart lighting, commercial building automation, consumer electronics, asset tracking and medical instrumentation. Within the semiconductor industry, the Company is known as a “fabless” company meaning that the integrated circuits (ICs) incorporated in its products are manufactured by third-party foundry semiconductor companies. On July 26, 2021, the Company sold its infrastructure and automotive business to Skyworks Solutions, Inc for $2.75 billion in cash. The financial results of the infrastructure and automotive business have been presented as discontinued operations in the Consolidated Financial Statements. See Note 3, Discontinued Operations, for additional information.

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