Skyworks Solutions Inc., an innovator of high performance analog semiconductors connecting people, places and things, announced that its board of directors has appointed Liam K. Griffin as chief executive officer. Mr. Griffin was also elected to the board of directors of Skyworks effective May 11, 2016. David J. Aldrich, Skyworks' chief executive officer since 2000, will assume the newly established role of executive chairman and, in that position, will continue to serve as the chairman of Skyworks' board of directors.