By Stephen Nellis

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Skyworks Solutions CEO Phil Brace sees a path toward chips that would help smartphones have faster wireless data connections while consuming less power by combining his firm’s technologies with those from smaller Qorvo, he told Reuters in an interview on Wednesday.

Skyworks on Tuesday announced a cash and stock offer to buy the smaller Qorvo that values Qorvo at $9.76 billion. The two companies are both major suppliers to Apple and other smartphone firms, where their chips help to handle the radio signals that carry wireless data.

While the two firms do have some areas of competition, Brace said the challenge both face is the fast-growing amount of data that has to be processed on phones and shuffled back and forth between phones and data centers

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