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Atheros
Demonstrates Its Expanded Communications Technology
Portfolio at Computex Taipei
New Solutions
Enhance the User Experience with High Capacity Home
Networking and Enable Innovative Mobile Wireless
Products
COMPUTEX,
TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 3, 2008 — Atheros
Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR), a leading developer
of advanced semiconductor system solutions for wireless
and wired communications, is demonstrating its greatly
expanded communications portfolio at Computex 2008.
This week Atheros will mark the achievement of two
milestones: its recent 10-year anniversary and having
shipped over 200 million wireless LAN chipsets. While
Atheros has grown its Wi-Fi leadership with a variety of
popular 802.11g solutions and the industry’s most
widely-adopted 802.11n solutions, the XSPAN® family of
technologies, the company has also broadened its
customer offering to include mobile WLAN, GPS, Bluetooth
and Ethernet. The entire portfolio is being demonstrated
at COMPUTEX in Taipei, Taiwan, June 3-7, 2008, in its
Technology Suite (#2407/2408) at the Grand Hyatt Taipei.
Atheros
XSPAN® 802.11n Family of Technologies
Atheros is demonstrating the
industry’s first single-board, dual-radio router
platform featuring single-chip 802.11n technology. The
new AR9002AP provides 600 Mbps aggregate PHY rates and
access to the full, 27-channel Wi-Fi spectrum to deliver
maximum home networking capacity and universal
connectivity to the growing number of devices on home
networks. The solution features the highest level of
chip and board integration to significantly lower the
cost of dual-concurrent, retail networking products.
Atheros is also demonstrating its
innovative iQUE™ technology suite, which enables a new
level of quality of service to enhance advanced wireless
networking in the home. The AR9002AP platform employs
iQUE to deliver smooth, reliable video streaming
throughout the home for the consummate user experience.
For more information about the AR9002AP solution, see
the product press release at
http://www.atheros.com/news/AR9002AP.htm
Atheros will demonstrate the
industry’s first shipping, single-chip 11n PCIe
solutions, the AR9280 and AR9281, in an array of PC
implementations. These designs are the most compact
802.11n solutions for PCs, and provide market-leading
11n performance and power efficiency. It will also
display the AR9220 and AR9223 PCI solutions for home
gateways, which deliver the cost and design efficiencies
of Atheros’ high-performance, single-chip 11n technology
to carrier customers.
Atheros
ROCm® Mobile WLAN, GPS and Bluetooth Technologies
Atheros is demonstrating the
world’s lowest power, mobile WLAN solution, the AR6002,
which features nominal impact on battery life, even in
active mode. This single-chip design is popular with
designers who are integrating Wi-Fi into devices like
smartphones, personal media players (PMPs), digital
still cameras, gaming and other portable consumer
electronics.
The company’s new GPS solutions – a
single-chip GPS receiver, the Atheros AR1511, and
companion ORION 3.0 software suite – will be
demonstrating state-of-the-art Assisted GPS (AGPS)
technology, which is essential for supporting advanced
navigation on mobile phones and other mobile devices.
Additionally, Atheros will be demonstrating a new
GPS-enabled platform featuring RMI’s Alchemy multimedia
processor and a compact SIP GPS module from AzureWave.
Atheros’ will also demonstrate its
ROCm Bluetooth for PCs, the AR3011, the industry’s first
Bluetooth solution engineered expressly to satisfy PC
requirements, and the AR3031 Bluetooth solution for
headsets, which offers market-leading power efficiencies
and design flexibility.
Atheros
ETHOS™ Ethernet
Technologies
Atheros will display a variety of
end user products with its Fast and Gigabit Ethernet
controller and PHY solutions, and also demonstrate its
ETHOS switch technology in the AR9002AP dual-radio
802.11n router.
About
Atheros Communications, Inc.
Atheros Communications is a leading
developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless
and wired communications products. Atheros combines its
wireless and networking systems expertise with
high-performance radio frequency (RF), mixed signal and
digital semiconductor design skills to provide highly
integrated chipsets that are manufactured on low-cost,
standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS)
processes. Atheros technology is used by a broad base of
leading customers, including personal computer,
networking equipment and consumer device manufacturers.
For more information, please visit
www.atheros.com or
send email to
info@atheros.com.
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Atheros, the Atheros
logo, XSPAN,, iQUE, ROCm and ETHOS are trademarks of
Atheros Communications, Inc. All other trademarks
mentioned in this document are the sole property of
their respective owners.
Note on Forward
Looking Statements
Except for the
historical information contained herein, the matters set
forth in this press release, including the features,
benefits and performance of Atheros’ products, are
forward-looking statements within the meaning of the
Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These
forward-looking statements are subject to risks and
uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ
materially, including, but not limited to, difficulties
in the development of new and enhanced products, general
economic conditions, the effects of competition and
technological change, and the risks detailed in Atheros'
Annual Report on Form 10-K for the year ended December
2007 and its Quarterly Report on form 10-Q for the
quarter ended March 31, 2008, as filed with the
Securities and Exchange Commission, and in other reports
filed with the SEC by Atheros from time to time. These
forward-looking statements speak only as of the date
hereof. Atheros disclaims any obligation to update these
forward-looking statements.
Dakota Lee, 408-720-5597, dakota@atheros.com, or Greg Wood, A&R Edelman for
Atheros, 650-762-2838,
gwood@ar-edelman.com
For
analyst inquires contact: Deborah Stapleton of Stapleton Communications, Inc.,
+1-650-470-0200,
deb@stapleton.com |
