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Agere Files Patent Suit Over Wi-Fi
News Wi-Fi chipmaker Agere Systems has filed a patent infringement lawsuit against rival Intersil, the company said on Friday. The lawsuit alleges that Intersil has been using Agere's patented wireless techniques in Intersil chipsets without paying for...
[October 21, 2002, 8:42]
Agere Chips Ring Up Wi-Fi Internet Phones
News A new set of chips from Agere, announced on Tuesday, aims to make it easier for mobile phone makers to integrate cheap Wi-Fi-based Internet telephone calls into their devices. Some manufacturers are already making wireless voice over Internet...
[July 15, 2003, 11:50]
Agere, Ericsson Team On Wi-Fi
News Agere Systems and Ericsson are teaming up to offer a package of products and services intended to help Internet service providers cultivate a burgeoning wireless technology. The products and services from Agere and Ericsson will allow service...
[October 24, 2002, 14:17]
Agere's Switch Chip Outpaces Competition
News Agere said on Monday that it has developed a chip that can switch voice, data and video signals four times faster than its competition, signalling a breakthrough in a financially strapped telecommunications industry.
[October 21, 2002, 15:35]
Mobile Hard Drive Revolution Proposed
News If the engineers at Agere Systems have their way, small hard drives will play an even bigger role in music players, mobile phones and other handheld devices. Agere is working on a chip product to consolidate hard drive tasks with other functions...
[October 11, 2004, 15:10]
From Chaos To Core Competency
White Papers Agere, located in Allentown, Pa.is a leading maker of integrated chips for wireless devices, disk drives and network gear, with 7,000 employees and about $2 billion in annual sales. The solution for Agere was straightforward: Start taking full...
[December 7, 2005, 23:00]
New Year Brings Tech Mergers
News Several technology companies announced acquisitions to strengthen their market positions at the start of the New Year, including communications-chip maker Agere Systems and identity management firm Netegrity.
[January 5, 2004, 9:00]
Proxim Case Study: Wireless Volcanoes?
White Papers Using a combination of Agere Systems ORiNOCO Outdoor Routers, Access Points, and World PC Cards, UFRO and UTFSM have implemented this "Wireless Multimedia IP Network. Burgos has been involved with radio technology since 1989, just prior to the...
[June 25, 2004, 0:00]
Faster WLAN Promise May Obscure Benefits Of Current Products
News Both Agere, the former Lucent division, and Intel, are launching similar products - a wireless base station with room for two transmitters, supporting the upcoming 54Mbps 802.11a technology alongside the existing 802.11b standard which offers 11Mbps.
[October 8, 2001, 19:25]
Storage Maker Targets Small Businesses
News LSI also announced it has agreed a $4bn acquisition of Agere Systems. Agere, a telecoms supplier, was at one time part of AT&T's Bell Labs before being spun off as part of Lucent. Agere held its value after the news was announced.
[December 6, 2006, 15:48]
New FireWire Forges Ahead At Double Speed
News Dan Devine, a senior product manager for both USB and 1394 products at chipmaker Agere Systems, said USB 2.0 is slightly further along in development than 1394b. Texas Instruments and Agere, a Lucent Technologies spinoff, are expected to be two of...
[May 24, 2001, 10:02]
Bluetooth Pushes Into New Markets
News On Tuesday, Agere Systems said that it is working with Taiwan original design manufacturer (ODM) Universal Scientific Industrial on an 802.11b/Bluetooth module specifically designed for handheld devices.
[June 17, 2003, 13:15]
HP Unveils Linux-based Laptop
Talkback Order the notebook from HP with Suse, and the Agere tri-mode wireless won't work, the Bluetooth won't work, suspend/hibernate won't work, etc, etc, etc -- in spite of the fact that you can give HP your money for these things right on their website.
[August 4, 2004, 15:09]
Orinoco Floats WLAN Management Tool
News It's the first software-only product from the company, whose sale to rival Proxim has been agreed by current owner Agere, and illustrates a need for multi-vendor WLAN management efforts from groups such as IEEE and WECA.
[July 5, 2002, 7:57]
Intel Wireless Tech To Be Five Times Faster
News Cisco, Agere and 3Com representatives said their companies are developing new wireless technology based on the faster 802.11a standard, but declined to state when they will release the products. They compete against market leaders Cisco Systems and...
[September 10, 2001, 9:58]
Modern Computing On The Head Of A Pin
News The transistor was first manufactured commercially at the former Western Electric plant (which later became Agere Systems) on Union Boulevard in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in 1951. Agere merged with LSI Logic on 2 April, 2007 to form LSI Corporation.
[January 29, 2008, 11:49]
Microsoft Tech Ed Hosts Europe's Largest WLAN
News Visitors to Microsoft's Tech Ed developer event this week have been online wherever they are in Barcelona's Monjuic 2 conference centre, thanks to Europe's biggest ever wireless LAN, set up in just three days by Orinoco, the wireless LAN company...
[July 4, 2002, 15:02]
Lucent Sells Optical Fibre Business For $2.75bn
News The sale clears the way for Lucent to spin off the remainder of Agere Systems. Furukawa will pay $2.525bn for the bulk of the business, while Corning will shell out $225m in cash for Lucent's interests in Lucent's Chinese joint ventures, Lucent...
[July 25, 2001, 10:38]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog Today alone has seen news on the spread of Wi-Fi across the English landscape, with public access points sprouting up like so much giant hogweed, while a report from the US says wireless chipmaker Agere has demonstrated a 162Mbps system.
[November 22, 2002, 17:08]
Applied Micro Leads Chip-speed War
News Applied Micro) has a lead here, and in some cases it's a big lead," said principle analyst Linley Gwennap of the Linley Group, who says he does not expect other major chipmakers such as Vitesse Semiconductor, Motorola, IBM, Intel and Agere Systems...
[March 26, 2002, 8:50]
