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Company Name: Atheros Communications

Description: In May of 1998, the Atheros Communications was created by processing specialists. The founders came from the University of California, Berkeley, the Stanford University and private division. The company was recognized as a manufacturer of semiconductors used in wireless communications. The company is focused on manufacturing technology and parts to be used on personal computers, networking devices and consumer devices.

The company was officially introduced to the public in February 12, 2004. The introduction was guaranteed by the Banc of America Securities, Thomas Weisel Partners, Morgan Stanley and Lehman Brothers. At the beginning there were 10,350,000 shares sold at the initial price offer of $14.00 per share.

The management team of the company is handled by Dr. Craig H. Barratt, President and CEO. Members of the team include Vice Presidents for CFO & Corporate Development Jack R. Lazar, Computing and Consumer Networking Todd D. Antes, Engineering Richard G. Bahr, Mobile Wireless Business Unit Amir Faintuch, Operations Paul G. Franklin, Broadband Carrier Networking Ali Hariri, Software Development Charles Marker, Wireless Networking Business Unit Ben Naskar and Analog Engineering Dr. David Su. The company’s Chief Technical Officer is J. McFarland.

The company u-Nav a GPS chipmaker was acquired by Atheros in the later part of 1997. This decision has greatly made an impact on where the company is headed. The technologies that are being produced by Atheros incorporate WLAN Networking. This technology provides improved performance, wide coverage and lasting battery life to improve user experience.

Atheros is also into providing advanced multimedia networking. This is achieved by increasing the voice, video and data files transmission in a home and office environment. It also maintains dual band AP router solutions together with wireless experience. Through this, data rates are up by 300Mbps which is higher as compared to other 802.11 based networks.

A complete collection of WLAN solutions is the Atheros Align package. This is able to provide 150Mbps PHY rates which is better than other 11g coverage. Multi-stream and MIMO-based 802.11n technologies are also supported.

Atheros also manufactures Fast and Gigabit Ethernet, mobile WLAN, GPS and Bluetooth based technologies. Just recently, the company introduced to the public the Linux (open source) driver. This is for the use of 802.11 devices together with several binary HAL. This is also to assist the free software community to create third party software for their products.

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