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| Wireless LAN chips for Atheros Communications TowerSemiconductor Ltd., a pure-play independentspecialty foundry, today announced that the company has begun the productionof wireless LAN products for Atheros Communications, Inc., aleading developer of advanced wireless solutions. The wireless LANsemiconductor market in which Atheros competes is projected to be $3 billionin 2009."We are pleased to add Tower Semiconductor to our list of qualifiedvendors, " said Paul Franklin, vice president of operations at AtherosCommunications. "We have set stringent qualification standards for all of ourwafer suppliers and Tower has passed on all levels." "We are glad that Atheros has chosen to manufacture some of its advancedwireless devices in Tower's Fab 2, " said Yossi Netzer, general manager ofmixed-signal & RF product line at Tower Semiconductor. "The Atheros WLANproducts feature breakthrough technologies that save power while increasingthroughput and extending the range of 802.11 networks. The company achievesthis high performance in integrated, single-chip RF designs manufacturedusing low-cost, digital CMOS. We look forward to a longstanding relationshipthat enables Atheros to continue to bring superior products to market." write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Networking News :: home page |