Atheros today announced what it claims is the first single-board, dual-radio router platform featuring single-chip 802.11n technology.
Atheros today announced two single-chip 802.11n products targeted at home gateway designs for service providers.
The new dual-band, 2.4GHz/5GHz, AR9220 and single-band, 2.4GHz AR9223 PCI devices flesh out Atheros' single-chip draft 11n lineup, which includes the dual-band AR9280 and single-band AR9281 PCI Express (PCIe) devices announced last month.
Both of the new chips feature 2 Tx, 2 Rx MIMO, in contrast to their PCIe siblings. The AR9280 dual-band PCIe device is 2x2, but the AR9281 single-band product is 1x2.
The Atheros AR9220 and AR9223 will be sampling to customers next month. Pricing was not given.
Atheros today announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire u-Nav Microelectronics , a privately held fabless semiconductor company specializing in global positioning system (GPS) chipsets and software.
Atheros gains 54 employees located at u-Nav's Irvine, CA headquarters and its European engineering facility in Tampere, Finland. Upon closing the transaction, Atheros will also take assignment of the patent cross-license agreement already in place between u-Nav and SiRF Technology, Inc.
The cash and stock transaction, currently valued at approximately $54 million , includes $15.4 million in cash and 1.28 million shares of Atheros common stock.
The boards of directors of both companies have approved the transaction, which is expected to close this month.
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During my routine check of the Wi-Fi Alliance 802.11n Certified product list, I found that the mythical D-Link DIR-855 Dual-Band Draft 11n router received its 802.11n Draft 2.0 certification back on October 3. Shame on me for not catching this before now.
Atheros today announced two single-chip 802.11n solutions and associated PCIe reference designs.
The new dual-band AR9280 and single-band AR9281 integrate the radio, baseband/MAC and host PCIe interface into single chip 10mm x 10mm QFN packages. Reference designs for both devices are available for both PCIe half-Mini Card and full-Mini Card form factors.
Atheros today announced that it is sampling a low-cost six port 10/100
Ethernet switch chip to key customers.
The company said the AR8216 will allow it to provide networking customers
with "all of the major silicon required for complete wire-to-wireless router
solutions". Atheros chose to produce a 10/100 switch instead of a gigabit
Ethernet version because it believes that is where the volume will be in the near
term.
Atheros today announced what it claims is the most "highly-integrated, cost-effective 802.11g solution" for home gateways. The AR2417 is the newest member of the company's seventh-generation AR5007 family and is a low cost, single-chip solution for mini-PCI and cardbus based designs. The device is currently in volume production.
Atheros Communications today announced its first Bluetooth product.
The AR3011 is a Bluetooth 2.1 + Enhanced Data Rate (EDR) solution specifically
targeted for PC applications and the first member of Atheros' ROCm (Radio-on-Chip
for Mobile) family of Bluetooth solutions.
The AR3011 is a single-chip solution that supports WLAN co-existence and simultaneous
usage of multiple Bluetooth-based devices. Atheros will offer the device in combination
with the company's wireless LAN products to the PC OEM market to drive adoption
of Bluetooth technology in laptops and desktops.
(SANTA CLARA, CA) Atheros today launched its "highest performance
802.11n solution to date". The AR5008AP-3NX2 chipset, combines Atheros
XSPAN draft 802.11n technology with a newWireless Network Processor Unit (WNPU).
The chipset supports concurrent 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz WLAN and is said to deliver
"up to 600 Mbps aggregate physical data rates"
Atheros Communications today announced that it has completed the acquisition of Attansic Technology Company , a privately held Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company specializing in Fast and Gigabit Ethernet integrated circuit solutions for PC, access point (AP) and router applications.
Atheros announced on Oct. 23, 2006, that it signed a definitive agreement to purchase Attansic, noting that the acquisition enables Atheros to provide a "complete suite" of wireless and wired LAN technologies to its networking and PC OEM customers. Attansic previously was a majority-owned subsidiary of ASUSTek Computer Inc.
Attansic engineering personnel will reside in Shanghai and Atheros' Taiwan Research & Development Center located in Hsinchu Science Park.
Atheros Communications today announced the Atheros AR5007EG - a 802.11g PCI Express (PCIe) device that includes both low noise amplifier (LNA) and power amplifier (PA), in a low-cost, single-chip digital CMOS design.
The device is targeted at lowering the cost of adding 802.11b/g wireless connectivity to both notebook and desktop PCs. Its advantages include a 50 percent reduction in the printed circuit board cost and 25 percent reduction in rest of bill-of-materials (RBOM) component count over previous generation board designs.
Atheros Communications Monday announced that Lenovo has introduced several new "enterprise- class" notebooks featuring Atheros' XSPAN draft 1.0 802.11n wireless LAN (WLAN) technology.
Atheros Communications today announced that its wireless LAN software has been selected to provide 802.11 connectivity for the Microsoft Windows Embedded CE 6.0 operating system.
Atheros' wireless software for its Radio-on-Chip for Mobile solutions has passed Microsoft testing and has received Wi-Fi Alliance certification for 802.11 devices.
Atheros' ROCm family products that support Windows Embedded CE 6.0 include the AR6001GL single-chip 802.11b/g and AR6001XL single-chip 802.11a/b/g WLAN solutions.
Longer range and faster speed are the watchwords for wireless LAN product manufacturers and the criteria by which many of us choose which products to buy. We take a look at three "extended range" WLAN technologies - Atheros' Super G / XR, Airgo Networks' True MIMO and Parker Vision's D2D - to see if they deliver as promised.
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