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Atheros
ROCm Technology Teams with Texas Instruments to Enable
Wi-Fi in Mobile, High-Quality Video Products
New, Low-Cost
DaVinci Processor Features Market-Leading Atheros WLAN
Performance in Turnkey Designs
SANTA CLARA, Calif.,
Sept. 4, 2007
— Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR),
a leading developer of advanced wireless solutions,
today announced that its single-chip AR6001GL and
AR6001XL Radio-on-Chip for Mobile (ROCm®) WLAN designs
have been selected by Texas Instruments Incorporated
(TI) to support wireless connectivity with its new
TMS320DM355 processor based on DaVinci™ technology. The
resulting combination is an extremely low-cost,
low-power, high-performance platform that delivers
quality video wirelessly for Portable Media Players (PMPs),
IP security cameras and other portable digital video
products. Given TI’s
rigorous platform testing and pre-qualification,
original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) and developers
are assured that the performance of Atheros’ ROCm Wi-Fi®
solutions combined with the DM355 processor meet the
demanding requirements of portable digital video
products.
Atheros’ 802.11g and 802.11a/g solutions provide fast
roaming capabilities that allow a device to stay
connected to the best available WLAN with high
performance throughput and reliability. The ROCm
solutions provide a rich set of features which support
voice and video through polled QoS extensions (802.11e
and WMM). The result is secure, uninterrupted
transmission of latency-sensitive applications such as
music downloads and video delivery. The highly compact
AR6001 enables design flexibility to meet growing
consumer demand for sleek, lightweight mobile devices.
In addition to high performance Wi-Fi connectivity,
Atheros’ ROCm family delivers exceptional, low power
overhead operation on the device’s host processor. To
achieve power savings, the chips use advanced techniques
including Automatic Power Save Delivery (APSD) and
Atheros’ proprietary low-power sleep mode resulting in
substantially extended battery life.
“Wi-Fi connectivity in portable video devices is fast
becoming the standard with our DaVinci technology
developers who want to enable media downloads and
high-quality video streams wirelessly,” said John Dixon,
DaVinci Technology Marketing Manager for Texas
Instruments. “Atheros’ ROCm solutions offered through
module partners deliver the right mix of price,
performance and power to complement the features of the
DM355 processor. The resulting platform is an
easy-to-use, turnkey solution which allows our customers
to quickly bring to market the industry’s most advanced
wireless-enabled video products.”
The DaVinci processor with ARM host control and complete
development tool kit helps manufacturers to quickly and
easily develop low-cost portable, digital devices with
HD video capability. Additionally, the DM355 device
consists of an integrated video processing subsystem, an
MPEG-4-JPEG co-processor (MJCP), an ARM926EJ-S core and
peripherals.
“Atheros ROCm solutions are ideal for DaVinci customers
who want to easily enable high-performance Wi-Fi without
incremental investment in development and time,” said
Sam Endy, vice president and general manager, mobile
wireless for Atheros. “We’re pleased that Atheros’
mobile technology has been selected to provide wireless
connectivity to DaVinci processors to enhance the
delivery of multimedia everywhere.”
All members of the ROCm family are full-speed,
hardware-based, security compliant with the WPA™, WPA2™
and 802.11i standards and Atheros’ industry standardized
simple network configuration software – JumpStart for
Wireless™. The solutions also come with full driver
support for Windows CE 6.0 and Linux-based designs.
For more information about Atheros’
AR6001 ROCm family of chipsets see
http://www.atheros.com/pt/wlan_mobile.htm.
For more information about the DM355 processor see
http://www.ti.com/dm355pr.
About Atheros Communications, Inc.
Atheros Communications is a leading developer of
semiconductor system solutions for wireless and other
network 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, ROCm and JumpStart for
Wireless are trademarks of Atheros Communications, Inc.
DaVinci technology is a trademark of Texas Instruments.
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
statements regarding the features, benefits and
performance of Atheros’ ROCm technology; 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, the risks
detailed in Atheros' Annual Report on Form 10-K for the
year ended December 31, 2006 and its Quarterly Report on
Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2007, 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,
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