SUNNYVALE, Calif., May 15, 2001--The AR5000 chipset from Atheros Communications was awarded first place in the wireless hardware category
of PC Magazine's "Innovation in Infrastructure" competition. The announcement was made in Las Vegas on May 8 at the NetWorld+Interop Conference.
The magazine's editors chose 10 winners out of a field of 28 finalists that "exemplify the best and most advanced of today's
network infrastructure technologies and provide a window into the future of this critical area of computing." The announcement will
be posted on www.pcmag.com.
Incorporating a complete "radio-on-a-chip" (RoC), the Atheros AR5000 is the world's first two-chip, all-CMOS, end-to-end solution for
IEEE 802.11a 5-GHz wireless LANs. This groundbreaking technology opens the door to vast new possibilities, as high-speed wireless data
becomes widely available in offices, homes, schools, and in public places such as airports, hotels and coffee shops.
The Atheros AR5000 chipset is compliant with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11a, 5-GHz wireless LAN
standard. It operates at speeds up to 54 Mbps, five times faster than the currently shipping IEEE 802.11b 2.4-GHz products. In addition,
the AR5000 solution offers speeds up to 72 Mbps in Atheros' "Turbo" mode.
"This award reflects the importance of freeing data from the wires that connect one device to another," said Rich Redelfs, president
and chief executive officer of Atheros. "Wireless is in everyone's future, and we are honored that PC Magazine chose our chipset as the
best innovation for driving this wireless future."
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Atheros Communications was founded in May 1998 by leading experts in radio and signal processing from Stanford University,
the University of California at Berkeley, and private industry. The Company's mission is to provide wireless networking
technologies that drive transparent connections between all computing, communications, audio and video devices. Funded by August Capital,
Fidelity Management & Research Company, Foundation Capital, New Enterprise Associates and others, Atheros has raised a total of $98.3 million
in three rounds of funding. The Company currently employs over 120 people and has filed more than 40 wireless technology patents.
Thomas Mahon, 925.937.4921, tmahon@ncal.verio.com
or Greg Wood, A&R Partners, 650.762.2838, gwood@arpartners.com.
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