“We’ve been impressed with Atheros’ design wins and rapid rise to prominence in an important new market. And their rapid introduction of a second-generation product line shows they intend to maintain this leadership.”

 “Atheros has been here once before, single-handedly changing the WLAN landscape with new technology much sooner than anyone was willing to predict. Now, before any other company has even shipped their first-generation 802.11a chipset, Atheros is announcing its second generation, once again taking the WLAN market by surprise.”

-         Allen Nogee, Senior Analyst, In-Stat/MDR

“We see the wireless LAN IC market growing to just shy of a billion dollars by 2006.  With its innovative solutions that cover both 802.11a and 802.11g standards, Atheros is strongly positioned to take advantage of this high growth and to be a key player in the wireless LAN IC market.”

-          Navin Sabharwal, Director of Residential and Networking Technologies, Allied Business Intelligence (ABI)

 “Given the difficulties and complexities associated with OFDM and CMOS, Atheros has a considerable lead on its competition.  Furthermore, they are the first to extend the performance and benefits of OFDM across 802.11a (5GHz) and 802.11g (2.4GHz) in their WLAN combo chipset.”

-         Aaron Vance, Industry Analyst, Synergy Research Group

 “There is tremendous interest in 802.11a wireless LAN technology.  However, customers also need products that interoperate with 802.11b networks.  Atheros was the first company to sample a dual-band (2.4GHz and 5GHz) wireless LAN chipset.”

 -         Joseph Byrne, Principal Analyst, Gartner Group

 
See what analysts had to say about Atheros last Spring [Spring 2001]