Atheros Announces Willy Shih as New Board Member

SANTA CLARA, Calif., Nov. 27, 2006 — Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATHR), a leading developer of advanced wireless solutions, today announced that Willy Shih has joined the Atheros board of directors. Dr. Shih has more than 25 years of marketing and engineering experience in the consumer electronics, computing and digital imaging, and display markets. In January 2007 Dr. Shih will join the Harvard Business School as a member of the faculty.

Until recently, Dr. Shih served as executive vice president and co-head of the Technology Division for Thomson, a leading provider of digital video technologies. With the Eastman Kodak Company, Dr. Shih served as senior vice president and president, Display & Components Group, senior vice president and president, Digital & Applied Imaging, and head of its corporate intellectual property strategy office. During his tenure at Kodak, he guided the company to leadership positions in the consumer digital camera, inkjet photo paper and online photofinishing markets, growing revenue in these segments to over $1.2B. Before joining Kodak, Dr. Shih served as vice president of marketing, Technical Computing for Silicon Graphics, a leading provider of high-performance server and storage solutions. He also held the dual roles of vice president of Windows NT and UNIX Marketing and vice president of Workstation Engineering for Digital Equipment Corporation. Before joining Digital, he spent more than 10 years in a variety of senior management roles at IBM Corporation.

“Willy Shih will make a strong addition to our board of directors,” said Craig Barratt, president and chief executive officer of Atheros. “He possesses a rare mix of business acumen combined with engineering expertise and has a proven ability for helping companies with strong core competencies successfully expand into new markets.”

Shih holds a doctorate degree in Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley, and Bachelor of Science degrees in Chemistry and Life Sciences from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

About Atheros Communications, Inc.

Atheros Communications is a leading developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless communications products. Atheros combines its wireless systems expertise with high-performance radio frequency (RF), mixed signal and digital semiconductor design skills to provide highly integrated chipsets that are manufacturable on low-cost, standard complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) processes. Atheros technology is being used by a broad base of leading customers, including personal computer, networking equipment and handset manufacturers. For more information, visit www.atheros.com or send email to info@atheros.com.

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