Qualcomm Atheros
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thumb|Other logo of Atheros Atheros Communications, Inc. was an American computer networking company independently active from 1998 to 2011. It produced semiconductor chips for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. The company was founded under the name T-Span Systems in 1998 by experts in signal processing and VLSI design from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and private industry. The company was renamed Atheros Communications in 2000 and it completed an initial public offering in February 2004, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol ATHR.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Atheros Communications, Inc.
- Company.former_name
- T-Span Systems, Inc. (1998–2000)
- Company.logo
- Atheros.svg
- Company.logo_upright
- 0.75
- Company.image
- Qualcomm Atheros San Jose, CA.JPG
- Company.image_caption
- Original headquarters in San Jose, California, under ownership of Qualcomm
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.fate
- Acquired by Qualcomm
- Company.founder
- Teresa H. Meng, John L. Hennessy
- Company.products
- Ethernet, WLAN, Bluetooth, GPS, powerline communications, hybrid wired/wireless, location
- Company.successor
- Qualcomm Atheros
- Company.location
- San Jose, California, U.S.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- business
- Headquarters
- San Jose
- Owned by
- Qualcomm
- Parent organization
- Qualcomm
- Employees
- 1302
- Legal form
- subsidiary company
- Official website
- www.qualcomm.com
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- Commons category
- Qualcomm Atheros
- inception
- 1998-05-01
- MAC Address Block Large ID
- 001374
- member of
- Wi-Fi Alliance
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Encyclopedic overview
8 sectionsContents
- History
- IPO
- Acquisition by Qualcomm
- Products
- Acquisitions
- Free and open-source software support
- References
- External links
thumb|Other logo of Atheros Atheros Communications, Inc. was an American computer networking company independently active from 1998 to 2011. It produced semiconductor chips for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets. The company was founded under the name T-Span Systems in 1998 by experts in signal processing and VLSI design from Stanford University, the University of California, Berkeley, and private industry. The company was renamed Atheros Communications in 2000 and it completed an initial public offering in February 2004, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol ATHR.
On January 5, 2011, it was announced that Qualcomm had agreed to a takeover of the company for a valuation of US$3.7 billion. When the acquisition was completed on May 24, 2011, Atheros became a subsidiary of Qualcomm operating under the name Qualcomm Atheros.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qualcomm Atheros” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.