Atheros' Wi-Fi Helps Unleash a Wave of Award-Winning Products at CES 2008
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Eye-Fi's Wireless Memory Card Featuring Atheros ROCm Technology Wins the Yahoo! Tech 'Last Gadget Standing' Competition
SANTA CLARA, Jan. 16 -- Atheros Communications, Inc. (NASDAQ:ATHR), a leading developer of advanced wireless and wired solutions, today announced its WLAN technologies were featured in several of the prominent, award-winning solutions at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show. Eye-Fi's innovative wireless SD memory card for digital cameras, which uses Atheros' Wi-Fi, was named the winner of Yahoo! Tech's "Last Gadget Standing" competition -- judged by consumers as the gadget with the best chance to be a life-changing force in the real world.
The Eye-Fi card features Atheros' ROCm(TM) mobile WLAN technology to enable the easy, wireless transfer and sharing of photos taken with any digital camera having an SD slot. In addition, two other Atheros-based products were among the Top 10 finalists of Yahoo! Tech's "Last Gadget Standing" award; ASUS was recognized for its low-cost Eee PC 4G notebook featuring Atheros' 802.11g PCIe solution, and Fujitsu for its LifeBook U810 Mini-Notebook which uses Atheros Super AG® technology.
A variety of Atheros customer products targeting the computing, gaming, and home networking markets received industry awards from the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). Following are the CEA INNOVATIONS 2008 Award honorees which employ Atheros Wi-Fi solutions, including the company's XSPAN(TM) technology, the most widely deployed 802.11n technology worldwide, and its industry-leading 802.11n dual-band 5GHz/2.4GHz technology.
Computer Hardware
o ASUS Eee PC Notebook
Digital Imaging
o D-Link DSM-210 Wi-Fi Picture Frame
Electronic Gaming
o D-Link DGL-4500 Xtreme N Gaming Router
Home Networking
o Belkin N1 Vision Wireless Router
o Netgear HD/Gaming 5GHz Wireless-N Networking Kit
o Westell Technologies UltraLine Series3 Residential Gateway and Digital
Home Coordinator
Personal Electronics
o ASUS Internet Radio
"Wireless connectivity, particularly 802.11n and mobile WLAN, was a compelling theme at the show," said Todd Antes, vice president of marketing at Atheros. "Atheros is honored to help its customers deliver the best wireless user experience in award-winning products acknowledged for their innovation and real-world benefits."
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.
Source: Atheros Communications, Inc.
CONTACT: Dakota Lee of Atheros Communications, Inc.,
+1-408-720-5597, dakota@atheros.com; or Greg Wood of A&R Edelman,
+1-650-762-2838, gwood@ar-edelman.com; or IR, Deborah Stapleton of
Stapleton
Communications, +1-650-470-0200, deb@stapleton.com, both for Atheros Communications, Inc.
Web site: www.atheros.com/
