Everything about Agere totally explained
Agere Systems Inc. was an
integrated circuit components company based in
Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the
Lehigh Valley region of
Pennsylvania, in the
United States. Effective
April 2,
2007, it was merged into
LSI Corporation.
Agere was incorporated on
August 1,
2000 as a subsidiary of
Lucent Technologies and then
spun-off on
June 1,
2002. The name
Agere was that of a Texas-based electronics company that Lucent had acquired in
2000, although the pronunciations of the company names are different. The Texas company was pronounced with three syllables and a hard "g": A-gear-uh. The company name was pronounced with two syllables and a hard "g": A-gear.
The company also maintained an
India office in
Whitefield, India, located in the city of
Bangalore, which is involved in
ASIC design and software development.
The company also maintained an
Israel office located in
Raanana. This office was based on Modem-Art a developer of advanced processor technology for
3G/
UMTS mobile devices which Agere has acquired in
2005.
The
China offices of Agere were located at
Shanghai and
Shenzhen.
Merger With LSI Logic Corporation
On
December 4,
2006,
LSI announced that it would acquire Agere by merger in a stock transaction valued at $4 billion.
LSI announcement
EETimes story.
On
March 29,
2007,
LSI announced that the
shareholder approval has been obtained and that the merger was proceeding.
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On
April 2,
2007,
LSI announced that the merger has been completed.
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Microsoft sued for alleged theft of IP
Microsoft was sued by Agere for theft of key technology used in Internet telephony.
(External Link) (External Link) (External Link) The allegations concern meetings between Agere and Microsoft in 2002 and 2003, where the companies discussed selling Agere's
stereophonic acoustic echo cancellation technology to Microsoft. This technology is used to improve the sound of
telephone and
teleconference communications over the Internet (ie, VOIP). Just before the agreement was to be signed, Microsoft ended the discussions saying that it made a significant breakthrough in its own, heretofore undisclosed research program, and no longer needed Agere's technology.
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