Atheros Reaches 100 Million Chip Landmark

Written by Adam Gosling

Tuesday, 27 February 2007

Atheros Communications has announced it reached 100 million wireless LAN (WLAN) chipsets sold to data after what the company called "an extraordinary year" in 2006. The company posted a 64 percent revenue growth to US$301.7 million, putting together the seventh consecutive growth quarter. At only eight-years old the pace of growth is phenomenal. Atheros shipped more than 40 percent of the 100 million cumulative WLAN chipsets during the last year. It says that its single-chip 802.11g and 802.11a/g solutions were the foundation of its 2006 success. 50 percent of its sales came from the a/g/b products but the importance of future standards was evidenced by the 20 percent contributed bypre-standards 802.11n gear in the form of The company says its customers are shipping a wide variety of Atheros-based draft 802.11n products with more than 50 SKUs in the market today. With the recent stabilization of the 2.0 draft and the advent of end-product certification by the Wi-Fi Alliance to begin mid-year, Atheros anticipates the adoption of 802.11n products will continue to grow. Last year Atheros also points to another key advance, the company began shipping its Radio-on-Chip for Mobile embedded solutions for building dual mode cellular handsets and low-cost VoIP phones, even mobile gaming devices, cameras, camcorders, music players andPDAs. The increased adoption of WLAN in the carrier and gateway market helped push the company's single-chip 802.11g solutions into five of the top broadband gateway brands worldwide - a trend the company expects to continue with 802.11n products. "The 100-million chipset milestone signifies our employees' continued commitment to making Atheros the leading provider of the industry's highest performance wireless communications products," said Craig Barratt, president and chief executive officer of Atheros. "While Atheros' success to date has come from its wireless LAN expertise, the company is extending its technical leadership into the Bluetooth and Ethernet markets to meet the growing needs of our world-class customer base." www.atheros.com Related news items Tiny Rugged UMPC WIth Vista -10/10/2007 Consumers Want FMC: Companies Don't See The Benefit -02/10/2007 Nokia Buys Map Company For US$8 Billion -02/10/2007 Seven In Unwired Takeover Bid -26/09/2007 Ultra-Mobile Sales Ready To Rocket -16/09/2007 Newer news items Wi-Fi Alliance Begins Draft-N Certification -25/06/2007 D-Link Routers To Make Sharing Easy -24/04/2007 Easy VoIP System For Mobile Makers -16/03/2007 Draft N Inches Forward -14/03/2007 Agere Sells Wireless Patents -02/03/2007 Older news items Linksys Releases Draft-N For SMBs -30/01/2007 Symbol Builds A Bridge Between RFID and WLAN -07/12/2006 Qualcomm Acquires Airgo -04/12/2006 WLAN Win For CSIRO -15/11/2006 Lenovo To Put Draft-802.11n In Notebooks -08/11/2006 Tag This Now: