ALLENTOWN, Pa., Jan. 26 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A - News, AGR.B - News) today announced it has delivered high-performance radio frequency (RF) power transistors to NEC for use in the company's third-generation (3G) wireless base station equipment. These devices enable NEC's base station amplifiers to remain cooler, thereby simplifying product design and improving its reliability. To ensure high reliability, Agere's transistors used by NEC in its Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (W-CDMA) wireless base stations have successfully passed NEC's rigorous evaluation and testing and Agere's own qualification process. The RF transistors use laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) technology, and are fully qualified and in volume production today.
"The use of Agere transistors in our base stations will accelerate our company's 3G wireless equipment deployment during the next few years," said Dr. Nobuhiro Endo, general manager of NEC's Mobile and Wireless Division. "Power efficiency is extremely important in a Wideband CDMA base station design, and Agere's transistors delivered the performance required. Agere's wealth of technical expertise, customer support and products that passed our rigorous reliability testing clinched our decision to go with their family of products."
"NEC is one of the world's prime wireless equipment companies, and Agere is excited to be providing some of our newest products to them," said Carlos Garcia, vice president and general manager with Agere Systems. "NEC's selection of our products validates Agere's ability to produce and deliver high-performance RF transistors to an industry leader in deployment of operational 3G base station equipment."
This selection also underscores the close relationship Agere and NEC have been developing for the past several years. For example, Agere provides its high-performance traffic manage ment and Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) chips to NEC for 3G CDMA base station equipment. Agere ranks second worldwide in sales of chips for wireless infrastructure applications*.
Agere also equips NEC with traffic management chips for use in NEC's high-speed router family, and General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) wireless data chips for NEC cellular phones.
Agere Systems is a premier provider of advanced integrated circuit solutions for wireless data, high-density storage and multiservice networking applications. Agere's wireless data portfolio enables seamless network access and Internet connectivity through its GPRS offering for data-capable cellular phones, as well as Wi-Fi/802.11 solutions for wireless LANs and computing applications. The company is the market leader in providing integrated circuits for the hard disk drive market, with number one positions in sales of system-on-a-chip solutions and preamplifiers. Agere also provides custom and standard multiservice networking solutions to move information across wired, wireless and enterprise networks. Agere's customers include the leading PC manufacturers, wireless terminal providers, network equipment suppliers and hard-disk drive providers. More information about Agere Systems is available from its web site at http://www.agere.com.
Agere is a registered trademark, and Agere Systems and the Agere Systems logo are trademarks of Agere Systems Inc.
This release contains forward-looking statements based on information available to Agere as of the date hereof. Agar's actual results could differ materially from the results stated or implied by such forward-looking statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, the impact of any global or regional health epidemic, such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, keeping pace with technological change, dependence on new product development, price and product competition, availability of manufacturing capacity, customer demand for our products and services, general industry and market conditions, limits on our ability to issue equity to raise capital and reliance on major customers and suppliers. For a further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2003. Agere disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
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