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Atheros Communications Inc. (ATHR)At 12:10PM ET: 29.97  Up 0.18 (0.60%)  
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Atheros Communications Inc.
5480 Great America Parkway
Santa Clara, CA 95054-3644
United States - Map
Phone: 408-773-5200
Fax: 408-738-8349
Web Site: http://www.atheros.com

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Index Membership:N/A
Sector:Technology
Industry:Semiconductor - Integrated Circuits
Full Time Employees:1,079

BUSINESS SUMMARY 
Atheros Communications, Inc. develops semiconductor system solutions for communication integrated circuit products. Its products comprise wireless local area network, mobile WLAN, Ethernet, bluetooth, global positioning system, and personal access systems. The company offers reference designs that can be used to design various systems, including networking cards and routers, broadband gateways, mobile devices, and handsets. It also provides a portfolio of single and multi-chip WLAN products, including wireless networking products for the home and small office markets; and wireless infrastructure systems-on-chip with network management capabilities for the enterprise market. The company’s wireless system solutions are used in various applications in the personal computers, enterprise access, broadband gateway, SOHO networking, consumer electronics, and mobile communications markets. Its personal access systems solutions consist of a single chip that implements a cellular transceiver, baseband, application processor, audio paths, power management, keyboard, speaker, and display interfaces. The company’s fast and gigabit Ethernet products comprise access points, routers, gateways, Ethernet physical layer, transceivers, and switches for personal computer customers into local area network-on-motherboard applications. Atheros Communications sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and original design manufacturers through direct sales staff, independent sales representatives, and distributors primarily in Taiwan, the People’s Republic of China, Hong Kong, and the United States. It has a collaboration agreement with Cavium Networks Inc. to offer an integrated platform that enables wireless HD 1080p60 video transmission to flat panel displays. The company was formerly known as T-Span Systems Corporation and changed its name to Atheros Communications, Inc. in May 2000. Atheros Communications was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
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    CORPORATE GOVERNANCE 
    Atheros Communications Inc.'s Corporate Governance Quotient (CGQ®) as of 1-Dec-09 is better than 24.2% of Russell 3000 companies and 17% of Semiconductors & Semiconductor Equipment companies.
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    KEY EXECUTIVES 
     PayExercised
    Dr. John L. Hennessy Ph.D., 55
    Co-Founder, Chairman, Member of Compensation Committee and Member of Nominating & Corp. Governance Committee
    $ 32.00KN/A
    Dr. Craig H. Barratt , 47
    Chief Exec. Officer, Pres, Exec. Director and Member of Non-Exec. Stock Option Committee
    $ 512.00K $ 1.13M
    Dr. Teresa H. Meng , 48
    Co-Founder
    $ 25.00KN/A
    Mr. Jack R. Lazar , 43
    Chief Financial Officer, VP of Corp. Devel. and Sec.
    $ 391.00K $ 634.00K
    Mr. Adam Tachner , 43
    VP, Gen. Counsel and Assistant Sec.
    $ 334.00K $ 476.00K
    Dollar amounts are as of 31-Dec-08 and compensation values are for the last fiscal year ending on that date. "Pay" is salary, bonuses, etc. "Exercised" is the value of options exercised during the fiscal year.
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