Agere Systems Establishes Asia/Pacific Development and Support Centre in Taiwan

TAIPEI, Taiwan /Wi-Fi Technology News/- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, AGR.B) has established an Asia/Pacific Development and Support Centre in Taipei, Taiwan, to strengthen its design and technical cooperation with Asia/Pacific customers. The centre, which officially opened today, will initially focus on 802.11b and 802.11a/b/g multimode Wi-Fi? solutions, and later expand to such areas as VoIP, VoWLAN, printing and imaging, modem and Gigabit Ethernet, in line with growth opportunities in the Asia/Pacific region.

The support centre will provide hardware design, debug and performance measurement as well as software support for product applications designed with Agere chip sets. The team in Taipei will also be working closely with other Agere design centres in the Netherlands and the United States to customize products according to the needs of customers throughout Asia, including China.

The company hopes to further strengthen its relationships with Taiwan-based contract manufacturers as the rapid development of telecom, computer and consumer electronics products continues.

"The highly talented technical community in Taiwan has provided a solid extension of our support to customers in Asia/Pacific," said Ron Black, the Agere executive vice president who officiated at today's opening of the centre. "With our new Development and Support Centre here, we can offer customers rapid localization and quicker time to market due to the proximity to our customer base in Asia."

Today's news comes after Agere Systems recently announced the establishment of a design centre in Australia for next-generation wireless technology development. The Australian operation will enhance Agere's capabilities in delivering integrated chip set and software solutions for dual-mode 3G mobile phones, and complements Agere mobile terminal design operations in Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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.

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