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Atheros Communications, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif., is a developer of semiconductor system solutions for wireless communications products. It provides single- and dual-band solutions, integrated single-chips, and AR5004, AR5005, AR5006, AR5007 and AR5008 series wireless local area network chipsets for the retail, personal computer original equipment manufacturer, consumer electronics, enterprise and carrier markets. Atheros combines its wireless systems expertise with high-performance radio frequency, mixed signal and digital semiconductor design skills to provide integrated chipsets. Its customers include Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Dell, Sony, Toshiba, D-Link, Belkin, IO-Data, Linksys, Microsoft, Philips, Proxim and QUALCOMM. Atheros Communications was founded in 1998 by leading experts in radio and signal processing from Stanford University, the University of California at Berkeley, and private industry.