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• Atheros certain to become top provider for WLAN solutions in 2006
  Thursday 16 February 2006 – 04:16
  Atheros Communications is likely to become the world's top maker of WLAN chips in 2006 since the company is leading rivals in introducing wireless LAN solutions compliant with the draft 802.11n specification, company president and CEO Craig Barratt said recently.
• Atheros to acquire Asustek subsidiary Attansic
  Tuesday 24 October 2006 – 04:43
  Atheros Communications has announced that it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Attansic Technology Company, a privately held Taiwan-based fabless semiconductor company specializing in Fast and Gigabit Ethernet IC solutions for PC, access point (AP) and router applications.
• Atheros joins draft 11n chip club
  Monday 23 January 2006 – 04:23
  Atheros Communications today officially launched its draft 802.11n product line.
• HP to ship Atheros-based tri-mode notebook
  Saturday 1 February 2003 – 04:58
  Atheros today announced that HP will be using their AR5001X chipset in a line of enterprise notebooks that will ship later this year.
• Atheros releases "cost optimized" draft 11n chipset and network processor line
  Monday 28 August 2006 – 03:55
  Atheros today announced the launch of a cost-optimized draft 802.11n chipset featuring a 2x2 MIMO design. It also introduced a line of network processors.

• Atheros Super-G NeedToKnow - Part 2*
  Sunday 7 December 2003 – 08:09
  In Part 1 of this NTK, I described the elements of Super-G and took a detailed look at normal 11g and Super-G channel overlap. I also presented test results pitting Super-G against "normal" 11g wireless LANs and "normal" 11g WLANs against each other.
• Atheros Super-G NeedToKnow - Part 1*
  Sunday 30 November 2003 – 05:53
  As I described in my Comdex coverage, the short story is that Broadcom is asserting that Atheros' Super-G based products will interfere with neighboring 802.11b and g networks, severely limiting their speed and, in some cases, shutting them down completely.