Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania. Spun out of Lucent Technologies in 2002, Agere was merged into LSI Corporation in 2007.[1][2][3][4]
Agere was incorporated on August 1, 2000 as a subsidiary of Lucent Technologies and then spun off on June 1, 2002. The name Agere was that of a Texas-based electronics company that Lucent had acquired in 2000, although the pronunciations of the company names are different. The Texas company was pronounced with three syllables and a hard "g": A-gear-uh. The company name was pronounced with two syllables and a hard "g": A-gear.
Apart from the main office in Allentown, the company maintained also offices in:
- Reading, Pennsylvania: The "Reading Works" facility, formerly Lucent/AT&T and Bell Labs. Closed in 2002.
- Dallas, Texas: Agere Optoelectronics South (OES), formerly Hermann Technologies. Acquired 2000, closed 2002.
- Whitefield, India: located in the city of Bangalore, which is involved in ASIC design and software development.
- Raanana, Israel: This office was based on Modem-Art, a developer of advanced processor technology for 3G/UMTS mobile devices, which Agere has acquired in 2005.
- China: Shanghai and Shenzhen.
- Nieuwegein, Netherlands: This former NCR / AT&T / Lucent Technologies division known under the name WCND (Wireless Communication Network Division) was active in the development of Wi-Fi-technology and closed December 2004.
