Qualcomm Atheros
| Qualcomm Atheros
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| legal form | Subsidiary of Qualcomm |
| founding | May 1998 |
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San Jose , United States
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| management | Teresa H. Meng (founder and board member) |
| Branch | semiconductor |
| Website | www.qualcomm.com/ |
| As of March 30, 2015 | |
Qualcomm Atheros (formerly just Atheros ) is a subsidiary of Qualcomm and develops chipsets for radio applications such as WLAN , Bluetooth , PLC , VHF radio and GPS , as well as combination chips. Chips for Ethernet and fiber optics are also in the range.
The company was founded in 1998 by Teresa H. Meng, a Stanford University professor , along with Chik Patrick Yue and John LeRoy Hennessy . In 2004 Atheros went public. In May 2011, Qualcomm acquired the company for $ 3.1 billion.
Open source software support
Atheros did not previously publish documentation for its chips, which made it difficult to develop drivers for them. As a result, the driver support under Linux was poor. By reverse engineering the FreeBSD binary drivers , the MadWifi driver was developed, which resulted in ath5k , which was eventually incorporated into the Linux kernel .
In July 2008, Atheros changed its policy and hired two developers to develop the open driver ath9k for Linux. In 2013, the firmware of two WLAN chipsets was also released.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ A Conversation with Teresa Meng , April 16, 2004
- ^ Qualcomm Completes $ 3.1 Billion Acquisition of Atheros Communications. Qualcomm.com, May 24, 2011, accessed March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Kernel log: Ath9k driver for new Atheros WLAN chips. heise online , July 21, 2008, accessed on March 30, 2015 .
- ↑ Atheros Publishes open source WiFi firmware. Phoronix , March 12, 2013, accessed April 2, 2015 .