Agere Systems will stop subsidizing health care benefits for its 5,800 retirees in a two-step phase-out that will begin in 2008. Agere’s nonunion retirees will be the first to lose the company ...

Agere's single-chip solution enables increased data throughput by up to 50 percent for PCs, mobile devices and consumer electronics ALLENTOWN, Pa. - November 13, 2002 -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR.A, ...

802.11n proposal incorporates MIMO technology to offer best combination of high data rates, spectral efficiency and backward compatibility for wireless consumer and enterprise applications ALLENTOWN, ...

Agere Systems Inc. announced Friday that it has repaid $1 billion of the $2.5 billion debt it assumed from parent Lucent Technologies. Agere of Allentown also extended the due date on the remaining $1 ...

LSI Logic, a maker of storage and DVD chips, said it would buy semiconductor and software storage company Agere Systems for about $4 billion. The deal calls for the exchange of 2.16 shares of LSI for ...

Agere Systems has come out with a new chip that it said will make it easier and cheaper for carriers to deliver services like Internet telephony and video on demand. On Monday, Agere, a spinoff of ...

Agere Systems announced on Monday that Japanese giant NEC will use its radio frequency power transistors in third-generation wireless base stations. Agere, known as a supplier of chips used for cell ...

Monday - Friday, 6:00 - 9:00 AM ET CNBC's Bob Pisani gave his insight--here are more of the details. LSI Logicwill acquire Lucent spin-off Agere Systems for $4 billion in stock. The deal values Agere ...

DURHAM, NC--(Marketwired - March 09, 2015) - Patheon, a leading global provider of high-quality drug development and delivery solutions to the pharmaceutical and biopharma sectors, has reached a ...

NEW YORK - Communications equipment maker Agere Systems said today it would cut 4,000 jobs, or more than a third of its work force, and exit the optical components business. Along with restructuring ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. — Agere Systems today (Feb. 16) announced a leading-edge mobile handset architecture that enables phone manufacturers to more rapidly deliver a broad portfolio of products aimed at ...

Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in 2004, covering cellphone services, broadband, citywide Wi-Fi, the Net neutrality debate and the consolidation of the phone companies. Agere ...