AmberWave Systems Enters Exclusive Licensing Agreement With Agere Systems for Strained Silicon Technology.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SALEM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 10, 2003 AmberWave Systems, the semiconductor industry's leading supplier of strained silicon A technique that deposits silicon (Si) on top of silicon germanium (SiGe) for making transistors on a chip. In so doing, the silicon atoms are stretched ("strained") to line up with the silicon germanium atoms, which are wider apart. technology, today announced that it has secured exclusive rights to sublicense nine key strained silicon patents from Agere Systems Agere Systems Inc. was an integrated circuit components company based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of Pennsylvania, in the United States. Effective April 2, 2007, it was merged into LSI Corporation. . Under the terms of the agreement with Agere, AmberWave has secured exclusive rights to sublicense a key patent relating to relating to relate prep → concernant relating to relate prep → bezüglich +gen, mit Bezug auf +acc graded buffer technology. U.S. Patent No. 5,221,413, Brasen et al., entitled, "Method for Making Low Defect Density (programming) defect density - The ratio of the number of defects to program length. Semiconductor Hetrostructure and Devices Made Thereby", covers the best-known methods to manufacture silicon-germanium graded buffer layers, which are essential to limiting defects in strained silicon. Used in combination with its other wafer technology, AmberWave now offers the industry's most advanced technology for the fabrication fabrication (fab´rikā´sh  n),n the construction or making of a restoration. of strained silicon wafers. "AmberWave is delivering on its promise to offer semiconductor manufacturers the easiest and fastest way to implement strained silicon," said Richie Faubert, president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , AmberWave Systems. "By combining patents from Agere with patents licensed from MIT MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology and our own intellectual property, AmberWave offers the industry a true end-to-end technology solution for strained silicon wafer manufacture." "Agere's patents embody the most fundamental techniques for producing silicon-germanium graded buffer layers, the essential step in straining the lattice to make strained silicon," said Gene Fitzgerald Gene FitzGerald (Irish: Eoghan Mac Gearailt; born August, 1932) is a former Irish politician. He was a Teachta Dála (TD) and a Member of the European Parliament for the Fianna Fáil party. , chairman and co-founder, AmberWave Systems. "This research, conducted at AT&T Bell Labs in the very early days of strained silicon development, has become a technique that is well understood and considered quite essential to the production of high-quality, low-cost strained silicon." In addition to the '413 patent, AmberWave obtained exclusive rights to sublicense U.S. Patent No. 5,158,907, US. Patent No. 5,285,086, U.S. Patent No. 5,308,444, US. Patent No. 5,442,205, Japan Patent No. 2813080, Japan Patent No. 2792785, and Great Britain Great Britain, officially United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, constitutional monarchy (2005 est. pop. 60,441,000), 94,226 sq mi (244,044 sq km), on the British Isles, off W Europe. The country is often referred to simply as Britain. Patent No. 0469790. The licensing agreement with Agere brings AmberWave's patent licensing portfolio to a total of 26 issued and 101 additional pending. AmberWave's agreement with Agere affords AmberWave exclusive rights to sublicense for the duration of the patents. About Strained Silicon Strained silicon is an advanced semiconductor substrate that increases the mobility of electrons and holes in semiconductor devices by "stretching" the silicon lattice. Building devices on the strained silicon platform enables device manufacturers to increase the speed or decrease the power consumption of their state-of-the-art chips, and further leverage their investment in their existing silicon and CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. processes. AmberWave and its customers have demonstrated strained silicon transistor enhancement down to 25nm physical gate lengths. At the 130nm process node, strained silicon has already shown the ability to increase circuit speed by 17% or decrease power consumption by 34% over standard bulk silicon circuits. About AmberWave Systems AmberWave Systems is the semiconductor industry's leading supplier of strained silicon technology, leveraging more than 11 years of advanced research and development. By offering unmatched support to wafer and device manufacturers, AmberWave provides the industry with the fastest, easiest path to the speed and power performance enhancements of strained silicon. AmberWave's headquarters and state-of-the-art research and development facility are located in Salem, N.H. with sales agents in Japan and Europe; more information about AmberWave is available on the Web at www.amberwave.com. About Agere Systems Agere Systems is a premier provider of advanced integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for solutions for wireless data, high-density storage and multi-service networking applications. Agere's wireless data portfolio enables seamless network access and Internet connectivity through industry-leading WiFi/802.11 solutions for wireless LANs and computing applications, as well as its GPRS (General Packet Radio Service) The first high-speed digital data service provided by cellular carriers that used the GSM technology. GPRS added a packet-switched channel to GSM, which uses dedicated, circuit-switched channels for voice conversations. offering for data-capable cellular phones. The company also provides custom and standard multi-service networking solutions, such as broadband Ethernet-over-SONET/SDH components and wireless infrastructure chips, to move information across metro, access and enterprise networks. Agere is the market leader in providing integrated circuits such as read-channel chips, preamplifiers and system-on-a-chip solutions for high-density storage applications. Agere's customers include the leading PC manufacturers, wireless terminal providers, network equipment suppliers and hard-disk drive providers. More information about Agere Systems is available from its Web site at www.agere.com. Agere is a registered trademark and Agere Systems and the Agere Systems Logo are trademarks of Agere Systems Inc. |
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