Agere Systems and NewLogic Ink Bluetooth Deal

Electronic News, August 27, 2001

AGERE SYSTEMS INC. LAST WEEK SAID IT HAD LICENSED NEWLogic Technologies AG's signal-processing intellectual property (IP) for Bluetooth wireless transceivers. Allentown, Pa.-based Agere's intention is to embed NewLogic's Boost IP core into Bluetooth baseband processors to create systemlevel IC products for the mobile phone market.

Agere (nyse: AGR.A) wants to make possible the implementation of a single-chip Bluetooth design using standard CMOS process technologies. Officials at NewLogic of Lustenau, Austria, believe Agere's systems and radio expertise, combined with company's own baseband knowledge, will pave the way for low-cost, high-performance chips and chipsets. Agere is licensing NewLogic's Boost core and software. The IP includes a Bluetooth baseband processor, a full Bluetooth software protocol stack and a Bluetooth CMOS radio. Agere said it expects to introduce products incorporating the IP in the first quarter of 2002.