Agere Systems
| Industry | Semiconductor-integrated circuits |
|---|---|
| Founded | Spun off from Lucent Technologies on June 1, 2002 |
| Defunct | April 2, 2007 |
| Fate | Merged into LSI Corporation |
| Successor | LSI Corporation, Avago Technologies, and Intel Corp |
| Headquarters | Allentown, Pennsylvania, U.S. |
Key people | Richard L. Clemmer, President and CEO |
| Products | Integrated circuits |
Number of employees | ~17,000 |
| Website | agere.com at the Wayback Machine (archived 2006-02-09) |
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. LSI was in turn acquired by Avago Technologies in 2014. In early 2016, Avago acquired the former Broadcom Corporation, and took on the name Broadcom Inc.