Jack Lazar, CFO 2003-2011 Rick Bahr, Head of Engineering 2000-2013 Bill McFarland, CTO 1999-2015 Qualcomm Atheros is a developer of semiconductor chips for network communications, particularly wireless chipsets.

The company was renamed Atheros Communications in 2000 and it completed an initial public offering in February 2004, trading on the NASDAQ under the symbol ATHR.

[3] The company's first office was a converted house on Encina Avenue, Palo Alto, adjacent to a car wash and Town & Country Village.

In 2000, T-Span Systems was renamed Atheros Communications and the company moved to a larger office at 529 Almanor Avenue, Sunnyvale.

[5] In 2004, Atheros unveiled a number of products, including the first video chipset for mainstream HDTV-quality wireless connectivity.

In 2005, Atheros introduced the industry's first MIMO-enabled WLAN chip,[6] as well as the ROCm family for mobile handsets and portable consumer electronics.

After the acquisition, the division unveiled the WCN3660 Combo Chip, which integrated dual-band Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and FM into Qualcomm Snapdragon mobile processors.

Qualcomm Atheros launched the Skifta media shifting application for Android[13] and released the first HomePlug Green PHY at the end of the year.

In 2012, Qualcomm Atheros announced a Wi-Fi display product at the Consumer Electronics Show 2012,[14] along with a new chip for HomePlug AV power line networking.

[33] Atheros also released some source from their binary HAL under ISC license to add support for their abg chips.