Two years ago this week, Lucent Technologies completed its spinoff of Agere Systems. Now the rules governing the separation pose fewer restrictions on Agere’s ability to chart its own course.… ...

Agere Systems Inc. and rival communications chip maker Broadcom Corp. traded patent-infringement lawsuits accusing each other of stealing technology without paying for it.

Agere, a communications-parts company based in Allentown, Pa., said it is evaluating alternatives to comply with the Big Board's requirement.

Communications equipment maker Agere Systems said today that it will get out of the optoelectronics business, a move that will result in plant closings and 4,000 job losses by the end of 2003.

Agere Systems has sold its Orlando, Fla., plant to private investors for $50 million. The Tavistock Group, a private investment company with holdings in central Florida, and an Orlando architecture… ...

Agere says its new chip can handle voice, data and video signals four times faster than its competition--a potential boost for the sagging telecom industry.

The company makes further preparations to spin off its Agere Systems communications chip unit as the optical sector continues to take a beating.

PHILADELPHIA — LSI Logic Corp. said Monday that it would purchase rival storage and communications chip maker Agere Systems Inc. for $4 billion in stock, a move that would help it expand into ...

LSI hopes to use the deal to extend its market in storage and consumer electronics by adding Agere's expertise in storage, mobility and networking.

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 ...

Optical component maker Agere Systems will get rid of 24 percent of its workers in the second round of firings.

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) --Agere Systems Inc. has sued Microsoft Corp. for allegedly misappropriating trade secrets related to voice-over-Internet technology.