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Consumer electronics giant Sony has been ordered to pay Agere Systems, now part of LSI Electronics) $18.4 million for infringing on an Agere patent related to data protcol used for labeling and self-registering data contained in a music chip. The case dates back to March of 2006, when Agere alleged Sony was infringing on eight of its patents, although Sony was found not to be infringing on seven of the patents through a licensing… Read More

Expected this summer, the MP3 Surround format is based on Agere Systems' technology. “What we do is take the original surround-sound signal,” explains Peter Kroon, Agere's chief multimedia architect, “and we down-mix that from 5.1 channels to stereo.” Rather than capturing all the additional channel information, however, the encoding uses psychoacoustic techniques to capture only spatial and speed… Read More

Agere Systems announced that its Wi-Fi networking chip set is being used by original design manufacturer Universal Scientific Industrial Co. Ltd. (USI) for the industry's first small-form-factor802.11b/Bluetooth wireless module specifically designed for handheld consumer devices. This integrated module offers the seamless connectivity, small size and low power required in such portablewireless products as personal digital assistants… Read More