Editing Agere Systems (section)

{{short description|American integrated circuit components company}}
{{Infobox company
| name = Agere Systems, Inc.
| logo = Agere systems Logo.svg
| fate = Merged into [[LSI Corporation]]
| successor = [[LSI Corporation]], [[Avago Technologies]], and [[Intel Corp]]
| foundation = Spun off from [[Lucent Technologies]] on {{start date and age|2002|6|1}}
| defunct = {{end date and age|2007|4|2}}
| location = [[Allentown, Pennsylvania]], U.S.
| key_people = Richard L. Clemmer, President and CEO
| num_employees = ~17,000
| industry = Semiconductor-integrated circuits
| products = Integrated circuits
| website = {{web archive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060209032116/https://www.agere.com/|title=agere.com}}
}}

'''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.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2007-04-02 |title=LSI Logic completes Agere acquisition |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/lsi-agere-idUSN0241465420070402 |access-date=2022-03-20}}</ref> 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.]]