Debbie Abbott

For more information, contact: Debbie Abbott

Contact: Debbie Abbott, director of Corporate Communications, 1-408-731-2790, dabbott@proxim.com.

Proxim spokeswoman Debbie Abbott would not comment on the specifics of the Agere case.However, she said Proxim believes it has a "very strong case" against vendors it sees infringing on its patents.

In March, Proxim took actions to protect its own WLAN patented technology.The patents provide core transmitter and receiver properties for range, data rate and interference minimization for direct sequence WLAN technology in the 2.4GHz range, according to the company.

Proxim first filed suit against six networking companies that sell WLAN technology, alleging patent infringement.Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Proxim sued 3Com, Cisco Systems, Intersil, SMC Networks, Symbol Technologies and Wayport.Each of the companies sells direct-sequence WLAN products and services based on the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) 802.11b wireless communication standard.

Contact : Debbie Abbott , director of Corporate Communications , 408/731-2790 , dabbott@proxim.com.

About TDKTDK Corporation ( NYSE : TDK ) is a leading global electronics company based in Japan.It was established in 1935 to commercialize ferrite , a key material in electronics and magnetics.TDK's current product line includes ferrite materials , electronic components and ICs , wireless computer networking products , magnetic heads for HDD , digital recording hardware and advanced digital recording media.Net sales in FY2000 were US $ 6.3 billion.For more information about TDK , visit www.tdk.com.

Company spokeswoman Debbie Abbott declined to comment in detail , other than to say that Intel continues to be a customer of ours.They are selling and supporting their current HomeRF products..

Debbie Abbott