Agere Systems Names Ruediger Stroh Executive Vice President and General Manager of Storage Division

30 November 2005

Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR) today announced that Ruediger Stroh has been named Executive Vice President and General Manager of Agere's Storage division, effective immediately. Agere's Storage business provides integrated silicon platforms for hard disk drives that address enterprise storage area networks (SANs), servers, desktop PCs, laptops, and consumer electronics markets. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040618/AGERELOGO ) As leader of the Storage division, Stroh will be responsible for driving growth in Agere's largest business segment, and will report directly to Richard Clemmer, Agere President and CEO. "We are focused on expanding our breadth of storage products and building on our market positions across all hard disk drive segments," said Clemmer. "A veteran of both large and small companies in the electronics industry, Ruediger brings to Agere an exceptional balance of experience, having successfully led key storage businesses at companies like Infineon as well as at many startups. I am confident that his leadership will drive higher levels of agility, execution and innovation in our Storage division." Stroh previously served as CEO for a number of start-up companies focused on nano-materials, SAN and wireless connectivity integrated circuits (ICs). He also held the position of Senior Vice President and General Manager for Infineon Technologies, where he was responsible for managing the Network and Computer Storage, Data Communications, and Consumer divisions. Before moving to Infineon, Stroh spent several years at Siemens AG focused on improving productivity and key business processes across multiple divisions. "I am very pleased to join Agere's Storage group, and look forward to leveraging their world-class engineering and operational expertise to transform the business into a more responsive and customer-focused organization," said Stroh. "I am committed to developing the leadership team and strategy necessary to make Agere the undisputed leader of hard disk drive ICs." Ruediger Stroh will be based in Agere's offices in San Jose, Calif. Stroh replaces Joseph O'Hare, who will oversee Agere's Total Quality group. About Agere Systems Agere Systems is a global leader in semiconductors for storage, wireless data, and public and enterprise networks. The company's chips and software power a broad range of computing and communications applications, from cell phones, PCs, PDAs, hard disk drives and gaming devices to the world's most sophisticated wireless and wireline networks. Agere's customers include top manufacturers of consumer electronics, communications and computing equipment. Agere's products connect people to information and entertainment at home, at work and on the road -- enabling the connected lifestyle. For more information, customers may visit Agere's Web site at http://www.agere.com or contact one of Agere's regional sales offices. Customers in the U.S. may also call the Agere Systems Customer Response Center at 1-800-372-2447. Customers in Canada may call 1-800-553-2448. Customers outside those countries may call 1-610-712-4323. Fax inquiries may be directed to 1-610-712-4106, or e-mail queries to docmaster@agere.com. Written inquiries should be sent to Agere Systems, Room 10A-301C, 1110 American Parkway NE, Lehigh Valley Central Campus, Allentown, PA, 18109, USA. Agere, Agere Systems and the Agere Systems logo are registered trademarks of Agere Systems Inc. This release contains forward-looking statements based on information currently available to Agere. Agere's actual results could differ materially from the results stated or implied by those forward-looking statements due to a number of risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to, our reliance on major customers and suppliers, our ability to keep pace with technological change, our dependence on new product development, price and product competition, availability of manufacturing capacity, customer demand for our products and services, and general industry and market conditions. For a further discussion of these and other risks and uncertainties, see our annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2004, and our quarterly report on Form 10-Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2005. Agere disclaims any intention or obligation to update or revise any forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

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