SEOUL, South Korea, Dec. 13 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Agere Systems (NYSE: AGR) today announced it has been selected by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. as the recipient of the 2005 "Most Valued Partner Award" presented during Samsung's recent Telecom Partners' Day. The award, one of the most prestigious and coveted honors that can be bestowed on Samsung's business partners, was also won by Agere Systems in 2003 and 2004. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040618/AGERELOGO) Samsung Electronics chose its best suppliers based on a range of criteria such as product development, customer support, speed, innovation and cost. Agere proudly outperformed a number of its competitors to win this title for the third consecutive year. "Agere has consistently distinguished itself as a company providing not only great chip solutions, but also the system-level understanding and close collaboration required to bring the best possible products to market," said Ki Tae Lee, President and CEO Telecommunication Network Business, Samsung Electronics. "Agere has demonstrated a clear commitment to helping Samsung build on our success as a leader in mobile phone quality and innovation." "We are extremely proud to receive this award three times in a row from Samsung Electronics," said Richard L. Clemmer, President and CEO of Agere Systems. "Our specialties in 3G W-EDGE(TM), the recently launched Vision(TM) product family and our upcoming HSDPA solutions deliver the flexibility and scalability that meet Samsung's needs as they strive to quickly introduce full-featured multimedia mobile phones to ever demanding consumers. We will continue to work with Samsung as a strategic provider focused on bringing the best solutions to the mobile phone market." According to market research firm IDC, Samsung recorded 26.8 million units of handset sales in the third quarter of 2005 and is currently the third largest handset supplier in the world.* For the last three years, Agere has served as the phone maker's primary GPRS and EDGE solution provider. Samsung uses Agere chipsets and software in high-performance, full-featured GPRS and EDGE mobile phones. About Samsung Electronics Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. is a global leader in semiconductor, telecommunication, digital media and digital convergence technologies with 2004 parent company sales of US$55.2 billion and net income of US$10.3 billion. Employing approximately 113,600 people in over 90 offices in 48 countries, the company consists of five main business units: Digital Appliance Business, Digital Media Business, LCD Business, Semiconductor Business and Telecommunication Network Business. Recognized as one of the fastest growing global brands, Samsung Electronics is a leading producer of digital TVs, memory chips, mobile phones, and TFT-LCDs. For more information, please visit http://www.samsung.com/ 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. * Source: IDC WW Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, Preliminary as of November 9, 2005 Vision and W-EDGE are trademarks, and 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, 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. http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20040618/AGERELOGO http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: Agere Systems CONTACT: JoAnna Schooler, +1-610-712-1746 (office), or +1-908-283-4060 (mobile), , or Dee Yeung, (+86 21) 5461 4688, ext. 365 (office), (+86) 13901 833 733 (mobile, China), or (+852) 9349 9449 (mobile, Hong Kong), , both of Agere Systems Web site: http://www.samsung.com/ Web site: http://www.agere.com/

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