Atheros Communications was founded in 1998, when web surfers could only dream of a day when their computers wouldn’t need so many overpriced cables. The San Jose company makes complex chip sets — souped-up bunches of circuits that work together in really small spaces — that carry internet, radio, and other data-packed wireless signals through the air to laptops, tablets, and phones. The company (Nasdaq: ATHR) posted revenue of $927 million in 2010, up 71 percent from $543 million a year earlier. The post-recession stirrings in the tech industry made Atheros an attractive takeover target — in January, Qualcomm, the world’s largest maker of mobile phone chips, agreed to buy Atheros in a $3.2 billion cash deal, although some complications arose earlier this month.

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Adam Tachner, 44, is vice president and general counsel of Atheros. He admits half-jokingly that he joined the company back in 2000 so he could finally get decent wireless internet at home. That wasn’t the whole reason, though.

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