Tyco Electronics has joined the SiRF Value Added Manufacturer program. As a SiRF VAM, Tyco Electronics will release a family of GPS module products based on SiRF’s SiRFstarIII architecture. The first modules called A1080 will be released in Q4 2006 and available through Tyco’s sales channels. The A1080 features the GSC3/LP, the low power, single chip implementation of the SiRFstarIII architecture. The Tyco Electronics modules based on SiRF chipsets will be designed by Tyco Electronics Power Systems in Germany and manufactured at multiple Tyco Electronics factories in the European Union.