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Company Fact Sheet
Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and
global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless
communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of
voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home,
the office and the mobile environment. We provide the
industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art,
system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers
of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment
and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These
solutions support our core mission: Connecting
everything®.
Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless
semiconductor companies, with 2007 revenue of $3.78 billion,
and holds over 2,600 U.S and 1,200 foreign patents, more than
7,450 additional pending patent applications, and one of the
broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both
wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and
multimedia.
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has
offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and
Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at +1.949.926.5000 or at
www.broadcom.com.
Broadcom believes that one of our key competitive
advantages is our broad base of core technologies
encompassing the complete design space from systems to
silicon. We have developed and continue to build on the
following technology foundations:
- Proprietary communications systems algorithms and
protocols
- Advanced DSP hardware architectures
- System-on-a-chip design methodologies and advanced
library development for both standard cell and full-custom
integrated circuit design
- High-performance radio frequency, analog and
mixed-signal circuit design using industry-standard CMOS
processes
- High-performance custom microprocessor architectures
and circuit designs
- Extensive software reference platforms to enable
complete system-level solutions
Broadcom focuses on delivering semiconductor solutions for
communications to the home, enterprise and mobile markets.
Our diverse product portfolio includes:
- Bluetooth® short-range wireless products for PCs,
mobile phones, PDAs, keyboards, mice and automotive
electronics
- Broadband network processor solutions performing
complex network routing and traffic management for storage,
metropolitan, and wide area networks
- Digital cable products for cable modems, digital cable
television set-top boxes, personal video recording, cable
modem termination systems and residential broadband
gateways
- Digital TV solutions with standard definition (SD) and
high definition (HD) video and graphics capabilities for
interactive televisions, cable, and DBS set-top boxes
- Direct broadcast satellite (DBS) and cable devices for
integrated digital television programming designed for a
variety of digital set-top devices, high-definition
televisions and TV tuner cards
- DSL high-speed access chipsets for both central office
and customer premises equipment
- Mobile multimedia processors for mobile phones and
handheld platforms that include mobile TV, camcorder, and
digital camera capabilities
- Mobile phone solutions for WCDMA/EDGE/GPRS/GSM phones
and PC cards
- Optical, metropolitan and wide area networking
components for Synchronous Optical Networks (SONET) and
Dense Wave Division Multiplexing (DWDM) applications
- Security processors and adapter solutions for
enterprise networks
- Server SystemI/O™ (input/output) integrated
circuits for servers, storage and workstation platforms
enabling the transmission, storing and routing of data for
private and public networks
- Storage solutions including Redundant Array of
Independent Disks (RAID) controllers and network attached
storage-on-a-chip (NASoC) technology for small-to-medium
sized businesses (SMB) and for embedded applications
- Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions for deployment in
enterprise IP phones, residential terminal adapters,
voice-enabled cable/DSL residential gateways and Wi-Fi®
phones
- Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) Wi-Fi 802.11a/b/g
solutions for client devices, PCs, access points, broadband
modems and routers
- 10 Gigabit Ethernet, Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet
transceivers and switching solutions for enterprise
networking applications including client PCs, switches,
wiring closets, servers, storage, and wide area
networks
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Customers currently shipping communications equipment
incorporating our products include Apple, Cisco, Dell,
Echostar, HP, IBM, Motorola, Nortel, Scientific Atlanta,
Thomson and 3Com, among others. Broadcom has significant
market share in the markets for cable modems, digital
set-top boxes, residential broadband gateways, servers,
network switches and Gigabit Ethernet, and provides key
technology and products in emerging markets such as
Bluetooth®, digital TV, wireless LAN, cellular, digital
subscriber line (DSL), Voice over IP (VoIP), mobile
multimedia, direct broadcast satellite (DBS), personal video
recording (PVR), and broadband processors.
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Broadcom has engaged in more than 30 strategic acquisitions
since 1999 to expand its product offerings and enable the
convergence of technology into advanced system-on-a-chip
solutions for the delivery of voice, video and data in
residential broadband gateway; enterprise and storage
networking; and mobile and wireless communications
applications. Some of our most recent acquisitions
include:
- Sunext Design, Inc. - A leading provider
of optical drive technologies, March 2008
- Global Locate, Inc. - A leading
provider of global positioning system (GPS) products and
software, June 2007
- Octalica, Inc. - A developer of
networking technologies based on MoCA™ (Multimedia
over Coax Alliance), May 2007
- LVL7 Systems, Inc. - A leading developer
of production-ready networking software, November 2006
- Sandburst Corporation - A leading
provider of semiconductor solutions and routing
systems-on-a-chip (SoCs), January 2006
- Athena Semiconductors, Inc. - A
developer of mobile digital tuner and low-power Wi-Fi®
technologies, October 2005
- Siliquent Technologies, Inc. - A
developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network interface
controllers (NICs), July 2005
- Zeevo, Inc. - A leading provider of
semiconductor solutions for Bluetooth® Wireless headset
products, March 2005
- Alliant Networks, Inc. - A developer of
advanced embedded software for WLAN applications, February
2005
- Alphamosaic, Ltd. - A leading developer
of advanced mobile imaging, multimedia, and 3D graphics
technology, September 2004
- Zyray Wireless Inc. - A leading developer
of baseband co-processors addressing WCDMA mobile devices,
June 2004
- M-Stream, Inc. - A developer of solutions
for signal-to-noise ratio improvements in cellular handsets,
April 2004
- Kimalink - A developer of integrated
circuits for wireless data communications and future mobile
devices, April 2004
- Widcomm - A leading provider of software
solutions for Bluetooth® wireless products, April 2004
- Sand Video, Inc. - A leader in advanced
video compression technology, April 2004
- RAIDCore, Inc. - A provider of full-featured
enterprise-class RAID software, January 2004
- Gadzoox Networks, Inc. - Leading provider
of storage networking technology, March 2003
- Mobilink Telecom, Inc. - Leading developer
and supplier of GSM and GPRS wireless technologies, May
2002
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Broadcom manufactures products using standard CMOS process
techniques. The standard nature of these processes permits us
to engage independent silicon foundries to fabricate our
integrated circuits. By subcontracting our manufacturing
requirements, we are able to focus our resources on design
and test applications where we believe we have greater
competitive advantages. This strategy also eliminates the
high cost of owning and operating a semiconductor wafer
fabrication facility.
Broadcom products are currently fabricated with .35
micron, quad layer metal; .22 micron, five layer metal; .18
micron, five and six layer metal; .13 micron, six and seven
layer metal; and 90 nanometer, six and seven layer metal
structures. We continuously evaluate the benefits, on a
product-by-product basis, of migrating to smaller geometry
process technologies, and are designing most new products in
65 nanometer process technology, seven to eight layer metal,
feature sizes.
Broadcom's key silicon foundries are Taiwan Semiconductor
Manufacturing Corporation in Taiwan, Chartered Semiconductor
Manufacturing in Singapore, Semiconductor Manufacturing
International Corporation in China, Silterra Malaysia Sdn.
Bhd. in Malaysia and United Microelectronics Corporation in
Singapore and Taiwan, several of which maintain multiple
fabrication facilities in various locations.
Broadcom's assembly and testing is conducted by eight key
subcontractors: Advanced Semiconductor Engineering
(previously Global Advance Packaging & Test) in China;
Amkor in Korea, Philippines and China; ASAT in Hong Kong;
EEMS Test Singapore in Singapore; Signetics in Korea;
Siliconware Precision in Taiwan; STATSChipac in Singapore,
Korea, Malaysia and China; and United Test and Assembly
Center in Singapore.
Broadcom was founded in 1991 by Henry T. Nicholas III,
Ph.D. and Henry Samueli, Ph.D. with the vision of enabling
broadband communications by leveraging their combined 35
years of communications IC experience obtained at TRW in the
military communications industry, at UCLA in the academic
research community and at PairGain Technologies in the
commercial telecommunications industry.
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