Company Fact Sheet

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:

• Blu-ray Disc® solutions with streaming capabilities featuring high definition video playback at 1080p resolution, picture-in-picture video support and high definition multi-channel audio
• 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

Customers currently shipping communications equipment incorporating our products include Alcatel, Apple, Cisco, Dell, Echostar, HP, LG, Motorola, Netgear, Nintendo, Nokia, Pace, Samsung and Thomson CE, 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.

Broadcom has engaged in numerous 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:

• Dec 2009 Dune Networks, Inc. - A developer of switch fabric solutions for data center networking equipment
• Oct 2008 AMD DTV Business - A leading provider of DTV solutions, interactive platforms and panel processors
• Feb 2008 Sunext Design, Inc. - A leading provider of optical drive technologies
• July 2007 Global Locate, Inc. - A leading provider of global positioning system (GPS) products and software
• May 2007 Octalica Inc. - A developer of networking technologies based on MoCA™ (Multimedia over Coax Alliance)
• Jan 2007 LVL7 Systems, Inc. - A leading developer of production-ready networking software
• March 2006 Sandburst Corporation - A leading provider of semiconductor solutions and routing systems-on-a-chip (SoCs)
• Oct 2005 Athena Semiconductors, Inc. - A developer of mobile digital television tuner and low-power Wi-Fi® technologies
• Aug 2005 Siliquent Technologies, Inc. - A developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet (10GbE) network interface controllers (NICs)
• Mar 2005 Zeevo, Inc. - A leading provider of semiconductor solutions for Bluetooth® Wireless headset products
• Feb 2005 Alliant Networks, Inc. - A developer of advanced embedded software for WLAN applications
• Sep 2004 Alphamosaic Limited - A leading developer of advanced mobile imaging, multimedia, and 3D graphics technology
• July 2004 Zyray Wireless Inc. - A leading developer of baseband co-processors addressing WCDMA mobile devices
• Apr 2004 M-Stream, Inc. - A developer of solutions for signal-to-noise ratio improvements in cellular handsets
• May 2004 WIDCOMM, Inc. - A leading provider of software solutions for Bluetooth® wireless products
• Apr 2004 Sand Video, Inc. - A leader in advanced video compression technology
• Jan 2004 RAIDCore, Inc. - A provider of full-featured enterprise-class RAID software
• May 2002 Mobilink Telecom, Inc. - Leading developer and supplier of GSM and GPRS wireless technologies

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, six to seven 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.

• Broadcom Corporation has been recognized as a certified member of C-TPAT by U.S. Customs and Border Protection