Broadcom Powers the Connected Digital Home with Industry Leading Silicon Solutions

Broadcom Powers the Connected Digital Home with Industry Leading Silicon
Solutions
New Broadcom(R) Technology Demonstrations at 2008 International CES Showcase
New Levels of Integration and Convergence

LAS VEGAS, Jan. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 2008 International CES --
January 6, 2008 -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in
semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that it
will demonstrate a variety of new silicon, software and reference design
platforms at the 2008 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las
Vegas, Nevada from January 7th through January 10th. The Broadcom(R) technical
demonstrations will showcase the convergence of digital video, voice and data
to deliver state-of-the-art multimedia experiences to consumers at home, at
work and on the go, and will provide an exciting preview of the upcoming
consumer products enabled by Broadcom's innovative technology.
The following is a preview of select new Broadcom consumer technologies
that will be featured in the company's demonstration suite at CES, Meeting
Room #35778, South Hall 4 in the Las Vegas Convention Center (LVCC):
Digital Video Technology:
-- Full high definition (HD) 1080p digital TV technology: Broadcom will
demonstrate the latest advancements in the company's HD digital TV
products and will also show solutions for capturing audio and video
content and for reconciling disparate video and audio content in cable,
satellite and IPTV set-top boxes (STBs), home media centers, portable
media players, cell phones and a wide range of entertainment devices
for the digital home.
-- Digital television home connectivity: Broadcom will demonstrate digital
television connectivity based on Broadcom solutions that offer
consumers the ability to connect a wide variety of electronics devices
-- all enabled by Broadcom technology -- to accomplish simple but
meaningful tasks in a home environment.
-- High definition DVD technology: Broadcom will demonstrate the
industry's most advanced complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution that
combines both Blu-ray Disc(R) and HD DVD optical disc formats into a
highly integrated, single-chip design. The Broadcom SoC has an advanced
feature set, coupled with a Universal Optical Disc software stack and
reference platform, that provides OEMs with a complete platform for
future generation media players.
-- Client-server HD media streaming set-top box technology: Broadcom will
demonstrate client-server reference platforms for DSL/IP networks
supporting advanced functionality including the Digital Living Network
Alliance(R) (DLNA(R)) technology, secure video processor (SVP) and
personal video recorder (PVR) "trick mode" capabilities over Ethernet
and 802.11n wireless media.
-- Cable set-top box technology: Broadcom will demonstrate its family of
cable STB silicon and software reference designs representing industry
specifications that support OCAP, multi-stream CableCard, downloadable
conditional access (DCAS), DOCSIS(R) set-top Gateway (DSG), DOCSIS 3.0
downstream channel bonding, and advanced HDTV MPEG-4 video and Dolby(R)
Digital Plus audio decoding capabilities in a client-server network.
-- Advanced satellite STB technology: Broadcom will demonstrate both
satellite and hybrid STB reference platforms using advanced modulation
technology, DVB-S2. These platforms perform both SD and HD MPEG-2 and
AVC decode, and will demonstrate PVR and video-on-demand (VOD)
capabilities with VCR "trick mode" effects on various video streams. In
addition, the demonstration highlights Broadcom's advanced 2D and 3D
graphics engines that enable Internet browsers and next-generation
electronic program guides.
-- Advanced communications technology: Broadcom will demonstrate next
generation communications technologies for the xDSL market, including
multi-mode VDSL2/ADSL2+ central office and consumer premises solutions
that support high definition video, VoIP and 802.11n wireless
connectivity.

Mobile and Wireless Networking Solutions:
-- Cellular: Broadcom will demonstrate the world's first 3G and 2G
"mobile-phone-on-a chip" solutions that include advanced baseband
processors and all the key components of a cell phone on single 65nm
silicon die products.
-- Bluetooth(R): Broadcom will showcase new headset solutions as well as
multiple advanced Bluetooth combination technologies including WLAN and
FM that enable consumer products with new usage models at breakthrough
prices and performance levels.
-- GPS: Adding to Broadcom's already broad wireless portfolio,
demonstrations will feature the company's new highly integrated GPS
solutions for personal navigation devices and mobile handsets.
-- Mobile Multimedia: Broadcom will demonstrate its VideoCore(R) III
mobile multimedia processor, the world's first product enabling low
power HD video camcorder and playback over HDMI, together with game
console quality 3D graphics and 12 megapixel high resolution digital
camera.
-- Cellular RF: Broadcom will demonstrate the world's first 65nm digital
CMOS 2G & 3G cellular RF enabled by innovative architectures that
deliver the smallest size and lowest cost bill of materials.
-- Mobile Power Management (PMU): Broadcom will demonstrate industry
leading levels of integration, efficiency, and programmable flexibility
enables optimized system-level power consumption and lower overall
system cost in mobile devices.
-- Wi-Fi/WLAN: Broadcom will demonstrate industry leading 802.11g and
802.11n solutions that push the boundaries of speed and coverage to
enable Wi-Fi(R) users to experience more from their devices.
-- Voice-over-IP (VoIP): Broadcom will highlight new partnerships
illustrating how Broadcom's innovative desktop and mobile IP phones
deliver a complete multimedia VoIP experience.

About Broadcom
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(R).
Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies,
with 2006 revenue of $3.67 billion, and holds over 2,300 U.S. and 1,000
foreign patents, more than 7,100 additional pending patent applications, and
one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and
wireless transmission of voice, video and data.
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.
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Digital Living Network Alliance(R) and DLNA(R) are trademarks of the Digital
Living Network Alliance. DOCSIS(R) is a trademark of Cable Television
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Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Laura Brandlin
Senior Director, Marketing Communications
949-926-5108
lbrandlin@broadcom.com

Broadcom Investor Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Vice President, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
andrewtp@broadcom.com

SOURCE Broadcom Corporation; BRCM Broadband

Trade Press, Laura Brandlin, Senior Director, Marketing Communications,
+1-949-926-5108, or lbrandlin@broadcom.com, or Investor Relations, T. Peter
Andrew, Vice President, Investor Relations, +1-949-926-5663, or
andrewtp@broadcom.com, both of Broadcom Corporation