Broadcom's 'PND-on-a-Chip' Integrates Advanced, Low Power GPS Capabilities with Powerful...

Broadcom's 'PND-on-a-Chip' Integrates Advanced, Low Power GPS Capabilities
with Powerful Applications Processing for Stunning Graphical Navigation

Unprecedented Levels of Integration and new Power Management Solution Drive
Lower Costs by Eliminating Expensive External Components Required by
Competitive Solutions

TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Computex 2009 -- Broadcom
Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and
wireless communications, today announced a new navigation processor and power
management (PMU) solution designed specifically for personal navigation
devices (PNDs). The new 'PND-on-a-chip' integrates many of the costly
external components required by competitive solutions, including a global
positioning system (GPS) baseband, radio frequency (RF) circuitry and low
noise amplifier (LNA) as well as high powered applications and graphics
processors. The 'PND-on-a-chip' solution provides all the key components
required to deliver a graphical user experience of life-like maps and engaging
navigational information for next generation PNDs without the lags and blocky
renderings of many current devices.

Today's PNDs are often limited by the processing and graphics capabilities of
applications processors with often sluggish map rendering and awkward user
interfaces that are limited by the capabilities of the processor. In
contrast, PND manufacturers can take advantage of the new 'PND-on-a-chip's'
hardware-based graphics processing unit to create engaging 3D user interfaces
while accelerating map rendering to make the user experience as rich and easy
to use as possible.

Announced today is the Broadcom(R) BCM4760 system-on-a-chip (SoC) solution
that integrates several costly external components normally required by
competitive solutions. Designed in Broadcom's 65 nanometer (nm) process, the
BCM4760 also integrates an audio codec, touch screen controller and USB 2.0
controller with high speed transceiver, all on a single die. This allows PNDs
based on the BCM4760 to eliminate these components, resulting in reduced
system cost, power consumption and complexity.

The BCM4760 is a complete, low power SoC solution that combines a high
performance GPS receiver and baseband, an ARM11(TM) processor, an OpenGL(R) ES
1.1/OpenVG(TM) 1.0-compliant graphics processor and advanced analog technology
to deliver the most highly integrated solution ever created for the personal
navigation market. The built-in applications processing is powerful enough to
serve as the core processor for a full range of devices beyond the PND market,
including personal media players, gaming devices and other mobile products.

"Our proven expertise in integrating complex RF, analog and digital circuits
at extremely small geometries has enabled us to deliver this industry-first
for the PND market," said Scott Pomerantz, Vice President & General Manager of
Broadcom's GPS line of business. "By delivering an applications processor
that integrates both the GPS baseband and radio on a single die, without any
compromises in performance, Broadcom is helping drive high-end graphics
performance to new classes of PND devices."

In conjunction with today's BCM4760 SoC announcement, Broadcom also introduces
its new BCM59040 power management unit (PMU) designed for use in advanced
mobile systems based on the BCM4760. This all-CMOS PMU includes advanced
power management techniques, such as highly efficient DC/DC converters, high
performance LDOs, a switcher regulated charger with USB and wall adapter
inputs, USB OTG (on-the-go) detection and Vbus boost control -- all of which
are features aligned with PND and portable media player manufacturer
requirements. A new feature introduced with the BCM59040 is Broadcom's
'charge-and-play' technology which eliminates the need to wait for an empty
battery to be charged sufficiently for the system to operate, which increases
battery life by reducing charge/discharge cycles.

The BCM4760 SoC also provides integrated support for Broadcom's other industry
leading connectivity solutions including Bluetooth(R), Wi-Fi(R) and combo chip
solutions, and includes a host peripheral interface for easy integration with
Broadcom's BCM2727 low power mobile multimedia processor, built-in memory
interfaces and the USB 2.0 OTG interface.

Serving the PND Market
The BCM4760 SoC enables system manufacturers to create a platform that meets
the needs of the entry-level, mid-level and high-level GPS personal navigation
device market segments as follows:

For the entry-level market where low cost is the primary focus, the BCM4760
provides a USB 2.0 OTG high-speed controller with integrated transceiver, a 4-
or 5-wire touch controller, and audio mixer with a digital-to-analog converter
(DAC) to simplify the design and help shrink the PCB footprint while keeping
the total bill-of-material (BOM) cost to a minimum.

For the mid-level market, the BCM4760 provides ample processing power for the
rapid display of 3D city maps and 3D landmarks. It utilizes high performance
3-processor architecture, multiple high-speed interfaces, and Broadcom's
connectivity technologies, such as Bluetooth and WLAN chipsets, can be
connected directly to the BCM4760 platform. Other features, such as
hands-free speakerphone, photo viewing and music playback, are also supported.

For the high-level market, the BCM4760 supports a direct connection to
Broadcom's VideoCore(R) family of mobile multimedia co-processors. Adding the
VideoCore III co-processor for example, enables high definition (HD) video
playback and recording, graphics acceleration, image signal processing (ISP),
and more.

Availability and Pricing
The Broadcom BCM4760 'PND-on-a-chip' solution and BCM59040 PMU are now
sampling to early access customers. Pricing is available upon request.

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
2008 revenue of $4.66 billion, and holds over 3,300 U.S. and over 1,300
foreign patents, more than 7,500 additional pending patent applications, and
one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and
wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.

A FORTUNE 500(R) company, 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.

Cautions regarding Forward Looking Statements:
All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other
than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking
statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current
expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and business,
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include, but are not limited to, the demand for advanced GPS capabilities for
personal navigation products, our position in that market, and the timing of
volume production for Broadcom BCM4760 SoC solutions. These forward-looking
statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks,
uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ
materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking
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Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection
with BCM4760 'PND-on-a-chip' solutions include, but are not limited to

-- the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt
Broadcom's GPS technologies for mobile applications;
-- trends in the wireless networking markets in various geographic
regions,
including seasonality in sales of consumer products into which our
products are incorporated, and possible disruption in commercial
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United
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-- the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order;
-- the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume
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-- our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and
evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new
markets; and

-- competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification,
availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and
the
resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products.

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materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, but are
not limited to the list that can be found at
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Broadcom Trade Press Contact Broadcom Investor Relations Contact
Henry Rael T. Peter Andrew
Public Relations Manager Vice President, Corporate Communications
949-926-5734 949-926-5663
hrael@broadcom.com andrewtp@broadcom.com

SOURCE Broadcom Corporation; BRCM Mobile & Wireless

Broadcom Trade Press Contact, Henry Rael, Public Relations Manager,
+1-949-926-5734, hrael@broadcom.com, or Broadcom Investor Relations Contact,
T. Peter Andrew, Vice President, Corporate Communications, +1-949-926-5663,
andrewtp@broadcom.com