Broadcom® Combo Chips Drive the Adoption of New Bluetooth® low energy Wireless Technology in Mobile

Dual-Mode Bluetooth® low energy Expands the Bluetooth Ecosystem by Adding Wireless Medical and Fitness Monitoring





IRVINE, Calif. – December 17, 2009 – Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its latest generation Bluetooth® combination chip is compliant with the ratified Bluetooth low energy version of the Bluetooth technology specification.



The Bluetooth low energy specification, which the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) ratified today, enables an ultra-low power implementation of Bluetooth technology, making the technology increasingly applicable for wireless medical and fitness monitoring devices that necessitate very long battery life. With Broadcom’s dual-mode implementation, OEMs can extend these new Bluetooth low energy applications to smartphones and other devices while also enabling a wide array of existing popular Bluetooth functions with a single chip, paving the way for the new Bluetooth low energy version of the specification to gain broad adoption in consumer electronics products.



Highlights/Key Facts:

· The Bluetooth SIG has ratified the Bluetooth low energy Specification, enabling a new wave of Bluetooth applications that connect devices with extremely stringent power requirements, including monitoring devices that use very small batteries.

· The ease with which Bluetooth low energy can be added into cell phones and PCs will help consolidate the market for low energy devices from a handful of proprietary technologies to Bluetooth low energy, which benefits from an installed base of billions of existing Bluetooth devices.

· Broadcom was an early supporter of low energy technology and has been a leading contributor to the Bluetooth SIG Specification Working Group, consistently delivering test platforms to drive the process forward.

· Broadcom’s Bluetooth low energy product offering includes extensive hardware and software innovations that will be made available across many of the company’s Bluetooth products over the coming year. The first Bluetooth low energy offering will be the Broadcom® InConcert® BCM2049 Bluetooth combo chip that supports Bluetooth low energy dual-mode operation and is a cost effective, high performance solution that enables mobile phone manufacturers to extend the user experience of their handset products to the coming wave of Bluetooth low energy devices.

· Dual-mode chips provide both standard Bluetooth functionality, as well as Bluetooth low energy functionality with the same solution. Competing, non dual-mode devices will require two separate chips to provide both Bluetooth low energy and standard Bluetooth functionality, which increases cost, area and power consumption when integrating the new technology.

· In support of the Bluetooth low energy specification, Broadcom has developed additional software profiles to support sensors as a feature of its software stack. Once this, and other Bluetooth low energy profiles have been formally defined and approved by the SIG, Broadcom will be able to make them quickly available to its OEM partners.

· Broadcom is fully committed to support all Bluetooth low energy features and operation modes in future Bluetooth product offerings.





Supporting Quotes:



Rick Cnossen, President and Chair of the Board of Directors

Continua Health Alliance

“Continua Health Alliance is working to ensure products which utilize Bluetooth Low Energy technology meet the exacting needs of the health and fitness applications enabled by Continua members. Broadcom’s support of Bluetooth Low Energy technology is a significant step towards enabling low-power mobile devices, providing the opportunity to connect people more directly to their health and wellness.”



Mike Foley, Executive Director,

Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG)

“Broadcom has been a strong partner for the Bluetooth SIG in developing the new Bluetooth low energy specification. Our collaboration with Broadcom has helped maintain a strong and growing technology roadmap for Bluetooth technology and we look forward to seeing these developments drive Bluetooth technology into a broad range of new products.”



Craig Ochikubo, Vice President & General Manager,

Broadcom’s Wireless Personal Area Networking line of business

“Bluetooth low energy adds a new dimension to the personal wireless ecosystem, adding sophisticated standards-based remote monitoring to a range of consumer devices. Broadcom applauds the Bluetooth SIG for achieving this milestone and we will continue our active participation in the standards process.”



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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 2008 revenue of $4.66 billion, and holds over 3,650 U.S. and over 1,450 foreign patents, more than 7,750 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.



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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, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, references to the capabilities that Broadcom’s dual-mode implementation will give OEMs for their product offerings, references to the level of adoption of the new Bluetooth low energy version of the Bluetooth technology specification, the effect of the Bluetooth low energy technology on the market for low energy devices, statements regarding the number of our products that will include Bluetooth low energy hardware and software innovations, and our continued participation in the standards process.. 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 statement.



Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with the BCM2044S Bluetooth headset silicon and software, but are not limited to:



• the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom’s Bluetooth technologies for wireless headset applications;

• trends in the wireless networking markets in various geographic regions, including seasonality in sales of consumer products into which our products are incorporated;

• the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order;

• the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales;

• 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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