Mobile Platform aids designing of cellular handsets.

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CellAirity(TM) modular platform provides 2G and 3G cellular connectivity, multimedia acceleration, and support for Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi® protocols. Software consists of communications protocol stack, modular applications framework, and set of pre-integrated messaging, web access, games, and multimedia and connectivity applications. Hardware is based on GPRS, EDGE, WEDGE, and HSDPA baseband processors. Platform also includes multimedia hardware accelerators and audio/video codecs.



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Broadcom Delivers New CellAirity(TM) Mobile Platform



Pre-Integrated, Silicon-Plus-Software Platform Accelerates Low-Cost 2G and 3G Handsets with Rich Multimedia

BARCELONA, Spain, 3GSM World Congress, Feb. 13 / -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced its new CellAirity(TM) mobile platform to enable advanced, next generation cellular handsets. CellAirity is a modular software and hardware platform that provides best-in-class solutions for all of the critical components required for today's advanced mobile devices, including feature-rich functionality, 2G and 3G cellular connectivity, multimedia acceleration, and support for both Bluetooth® and Wi-Fi® protocols.

The Broadcom® CellAirity platform addresses a wide range of mobile applications, from entry level 2G voice handsets to feature-rich 3G handsets that offer advanced voice applications, video recording/playback, video telephony and packet-based services. This platform is delivered to the market at a critical transition point when many cellular service providers are migrating 2G users to advanced 3G HSDPA/WCDMA and EDGE networks. This migration will offer consumers more advanced features and data services, which are expected to drive market growth and increased operator revenues. By developing on the CellAirity platform, manufacturers of next generation connected devices can bring their products to market quickly, and with the assurance that the components implemented are among the most advanced in the industry.

"The new generation of connected handsets and other devices is characterized by the convergence of advanced voice, data, audio and video functionality" said Yossi Cohen, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom's Mobile Platforms Group. "With the broadest portfolio of leading mobile hardware and software products in the industry, Broadcom is uniquely positioned to offer an all-inclusive platform for the next generation of advanced mobile devices."

Modular Architecture Means Maximum Flexibility

The CellAirity platform is based on proven and field-tested hardware and software components. Customers can begin their designs with a handset reference design that includes a Broadcom cellular baseband processor, and then select from a variety of industry-leading Broadcom solutions, including advanced multimedia processors, and Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and Voice over IP (VoIP) solutions. CellAirity software consists of a common carrier approved communications protocol stack, a modular applications framework, and a set of pre-integrated messaging, web access, games, multimedia and connectivity applications. The ability to easily add peripheral hardware functionality and software applications enables further versatility, allowing handset designers to adopt a modular platform approach to create a family of handsets spanning features and price points, all developed on a common, field-proven platform.

"Handset makers will be increasingly interested in vendors who can offer a 'complete solution' for next generation devices, which will feature an ever widening array of features and applications," said Mario Morales, Vice President of Semiconductor Research at IDC. "The availability of solutions such as the Broadcom's CellAirity platform can help OEMs to rapidly include these new features in their advanced handsets."

CellAirity Platform Details

The CellAirity platform hardware is based on Broadcom GPRS, EDGE, WEDGE and HSDPA baseband processors. Optional hardware includes the BCM2705 advanced multimedia processor, the BCM1161 VoIP processor, and market-leading Broadcom single-chip Bluetooth and Wi-Fi solutions, the BCM2045 and BCM4318e, respectively.

CellAirity software includes a common dual-mode communications protocol stack that has been extensively field and carrier tested across multiple 2G and 3G networks. Broadcom's EDGE solution has been operational in commercial networks for over two years and is carrier certified in over fifteen EDGE networks worldwide. The upgraded dual-mode WEDGE stack passes current GCF and PTCRB requirements, as well as interoperability testing by the major suppliers of 3G networking equipment.

The CellAirity platform also includes multimedia hardware accelerators, an extensive array of audio and video codecs, and a scalable and modular applications software framework designed specifically for devices with limited bandwidth and memory. In addition to offering an internationalized platform with localizable text and multi language support, the framework enables designers to take advantage of pre-integrated clients and also allows for rapid, independent development of new applications.

Availability

Broadcom will be demonstrating the CellAirity mobile platform at the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 13 to 16, 2006. Visit Broadcom's booth in the Fira de Barcelona in Hall 1, stand C78. The various components associated with the CellAirity platform are shipping in production quantities and sampling to customers.

Broadcom 3GSM Press Conference

Broadcom will host a press conference for media and analysts in conjunction with the 3GSM World Congress in Barcelona, Spain on February 14, 2006 from 10:00 to 11:00 CET. Broadcom's President and Chief Executive Officer, Scott McGregor, and co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer, Henry Samueli, along with other mobile and wireless executives, will introduce new technologies and products and provide a new real-world vision for the direction of next-generation mobile devices. To register for the press conference (media and analysts only) please contact 3GSM@broadcom.com.

The press conference will be made available to the public via audio webcast. To listen to the webcast, visit the Broadcom website at www.broadcom.com/investors. The webcast will be recorded and available until 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on Tuesday, February 28, 2006.

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Our products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. Broadcom provides 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, one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies with annual revenue of more than $2.5 billion, is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.

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