Broadcom's 54g™ Wireless LAN Technology Chosen by Apple

IRVINE, Calif., Oct 19, 2004 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions for broadband communications, today announced that Broadcom's 54g™ technology has been chosen by Apple for the company's wireless products. The latest Apple design utilizes Broadcom's highly integrated BCM4712 WLAN processor with embedded high performance wireless technology and robust security features enabling maximum portability and convenience for wireless users.

"The popularity of wireless networking in the home, at school, and thousands of public hot spots around the world, is fueling demand for convenient high-speed wireless access for a variety of consumer applications," said Mike Medina, Broadcom's Director of Technology and Product Planning. "Combining Broadcom's high-performance 54g™ technology with Apple's innovative consumer and professional products enhances consumers' wireless Internet experience."

"Apple is the leader in providing fast, affordable and easy-to-use 802.11g wireless networking to consumers," said David Moody, Apple's vice president of Mac Hardware Product Marketing. "Broadcom's 54g technology delivers the high-performance, secure wireless networking experience our customers expect."

54g™ technology is Broadcom's implementation of the IEEE 802.11g standard, the mainstream Wi-Fi® technology for homes, businesses and public hot spots. 54g™ technology provides the industry's best combination of speed, reach and security, and is compatible with the more than 100 million 802.11g and 802.11b devices installed to date.

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a leading provider of highly integrated semiconductor solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services. We design, develop and supply complete system-on-a-chip (SoC) solutions incorporating digital, analog, radio frequency (RF), microprocessor and digital signal processing (DSP) technologies, as well as related hardware and software system-level applications. Our diverse product portfolio addresses every major broadband communications market and includes solutions for digital cable and satellite set-top boxes; high definition television (HDTV); cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) modems and residential gateways; high-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking; home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial wireless communications; Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway and telephony systems; broadband network and security processors; and SystemI/O™ server solutions. These technologies and products support our core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.

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Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with our 54g™ wireless LAN products include, but are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and specific conditions in the markets we address, including the volatility in the technology sector and semiconductor industry, trends in the broadband communications markets in various geographic regions, and possible disruption in commercial activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict in the United States and other locations; the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and products in the markets for wireless networking applications; delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets; our ability to scale our operations in response to changes in demand for our products and services; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete, introduce, market and transition to volume production new products and technologies in a cost-effective and timely manner; the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order; 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; the timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non-qualification or non-certification; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets; changes in our product or customer mix; the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and other types of litigation risk; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry and assembly capacity and raw materials; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the risks of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and assembly facilities; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; the effectiveness of our expense and product cost control and reduction efforts; the risks and uncertainties associated with our international operations, particularly in light of recent events; the effects of natural disasters, public health emergencies, international conflicts and other events beyond our control; the level of orders received that can be shipped in a fiscal quarter; and other factors.

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Broadcom Trade Press Contact
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Sr. Communications Specialist
949-926-5734
hrael@broadcom.com

Broadcom Business Press Contact
Bill Blanning
Sr. Director, Corporate Communications
949-926-5555
blanning@broadcom.com

Broadcom Technical Contact
Jeff Abramowitz
Sr. Director, Marketing
408-543-3311
jeffa@broadcom.com

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

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