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Broadcom's Advanced Digital TV System-on-a-Chip Included in Haier Group's Family of Large-Sized LCD HDTVs

   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(r). www.broadcom.com. (PRNewsFoto/BROADCOM)

IRVINE, CA UNITED STATES
   Featuring Superior Video Quality and High Performance Processing in a
   Highly Integrated Design, Broadcom's Digital TV Solution Enables Haier
 Group to Expand Its HDTV Offerings at Affordable Price Points to Consumers

    LAS VEGAS, Jan. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 2007 International CES --
Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for
wired and wireless communications, today announced that its BCM3551 digital
TV system-on-a-chip (SoC) is now featured within the Haier Group's family
of liquid crystal display (LCD) high definition televisions (HDTVs)
introduced this week at the 2007 International CES show.
    The Broadcom(R) BCM3551 digital TV SoC provides high quality picture
and sound, and significantly decreases the number of chips required in a TV
system, making it more cost-effective for manufacturers to build
televisions that support both analog and digital reception. It also
integrates video processing functions that allow manufacturers to customize
the video output to a family of products, and is compatible with the
National Television Systems Committee (NTSC) analog standard, the North
American digital terrestrial or Advanced Television System Committee (ATSC)
digital standard, and the digital cable television standard. As a result,
the BCM3551 enables manufacturers to cost-effectively transition product
lines to affordable high quality analog/digital televisions in a variety of
size and display options, as the Haier Group accomplished in expanding its
family of large-sized LCD HDTVs, at price points affordable to consumers.
    "The LCD TV segment is projected to grow in size from over 40 million
units in 2006 to 90 million units in 2010, and continues to expand
significantly in the range of sizes available at affordable consumer
prices," said Michelle Abraham, Principal Analyst for In-Stat. "Enabling
high quality audio and video at cost effective price points is necessary to
the growth of the LCD TV market."
    "The quality and level of integration in the Broadcom BCM3551 digital
TV chip has enabled us to offer consumers a family of price-competitive
products in a range of sizes that all achieve superior video quality,"
said, Dr. Yu ZiDa, Vice President of the Haier Group. "Our LCD HDTV designs
required us to reduce our overall system cost, while increasing the
features and quality offered to consumers, and we have found these
requirements were met by the solutions offered to us by Broadcom."
    The Haier Group has incorporated the BCM3551 into its B Series, E
Series and S Series products. The B series is a WXGA (1366x768) LCD TV that
includes a USB 2.0 interface, two HDMI receivers and ATSC/NTSC reception
capability with MTS Stereo. The E Series is a Full HD (1080P) LCD TV that
includes a multi card reader, a USB 2.0 interface, two HDMI receivers, and
ATSC/NTSC reception capability with MTS Stereo. The S series is a WXGA
(1366x768) LCD TV that includes two HDMI receivers and ATSC/NTSC reception
capability with MTS Stereo.
    "Haier Group's family of LCD HDTVs demonstrates Broadcom's ability to
offer a comprehensive level of integration, combined with increased display
quality, to the digital TV market," said Stuart Thomson, Director of
Marketing Broadcom's Digital TV line of business. "The BCM3551 digital TV
SoC enabled Haier Group to leverage its design efforts across of range of
products, offering consumers a variety of affordable, high quality, feature
laden choices for their HDTV home entertainment."
    Broadcom's Broadband Communications Group
    Broadcom offers manufacturers a range of broadband communications and
consumer electronics SoC's that enable voice, video and data services over
residential wired and wireless networks. These highly integrated silicon
solutions continue to enable the most advanced system solutions on the
market, which include digital cable, satellite and IP set-top boxes and
media servers, broadband modems and residential gateways, high definition
and digital televisions, HD DVD and Blu-ray(TM) disc players, DVD recorders
and personal video recorders.
    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(R).Broadcom, one of the world's largest
fabless semiconductor companies with annual 2005 revenue of $2.67 billion ,
is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities
in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at
1-949-926-5000 or at http://www.broadcom.com.
    Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform
Act of 1995:
    All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release,
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    Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in
connection with digital TV products such as the BCM3551 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
including seasonality in sales of consumer television products into which
our products are incorporated, and possible disruption in commercial
activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict in the United
States and other locations; uncertainties as a result of the company's
previously-disclosed ongoing review of its practices in respect of
options/equity grants to employees, and the publicized more general review
of option grant practices throughout the technology and other industries by
public regulatory bodies, and potential changes in accounting and other
practices resulting therefrom; the rate at which our present and future
customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and products in the
markets for high performance digital media center applications; delays in
the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets; the
timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our
ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; the
gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order; our ability to scale
our operations in response to changes in demand for our existing products
and services or demand for new products requested by our customers;
intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and
other types of litigation risk; 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; 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; problems or delays that we may face in shifting
our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving
higher levels of design integration; 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; the availability and
pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test 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; 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.
    Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form
10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange
Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important
risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect
our business, results of operations and financial condition. The
forward-looking statements in this release speak only as of this date. We
undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking
statement for any reason.
    Broadcom(R), the pulse logo, Connecting everything(R), and the
Connecting everything logo are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation
and/or its affiliates in the United States certain other countries and/or
the EU. Blu- ray(TM) is a trademark of the Blu-ray Disc Association. Any
other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their
respective owners.
    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

    Broadcom Technical Contacts
    Stuart Thomson
    Director of Marketing, Digital TV
    949-926-6215
    sthomson@broadcom.com


SOURCE Broadcom Corporation; BRCM Broadband




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    CONTACT:
    Press, Laura Brandlin, Senior Director,
    Marketing Communications, +1-949-926-5108,
    lbrandlin@broadcom.com, or Investor, T. Peter Andrew, Vice
    President, Investor Relations, +1-949-926-5663,
    andrewtp@broadcom.com, or Technical, Stuart Thomson, Director of
    Marketing, Digital TV, +1-949-926-6215, sthomson@broadcom.com,
    all for Broadcom Corporation; BRCM Broadband