Broadcom's Quad-Core Broadband Processor Wins Award for 'Best High-Performance Embedded Processor of 2004'

Broadcom's Quad-Core Broadband Processor Wins Award for 'Best High-Performance Embedded Processor of 2004'

Microprocessor Report Gives Top Honors to the Industry's First 1GHz Superscalar Quad-Core MIPS64(TM) Processor

IRVINE, Calif., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ:BRCM), a global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, today announced that the Broadcom(R) BCM1480 quad-core broadband processor has won the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award for "Best High-Performance Embedded Processor of 2004." The BCM1480 is a high-performance, low power, integrated system-on-a-chip (SoC) multicore processor that is currently being designed into a number of data networking and communications platforms, as well as into security, storage, 3G wireless infrastructure and high-density computing applications. The BCM1480 is the second Broadcom processor to win this prestigious award; the BCM1250 dual-core broadband processor won top honors in 2002.

"Multicore Chips Rule in 2004" according to Microprocessor Report

In a year-end wrap-up article published in the January 2005 issue, Microprocessor Report underscored the importance of multicore integration in today's leading processor products. The report evaluated multicore offerings from several vendors, several of which are not sampling at present. As the first vendor to have shipped a dual-core 64-bit embedded processor, Broadcom now extends its industry leadership as the first vendor to sample a quad-core 64-bit embedded processor.

"By any measure, the BCM1480 is a formidable processor," said Tom R. Halfhill, Senior Analyst, Microprocessor Report. "It integrates an SB-1 core (still the only four-way superscalar MIPS64(TM) core) along with a DDR2 memory controller, 10 Gigabit I/O interfaces and a variety of other peripherals, all at a power consumption of less than 23 watts. The BCM1480 processor delivers superior power/performance for embedded applications and is a worthy award winner."

Broadcom's new family of 64-bit MIPS(R) broadband processors includes the BCM1255, BCM1280, BCM1455 and BCM1480. The BCM1255 dual-core processor and the BCM1455 quad-core processor each integrates a DDR2 (double data rate) memory controller as well as a single 64-bit PCI-X interface and four Gigabit Ethernet (GMII) interfaces. The BCM1280 dual-core and BCM1480 quad-core processors include all of these features plus three SPI-4/HyperTransport(TM) I/O ports for intelligent packet processing and routing, and multi-chip coherency support. All products are now sampling.

Since 1987, Microprocessor Report has been the leading technical publication covering PC processors, mobile processors, server processors, embedded processors, digital signal processors, system-logic chips and Intellectual Property processor cores. Microprocessor Report is published by In-Stat (formerly In-Stat/MDR).

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors. Our products enable the convergence of high- speed data, high definition video, voice and audio at home, in the office and on the go. Broadcom provides manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices with the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything(R).

Broadcom is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with annual revenue of more than $2 billion. The company is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with 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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Broadcom Trade Press Contact
Mike He
Public Relations Manager
+1-408-922-8083
mhe@broadcom.com

Broadcom Investor Relations Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Sr. Director, Investor Relations
+1-949-926-5663
andrewtp@broadcom.com

Broadcom Technical Contact
Anu Sundaresan
Director of Marketing, Broadband Processors
+1-408-922-7013
asund@broadcom.com


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