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Strategic Acquisitions

AMD DTV Business
Markham, Canada
A leading provider of DTV solutions, interactive platforms and panel processors. With this acquisition, Broadcom expands its tier one customer base while enhancing and strengthening its existing portfolio of innovative DTV system solutions, resulting in a complete product line that covers all segments of the DTV market while delivering the scale and focus needed to forge a market-leading DTV business.
August 2008
Sunext Design, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
A leading provider of optical drive technologies. With this acquisition, Broadcom is able to integrate Sunext Design's single-chip front-end technology with Broadcom's industry leading system-on-a-chip (SoC) back-end Blu-ray Disc® platform, resulting in a strengthened integration roadmap that will drive the cost of these devices down to levels that enable widespread consumer adoption of high definition optical disc players and recorders.
March 2008
Global Locate, Inc.
San Jose, CA
A leading provider of GPS semiconductor products and software for mobile phones, personal navigation devices and networks. By combining Global Locate's GPS technology with Broadcom's leading Bluetooth, Wi-Fi®, cellular and other mobile technologies will provide leading handset makers with wireless connectivity solutions that add significant value to feature and smart phone products.
June 2007
Octalica, Inc.
Newton Centre, MA
A leading developer of networking technologies based on the MoCA™ (Multimedia over Coax Alliance) standard, which enables distribution of high quality digital multimedia content throughout the home over existing coaxial cable. With this acquisition, Broadcom is adding MoCA to the multiple other technologies it offers to address end users' connectivity needs worldwide for the distribution of digital content throughout the home, supplementing its industry leading Wi-Fi®, Ethernet, and Bluetooth® products, among others.
May 2007
LVL7 Systems, Inc.
Morrisville, NC
A leading developer of production-ready networking software that enables communication system manufacturers to reduce development costs and deliver IP/Ethernet products to market faster. By combining LVL7's software expertise with Broadcom's industry-leading networking products, Broadcom will be able to satisfy the growing demand for integrated hardware and software solutions and enable customers to accelerate time to market and reduce system cost
November 2006
Sandburst Corporation
Andover, MA
A leading provider of semiconductor solutions for scalable packet switching and routing systems-on-a-chip (SoCs) that are deployed in enterprise core and metropolitan Ethernet networks. By combining Broadcom's industry-leading StrataXGS® III Ethernet switch silicon solutions with Sandburst's innovative technology and engineering teams, Broadcom will be able to offer a complete portfolio of end-to-end Ethernet switch solutions.
January 2006
Athena Semiconductors, Inc.
Fremont, CA
A leading developer of mobile digital television tuner and low-power Wi-Fi® technologies. By combining Athena's DVB-H tuner and Wi-Fi design capabilities with Broadcom's mobile multimedia technology for H.264 decoding and broad portfolio of wireless solutions, Broadcom is now uniquely suited to provide all the pieces required by developers of next generation mobile devices.
October 2005
Siliquent Technologies, Inc.
Mountain View, CA
A developer of 10 Gigabit Ethernet network interface controllers with advanced Ethernet processing technology for server networking, network storage and clustering applications. By pairing Siliquent's technology with Broadcom's proven expertise in Gigabit Ethernet and Fast Ethernet transceivers and switching solutions, Broadcom accelerates the delivery of 10GbE converged-NICs (C-NICs) for server LAN-on-motherboard applications.
July 2005
Zeevo, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
A leading provider of semiconductor solutions for Bluetooth® wireless headset products. By combining Broadcom's existing strengths, customer relationships, presence in complementary markets, and proven Bluetooth solutions with Zeevo's technology and innovative solutions, Broadcom's customers will benefit from a stronger product portfolio, optimized total solutions, enhanced support and a more comprehensive roadmap.
March 2005
Alliant Networks, Inc.
Sunnyvale, CA
A provider of cellular gateway products that enable both wireless networking and internet connectivity over local cellular networks. By combining Alliant's expertise in wireless technologies with our already diverse product portfolio, Broadcom has further strengthened its technology expertise in the mobile and wireless market.
February 2005
Alphamosaic, Ltd.
Cambridge, UK
A leading developer of advanced mobile imaging, multimedia and 3D graphics technology optimized for use in cellphones and other mobile devices. Through this acquisition of Alphamosaic and its VideoCore® technology, Broadcom has added an expertise and technology to provide complete reference designs for next generation, feature-rich multimedia mobile phone platforms.
September 2004
Zyray Wireless, Inc.
San Diego, CA
A leading developer of baseband co-processors addressing WCDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) mobile devices. Pairing Zyray's technology with Broadcom's EDGE/GPRS/GSM and GPRS/GSM baseband processors will enable two-chip WCDMA multi-mode phones in the near term and provides the potential for future solutions with enhanced integration.
June 2004
WIDCOMM, Inc.
San Diego, CA
A leading provider of software solutions for Bluetooth® wireless products. The combination of WIDCOMM's industry-leading software and Broadcom's leading Bluetooth semiconductor portfolio enables Broadcom to provide the industry's most complete and optimized system solutions for cable-free communications between mobile phones, headsets, handheld computers, mice and keyboards, and multiple other products.
April 2004
Sand Video, Inc.
Andover, MA
A leader in advanced video compression technology for a broad range of consumer digital video applications. The combination of technologies and products from Broadcom and Sand Video will enable Broadcom's customers to bring to market next-generation video solutions for a range of products, including digital TVs, enhanced cable and satellite TV set-top boxes, personal video recorders (PVRs), high definition DVD recorders and players, Internet Protocol (IP) set-top boxes, and video conferencing.
April 2004
M-Stream Inc.
Kfar-Saba, Israel
A supplier of solutions for improved cellular receptions of voice, video, music and multimedia. With this acquisition, Broadcom adds M-stream's performance enhancements to its existing mobile and wireless portfolio.
April 2004
RAIDCore, Inc.
Nashua, NH
A provider of full-featured enterprise-class RAID software to the server storage market. The acquisition of RAIDCore and its full-featured, enterprise-class RAID software stack will enable Broadcom to offer a unique and complete set of RAID solutions. By combining Broadcom silicon and RAIDCore software we are able to develop highly integrated RAID-on-chip (ROC) and RAID-on-motherboard (ROM) solutions for entry-level and mid-range server applications.
January 2004
Gadzoox Networks, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
A leading provider of field proven, open-standards-based storage area networking technology. By acquiring a substantial portion of Gadzoox Network's assets, Broadcom broadened its product portfolio in storage area networking with a family of standard-based 1-, 2- and 10- Gigabit Fibre Channel chips and firmware.
March 2003
Mobilink Telecom, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
A leading supplier of chipsets and reference designs for use in cellular phones, cellular modem cards and wireless PDAs. Through this acquisition we obtained Mobilink's single-chip baseband processors with MCU, DSP and mixed signal functionality targeted to the GSM and GPRS mobile phone markets, as well as its platform solution, which integrated complete mobile phone functionality with MMI software and multimedia features.
May 2002
Kimalink
El Segundo, CA
A developer of integrated circuits for wireless data communications and future mobile devices. The acquisition of Kimalink expanded Broadcom's cellular data portfolio and strengthened Broadcom's position within the mobile and wireless markets.
July 2001
PortaTec Corporation
Quebec, B.C.
A developer of next generation mobile devices. By combining PortaTec's mobile solutions with Broadcom's existing family of mobile products, Broadcom's customers will benefit from a broad product portfolio and complete solutions for next generation mobile devices.
July 2001
ServerWorks Corporation
Santa Clara, CA
An independent supplier of high-performance system input/output (I/O) integrated circuits for servers, workstations and storage platforms. ServerWorks™ SystemI/O™ silicon solutions act as the essential conduits for delivering high-bandwidth data in and out of servers, and coordinating all I/O transactions within the server platform including between external I/O, the main system memory, and the CPUs.
January 2001
VisionTech, Ltd.
Herzliya, Israel
A leading supplier of digital/audio MPEG-2 compression and decompression chips enabling personal video recording (PVR), interactive videoconferencing, and Internet Protocol (IP) video streaming for the consumer electronics market. The By combining Broadcom's family of interactive-TV video decoder devices with VisionTech's MPEG-2 single-chip compression technology, we have created the industry's most advanced and comprehensive solution for next generation PVR-enabled set-top boxes.
January 2001
SiByte, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA
A developer of high-performance microprocessor solutions for broadband networking. SiByte's high-performance network processors complemented Broadcom's Internet Protocol (IP) switches, communications digital signal processors, IP security solutions and physical layer transmission products, and have enabled us to create the industry's most comprehensive portfolio of products for the networking and Internet infrastructure markets.
December 2000
Allayer Communications
San Jose, CA
A developer of high-performance enterprise and optical networking communications chips. By adding Allayer's processor expertise to our product portfolio, Broadcom was able to build upon its leadership in the delivery of broadband solutions for networking services spanning, local, metropolitan and wide area network.
December 2000
Element 14, Inc.
Cambridge, UK
A leading developer of high port density, low-power DSL chipsets, software and communications processor technology. By adding a full range of DSL expertise to Broadcom's local, metropolitan and wide area network, voice, video and home networking capabilities, we enhanced our leadership in the delivery of broadband solutions for all major telephony infrastructure, enterprise and home markets.
November 2000
Silicon Spice Inc.
San Jose, CA
A developer of innovative communications processor technology, software, and development tools for high-density voice, fax and data packet transmission over WANs. Combined with the Broadcom xChange™ VoIP software, Silicon Spice's technology enabled Broadcom to offer very high-density packet telephony silicon and software solutions to equipment manufacturers of carrier gateways, access gateways and remote access concentrators.
October 2000
NewPort Communications
Irvine, CA
A supplier of mixed-signal integrated circuits for the high-speed communications infrastructure market. NewPort Communications' optical communication technology extended Broadcom's product offering into the Synchronous Optical Network/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (SONET/SDH) and 10-Gigabit Ethernet network space, enabling us to offer optical communication OEMs and laser module suppliers with a broad portfolio of optical and WAN infrastructure products.
October 2000
PICCO-Puyallup Integrated Circuit Company
Seattle, WA
A provider of integrated circuit design including full chip designs and embedded macro blocks for microprocessors, system-on-a-chip and ASIC designs. Through the acquisition of PICCO-Puyallup, Broadcom increased its ability to offer customers custom silicon design capabilities that integrate their own intellectual property with Broadcom's propriety intellectual property cores.
August 2000
Innovent Systems
El Segundo, CA
A pioneer in the development and commercial integration of radio frequency (RF) integrated circuits for short-range wireless data communications. Innovent's Blutonium® family of Bluetooth® transceivers and systems helped extend Broadcom's communications leadership position into the wireless space, specifically focused at personal area networks (PANs) and local area networks (LANs).
July 2000
Pivotal Technologies
Pasadena, CA
A developer of high-performance digital visual interface (DVI) solutions for both wired and wireless environments. By integrating Pivotal's technology with Broadcom's cable-TV technologies, Broadcom was able to develop silicon solutions that digitally transmit secure, high quality graphics and video content from the set-top box or PC to digital cable TV, HDTV, CRT and flat panel displays.
June 2000
BlueSteel Networks
Mountain View, CA
A developer of high-performance Internet security processors for e-commerce and virtual private networking (VPN) applications. BlueSteel Network's technology provided Broadcom with a scalable family of security processors and cores, with performance up to one gigabit per second and beyond, for VPN products and could also be integrated into Broadcom's "system-on-a-chip" devices.
March 2000
Stellar Semiconductor
San Jose, CA
A developer of 3D graphics technology for set-top boxes and digital TVs. The acquisition of Stellar broadened Broadcom's graphics and video technology offering with a patented 3D visual processing architecture that optimizes the use of available memory while providing the highest quality image/screen resolution for 3D gaming applications on set-top boxes and televisions and photo-realistic imaging on handheld Internet devices.
March 2000
Digital Furnace
Atlanta, GA
A developer of communication algorithms and software for broadband networks. Digital Furnace's Propane™ software solution enabled Broadcom to triple the upstream bandwidth capacity of its DOCSIS™ cable modem chipsets, which will enable cable operators to cost effectively support new interactive services in the residential and business markets.
March 2000
AltoCom
Mountain View, CA
A provider of complete software data/fax modem implementations for general purpose embedded processors, PC CPUs and digital signal processors (DSPs). Broadcom paired AltoCom's software modem with its home networking technology to produce an integrated V.90 and home networking solution for seamlessly accessing and sharing Internet content throughout the home over the existing telephone line.
August 1999
HotHaus Technologies
Vancouver, B.C.
A developer of OpenVoIP™ embedded communications software that enables the transmission of digital voice, fax and data packets over data networks, including the Internet. HotHaus' DSP software expertise enabled Broadcom to develop silicon hardware cores with embedded DSP software that addresses the delivery of voice over the broadband packet-switched network.
August 1999
Armedia
Bangalore, India
A developer of advanced semiconductor products for digital video content and distribution applications. Armedia expandedBroadcom's broadband communications expertise, enabling us to incorporate advanced video decoding technology into "system-on-a-chip" devices for the interactive set-top box and cable modem markets.
June 1999
Epigram
Sunnyvale, CA
A developer of advanced silicon technology for high-speed home networking applications. Through this transaction, Broadcom acquired Epigram's advanced iLine10 family of semiconductors, which enables consumers to use their in-home telephone wire to connect PCs, entertainment devices and other intelligent appliances together throughout the home for distributing and sharing broadband services and PC-based peripheral equipment, and InsideLine™ technology, which provided Broadcom with an end-to-end broadband silicon solution that enabled Broadcom to develop "system-on-a-chip" gateway solutions for the delivery of digital voice, video and data services into the home and small office.
June 1999
Maverick Networks
San Jose, CA
A developer of highly integrated silicon for multi-layer switching equipment in enterprise networking applications. Maverick's technology broadened our silicon product offering, enabling Broadcom to develop multi-layer switch products that address the unification of voice, video and data services across the LAN and WAN.
June 1999

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