IRVINE, Calif., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced its next generation Persona(TM) Internet protocol (IP) communications platform for multimedia connected consumer devices. The Persona platform, consisting of the Broadcom® BCM11211 communications processor and the Broadcom BCM11181 multimedia processor, enables full-featured multimedia applications and advanced capabilities such as 3D graphics and a superior audio experience. By combining lifestyle benefits, such as home energy/automation control and monitoring, reliable high resolution video conferencing, and seamless digital video recorder (DVR) and set-top box (STB) integration into an always-on, always-connected platform, Broadcom is poised to supply products in the emerging connected home device (fourth screen) segment.

Highlights/Key Facts:

• According to ABI Research(1), as the digital home evolves and services expand, the fourth screen market will slowly take shape. The features available to the three screens (TV, PC, and mobile) are quickly melding and ultimately will lead to a relatively homogenous ecosystem. As the number of households with home networks grows, access to Internet content and services will continue to expand.
• Broadcom is addressing the growing consumer demand for a connected home network by enabling 'always on, always connected' IP communications devices. This single portable device will act as an information, communication and entertainment portal of the connected home, proliferating into the much anticipated 'fourth screen'.
• The key differentiator between next generation IP communications connected devices and today's products are the inclusion of lifestyle benefits that allow for the sharing of information, communication and entertainment. Broadcom enables the consumer to administer, control and stream DVR and STB content directly to this device, providing a new means for interacting with a DVR/STB, and allowing the device's mobility to be utilized anywhere within the home. With this approach, information may be readily available, with access to online content as well as high resolution and high quality video phone capabilities that stay connected. Other examples of lifestyle benefits include:
  • Information capabilities - (i.e. full web browser, widgets, digital picture frame, STB menu browsing, home monitoring).
  • Communication/Connectivity capabilities - (i.e. VoIP, Wi-Fi®, video conferencing, Bluetooth®, GPS, location based services).
  • Entertainment capabilities - (i.e. next generation remote control, content portability, gaming).
• The new Persona consumer IP communications multimedia platform includes the BCM11211 communications processor and the BCM11181 multimedia processor featuring Broadcom's proven core voice and applications processing technology.
  • The BCM11211 high performance RISC and DSP processor cores enable advanced end user productivity applications such as rich GUI/web browsers and multimedia content. Its advanced peripheral support hosts SDIO for memory cards, dual USB ports to enable external media devices, as well as PC connectivity. The BCM11211 seamlessly connects to Broadcom's industry-leading Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and GPS connectivity products, allowing OEMs to efficiently add best-in-class wireless technologies and expanded functionality for next generation wireless products.
  • Designed for advanced mobile multimedia products, the BCM11181 multimedia processor is power-efficient and optimized for images, video capture and playback, and 3D graphics.
• The Persona platform runs the Broadcom MediaxChange(TM) Linux®-based software, which is the latest voice, video and multimedia version of the field proven Broadcom PhonexChange(TM) software. Broadcom PhonexChange is a flexible software platform used across all Broadcom IP phone communication solutions, allowing customers to leverage a common software code base across product portfolios, which in turn, minimizes engineering development resources and time-to-market. It also includes built-in support for Broadcom's Bluetooth, GPS, and Wi-Fi solutions. Broadcom MediaxChange optionally supports the Qt Applications development framework or Google Android mobile operating system.
• The software suite includes Broadcom's high fidelity SmartAudio® voice enhancement technology. SmartAudio is based on Broadcom's innovative audio clarity technology that significantly improves audio quality over IP networks. It includes the company's high quality acoustic echo cancellation, advanced jitter buffer, high definition voice speech technologies and packet loss concealment (PLC) technology which compensates for lost data packets while ensuring the delivery of clear digital voice communications.

Supporting Quotes:

Martyn Humphries, Vice President & General Manager, Broadcom's VoIP line of business

"Broadcom is dedicated to connecting everything and the introduction of our next generation Persona IP communications multimedia platform is a testament of that. The ability to enable always on, always connected devices for the home opens up the realm of possibility for the distribution and consumption of content, whether it be informative, communicative or for entertainment purposes. These next generation devices are going to change the way that consumers look at whole-home connectivity."

Subscribe to RSS Feed:

Broadcom Wireless Connectivity Group

http://bit.ly/4BDSLs

Other Supporting Resources:

Press Graphic

http://bit.ly/7JL1pZ

Product Page - BCM11211

http://bit.ly/5cZfLe

Product Page - BCM11181

http://bit.ly/8WZRE2

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a major technology innovator and global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. We provide 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 is one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies, with 2008 revenue of $4.66 billion, and holds over 3,650 U.S. and over 1,450 foreign patents, more than 7,750 additional pending patent applications, and one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless transmission of voice, video, data and multimedia.

A FORTUNE 500® company, Broadcom 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 www.broadcom.com.

Cautions regarding Forward Looking Statements:

All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and business, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as "anticipates," "expects," "intends," "plans," "predicts," "believes," "seeks," "estimates," "may," "will," "should," "would," "could," "potential," "continue," "ongoing," similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words. Examples of such forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to, the demand for whole-home connectivity and our position in that market. These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

Important factors that may cause such a difference for Broadcom in connection with the Bluetooth headset silicon and software, but are not limited to:

• The rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and products in the markets;
• Delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets;
• The gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order;
• 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 timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets; and
• The timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non-qualification or non-certification.

Additional factors that may cause Broadcom's actual results to differ materially from those expressed in forward-looking statements include, but are not limited to the list that can be found at http://www.broadcom.com/press/additional_risk_factors/Q42009.php.

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, except as required by law.

Broadcom, the pulse logo, Connecting everything, the Connecting everything logo SmartAudio, VideoCore, Persona(TM) Broadcom PhonexChange(TM) and Broadcom MediaxChange(TM) are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

(1) ABI Research Connected Home Devices (Fourth Screen) Report, 2009

    Trade Press                     Investor Relations
    Jessica Ingraham                T. Peter Andrew
    Public Relations Representative Vice President, Corporate Communications
    949-926-8008                    949-926-5663
    jessicai@broadcom.com           andrewtp@broadcom.com

SOURCE Broadcom Corporation; BRCM Mobile & Wireless