Broadcom Analyst Day Event Reminder

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), a global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors, will hold its annual Analyst Day event tomorrow, Wednesday, November 9, 2005 in Santa Clara, California. Presentations from company executives will begin at 8:00 a.m. (Pacific time) and continue until approximately 1:30 p.m. Speakers at the Analyst Day event will include Scott McGregor, Broadcom's President and CEO; Dr. Henry Samueli, Co-Founder, Chairman of the Board and Chief Technical Officer; and Bill Ruehle, Chief Financial Officer, as well as the senior vice presidents from each of the company's four business units and the key executive from the manufacturing operation. A series of presentations will highlight Broadcom's numerous growth opportunities, broad communications intellectual property portfolio and financial metrics. These large and growing end-market opportunities, when combined with the company's diverse intellectual property portfolio and a track record of superior execution, strategically position Broadcom to capitalize on its mission to be the leading communications semiconductor company. Today, the challenge for communications technology is to achieve a seamless flow of information between wired and wireless solutions. Some of Broadcom's core strengths lie in the company's intellectual property portfolio and its track record for superior execution, both of which allow it to bring these converged solutions to market in a timely manner. The product demonstrations during the Analyst Day event will showcase the latest innovations from Broadcom, illustrating how these technologies come together to create the digital home, home office and corporate office. The product demonstrations at the 2005 Analyst Day will include technologies and solutions from Broadcom's four business units including: * Broadband Communications: Highlighting the demonstration of voice, video and data using an IP set-top box and wired and wireless gateway solutions over an ADSL2+ or VDSL2 network along with Broadcom(R) digital television solutions. * Enterprise Computing: Showcasing next-generation converged server networking, network storage and clustering applications over a single converged network interface card (C-NIC). The demonstrations will also include Broadcom's server I/O solutions based on AMD Opteron(R) and storage RAID-on-chip solutions featuring SAS, SATA and PCI Express(R). * Mobile & Wireless: Featuring a full complement of wireless technology solutions from one company, this demonstration will include Bluetooth(R) applications, mobile multimedia, cellular baseband and wireless LAN solutions. Highlights will also include wired and wireless voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and personal network attached storage-on-a-chip (NASoC) solutions. * Networking Infrastructure: Showcasing the latest in network intelligence, management, security, optical networking and switching applications. Broadcom will broadcast the Analyst Day presentations via webcast. To listen to the webcast or to view the financial or other statistical information to be discussed during the presentations, including the information required by SEC Regulation G, please visit the Investors section of the Broadcom website at http://www.broadcom.com/investors. The webcast will be recorded and available until 5:00 p.m. (Pacific time) on Wednesday, November 23, 2005. 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 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 and in the company's presentations at its 2005 Analyst Day, 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. 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 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, including seasonality in sales of consumer 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; 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; 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; the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom's technologies and products in our target markets; delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in those markets; 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; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets; the quality of our products and any remediation costs; our dependence on a few significant customers for a substantial portion of our revenue; 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; 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 timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non-qualification or non-certification; changes in our product or customer mix; the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; our ability to develop new sources of revenue to replace lost revenue from our declining Intel processor-based server chipset business; 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 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 and in the company's presentations at its 2005 Analyst Day speak only as of the date they are made. 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. AMD Opteron(R) is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Bluetooth(R) is a trademark of the Bluetooth SIG. PCI Express(R) is a registered trademark of the PCI-SIG. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners. Media Contact Bill Blanning Vice President, Public Relations 949-926-5555 blanning@broadcom.com Broadcom Investor Relations Contact T. Peter Andrew Sr. Director, Investor Relations 949-926-5663 andrewtp@broadcom.com

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