Broadcom CEO to Speak Tonight and Wednesday at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Semiconductor & Systems Conference.

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IRVINE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 6, 2001

Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM), the leading provider of integrated circuits enabling broadband communications, announced that Dr. Henry T. Nicholas III, its President and Chief Executive Officer, will be presenting at the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter Semiconductor & Systems Conference in Laguna Niguel, Calif. tonight and tomorrow. Both company presentations will be made available to the public via audio Webcast.

The first presentation is a "Fireside Chat" with Dr. Nicholas and Morgan Stanley's Senior Semiconductor Research Analyst, Mark Edelstone, at approximately 7:00 p.m. Pacific Time (10:00 p.m. Eastern Time) this evening.

The second presentation will be the regular company presentation at the conference at 9:00 a.m. Pacific Time (12:00 p.m. Eastern Time) on Wednesday, March 7th.

Both Webcasts may be accessed from Broadcom's Web site at www.broadcom.com/investor. The Webcasts will be recorded and available for replay through 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time on March 9.

About Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is the leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband digital transmission of voice, video, and data. Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, the company designs, develops and supplies system-on-a-chip solutions for broadband communications markets. Broadcom products enable communications for applications in cable set-top boxes, cable modems, high-speed local, metropolitan and wide area and optical networks, home networking, Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), carrier access, residential broadband gateways, direct broadcast satellite and terrestrial digital broadcast, digital subscriber lines (xDSL), wireless communications, System I/O(TM) server solutions and network processing. Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.

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