Conexant's Semiconductor Solutions Power Huawei's Cable Set-Top Boxes.

New Huawei C2510 Receivers Slated for Deployment in China

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and the digital home, today announced that Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., a leader in providing next-generation telecommunications network solutions for operators around the world, will base its new digital video broadcast cable (DVB-C) InfoLink C2510 set-top boxes (STBs) on Conexant's CX2415X MPEG audio/video (A/V) broadcast decoder family. Huawei's InfoLink C2510 receivers will be deployed in provinces including Guangdong, Zhejiang, and Guizhou in the People's Republic of China.

"China is a major player in the international consumer electronics marketplace, and the country's transition to all-digital information and entertainment networks is now fueling significant domestic demand for products such as set-top boxes," said Lewis Brewster, executive vice president and general manager of Conexant's Broadband Media Processing business. "Our strong regional design presence can help leading-edge equipment vendors such as Huawei to quickly deliver products for this burgeoning new market."

"Conexant has been a valued supplier of broadband access products to Huawei for many years, and we are now expanding the scope of our business to include set-top box technologies," said Chen Chongjun, marketing director of Huawei's Fixed Network Terminals group. "Their highly integrated decoders provide us with a cost-effective, high-performance solution that will enable us to deliver top-quality receivers at a consumer-friendly price. The close proximity of Conexant's engineering teams in China is also important because it helps shorten our product development cycle and allows us to bring products to market more quickly and cost-effectively."

Conexant's CX2415X decoders provide consumer electronics manufacturers with a flexible, common platform that supports a broad array of applications in cable, satellite and terrestrial networks. The multi-purpose platform allows STB developers to leverage their hardware and software investments across multiple broadcast STBs and networks, and minimize their overall product development costs.

Conexant offers a comprehensive suite of digital STB components and system solutions for worldwide satellite, terrestrial, cable and IP entertainment broadcasting networks. The company's product offering includes silicon tuners, demodulators, MPEG audio and video decoders, and dial-up and DOCSIS modems. Complete reference designs that help manufacturers reduce cost and speed time-to-market are also available, bundled with a range of operating systems, middleware, drivers and development tools.

About Conexant

Conexant's innovative semiconductor solutions are driving broadband communications and digital home networks worldwide. The company has leveraged its expertise and leadership position in modem technologies to enable more Internet connections than all of its competitors combined, and continues to develop highly integrated silicon solutions for broadband data and media processing networks.

Key products include client-side xDSL and cable modem solutions, home network processors, broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, and dial-up modems. Conexant's suite of networking components includes a leadership portfolio of IEEE 802.11-compliant WLAN chipsets, software and reference designs, as well as solutions for applications based on HomePlug[R] and HomePNA[TM]. The company also offers a complete line of asymmetric and symmetric DSL central office solutions, which are used by service providers worldwide to deliver broadband data, voice, and video over copper telephone lines.

Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company with an annual revenue run-rate in excess of $1 billion. The company has approximately 2,800 employees worldwide, and is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. To learn more, please visit www.conexant.com.

About Huawei

Huawei Technologies is a leader in providing next generation telecommunications networks, and serves 28 of the world's top 50 operators, as well as over one billion users worldwide. The company is committed to providing innovative and customized products, services and solutions to create long-term value and potential growth for its customers.

Huawei's Fixed Network Terminal is one of the six product groups of Huawei, which including digital set-top box, access network terminals, video communication solutions, and digital home solutions, etc. As a world leading supplier of fixed network terminals, Huawei has doubled its market share each year for the past three consecutive years, and deployed its products in more than 60 countries with annual output of 10,000,000 sets. For further information, please visit http://www.huawei.com.

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