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Broadcom 2011 $7.4B $1.8B $6.8B ANNUAL REPORT Broadcom 2011 $7.4B $1.8B $6.8B Home $1.4B ~28% Hand ~47% Infrastructure ~22% 8% Y/Y 34% Y/Y 2010 2011 All Other ~3% 2010 2011 Net Revenue Growth Revenue Mix Cash Flow From Operations Broadcom’s innovative products and technologies enable people to connect – locally and globally – at home, at the office and on the move. Connecting everything® About Broadcom Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM), a FORTUNE 500® company, is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom® products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a- chip (SoC) and embedded software solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by Connecting everything®. BROADCOM CORPORATION 2011 ANNUAL REPORT PAGE 1 To Our Shareholders 2011 marked a milestone in Broadcom’s history as we celebrated the company’s 20th anniversary. The occasion served as a touchstone to celebrate the engineering innovation that has transformed the communications industry and reflects on how far we’ve come as a company, and as an industry. Incredibly, we believe 99.98% of all Internet traffic With all three business units delivering strong today passes through at least one Broadcom chip. performance, annual product revenue rose almost Although our impact on the industry is already 9% in 2011 year-over-year. That is in contrast to immense, our eyes are locked upon what the next our overall industry, which grew only in the low 20 years has in store and how we can continue to single digits. Today, we sell roughly 500 million serve as a catalyst for industry innovation. devices per quarter. With the help of diligent cost controls, we achieved non-GAAP product operating In 2011, Broadcom's innovative and highly margins of nearly 21%1, in the center of our target integrated products, coupled with solid execution, range. Both cash flow from operations as well enabled us to outpace competitors and outgrow as total cash and marketable securities balances the industry. We did so while meeting our profitability set new annual records, at $1.8 billion and $5.2 objectives and delivering an increased dividend to billion, respectively. shareholders. We also nearly doubled the amount of capital returned to shareholders via share Broadcom’s R&D scale and breadth of complete repurchases and dividends – both indicators of system solutions have enabled us to consistently our financial strength and optimism. gain market share, deliver solid profitability, reinvest in our businesses and return more capital to shareholders. Today, we believe 99.98% of all Although our impact on the Internet traffic touches Broadcom industry is already immense, technology. our eyes are locked upon what the next 20 years has in store and how we can 99.98% continue to serve as a catalyst for industry innovation. 1 See www.broadcom.com/investors for a reconciliation of GAAP to non-GAAP product operating margin. BROADCOM CORPORATION 2011 ANNUAL REPORT PAGE 2 At Broadcom, we like to say we “engineer the impossible” for our customers. Last year, Broadcom spent nearly $2 billion on Home: R&D and ranked an enviable 17th among American Broadband Communications Group corporations in total U.S. patent awards. But for us, being a technology innovator means more than sim- In 2011, Broadcom introduced significant new ply adding new shelves to our patent library (which product families that contribute to the next incidentally, with the recent acquisition of NetLogic generation of home networks and provide the Microsystems, Inc., is now approaching 16,800 basis for continued industry leadership. Our patents and applications). Much more important is breakthrough Full Band Capture technology, in our ability to turn that intellectual property into which a single Broadcom chip can digitize the commercially successful products. Our engineers contents of an entire TV spectrum for either work closely with our manufacturing partners to cable or satellite, was greeted enthusiastically by design and deliver complete solutions to meet the customers, investors and the press following its unique demands of the communications markets. introduction. By eliminating the need for separate tuners for every channel, Full Band Capture Our chips are found in some of the world's best significantly decreases the cost of a set-top box. It known devices – including products by Apple, also allows video content providers to more closely Cisco, Dell, Huawei and Samsung to name a few. integrate their offerings with those delivered via the They count on us to keep them ahead of the Web. There's an additional advantage for consumers technology curve with complete families of highly in that Full Band Capture enables channel-switching integrated products that deliver compelling price, to occur virtually instantaneously, rather than with the performance and power efficiency. multi-second delay that can frustrate TV viewers. At Broadcom, we like to say we "engineer the Fiber optics may be the networking technology impossible" for our customers. And we do it of tomorrow, but most of today's home video is every day. The following are 2011 and early 2012 delivered via already-installed copper coaxial cable. highlights from our three business groups. Here again Broadcom continues to innovate, bringing to market new SoC products that double SUSTAINED RECORD OF INTELLECTUAL 15,900 PROPERTY INNOVATION Broadcom introduced 14,600 significant new product families IP Portfolio Strength as Ranked by IEEE: 13,150 that contribute to the next 5th in the semiconductor industry 12,100 generation of home networks #1 among fabless semiconductor companies 7,350 10,893 and provide the basis for Source: 2011 IEEE Spectrum Patent Power Scorecard 7,800 continued industry leadership. 7,800 U.S. and Foreign Patents: 8,225 I Patents 7,600 I Applications 6,776 7,400 4,844 5,600 5,149 8,550 3,225 6,800 2,326 4,020 5,350 4,500 1,132 2,769 3,493 2,071 2,625 1,627 1,059 824 73 255 456 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 BROADCOM CORPORATION 2011 ANNUAL REPORT PAGE 3 Our wireless connectivity combo chips are a common element in the majority of smartphones. the capacity of existing home coax networks. Our Hand: Multimedia over Coax Alliance (MoCA) 2.0 family Mobile and Wireless Group of integrated devices lets video operators bring higher quality video to more rooms in the home We continue to fortify our position in mobile and while drawing much less power. wireless technologies, including cellular SoCs, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, mobile application processors and We’re also changing TV in other ways. Our set-top graphics, Global Positioning Systems (GPS/GNSS) box chipsets provide advanced graphics and and Near Field Communication (NFC) products. high-performance processing, enabling the interface Our products can be found in just about to your TV to be as engaging as the most sophisti- every consumer electronics category including cated website or video game. In modems, carriers smartphones, tablets, PCs, TVs, set-top boxes, are designing the devices to do much more than games, routers and network gateways. provide simple broadband connections. New modems will act more like "gateway" devices, with With accelerating popularity in all parts of the built-in connectivity, wireless networking, video world, smartphones continue to be a key strategic and even telephony. Those features, among others, opportunity for Broadcom. Our wireless connectivity will be fully-supported in Broadcom's silicon. combo chips are a common element in a majority of smartphones. In classic Broadcom tradition, The global market for broadband is extraordinarily we are taking advantage of this scale and market diverse. Different parts of the world are on a myriad knowledge, along with our vast IP portfolio, to of technology paths; within each county, there are deliver increasingly integrated products that give often six or eight major competitors vying for early our customers virtually everything needed to bring advantage. Only a company of Broadcom's size advanced smartphones to market. and scale can expect to be fully engaged with that global market. Our suite of DOCSIS® products, which allow cable TV operators to transmit both data and video, is making substantial headway in China, complementing its already strong position in U.S. and European markets. Smartphones continue to be a key strategic opportunity for Broadcom. BROADCOM CORPORATION 2011 ANNUAL REPORT PAGE 4 Broadcom is leading the industry in its 5G WiFi rollout. Our cellular SoC products integrate – on a single Infrastructure: chip – one or more application processors, graphics, Infrastructure & Networking Group video, cellular baseband, and other capabilities that previously required half a dozen or more Among our enterprise data center customers, separate integrated circuits. When combined with trends such as cloud computing and "Big Data" are other key devices like our wireless connectivity forcing the migration to a newer, faster generation chips, we can provide customers with a complete of server and storage products. We also work closely smartphone platform. We're proud that Samsung with mobile carriers, who are anxious to upgrade chose our complete smartphone platform for the their networks to keep pace with rising demand. Galaxy Y series, which is attracting attention for styl- Our products targeting those markets did well in ish design and functionality. Broadcom’s complete 2011, and we plan to build upon their success. smartphone platforms will change the economics of the smartphone business by shortening customer Broadcom's ability to offer complete solutions, development cycles and reducing costs. for mobile and elsewhere, is greatly enhanced with our acquisition of NetLogic Microsystems, Inc., a Another technology shift now underway involves leader in high performance intelligent semiconductor the arrival of fifth generation Wi-Fi products that solutions.
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