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Broadcom Corporation today announced that the company's multi-core embedded processor portfolio has received the 2006 Award for Product Line Strategy from Frost & Sullivan (a leading global growth consulting firm), in the Embedded Processor category. The Frost & Sullivan Award for Product Line Strategy is presented each year to a company that has demonstrated the most insight into customer needs and product demands. According to Frost & Sullivan, the innovative chip design, high-performance and low power consumption features of Broadcom's highly integrated, multi-core processor solutions have made them the preferred customer choice for a wide variety of embedded applications such as networking, communications, storage, 3G wireless infrastructure, security and high density computing applications. "The Broadcom(R)BCM 64-bit series of processors are available worldwide and have been met with widespread acceptance. Networking infrastructure, storage, embedded high-performance computing and video on demand applications have benefited from this family of processors," stated Frost & Sullivan research analyst S Nagarajan. "Broadcom's embedded processor solutions offer good insight into customer demands, offering efficiency in both performance and power consumption." This award recognition is the result of extensive market analysis of the world microcontrollers market conducted by Frost & Sullivan's industry analysts. The recipient of the award needed to optimize its product line by leveraging products with the various price, performance and feature points required through the market analysis, as well as through strategic positioning, according to Frost & Sullivan. "We are honored that Frost & Sullivan has recognized Broadcom's leadership in multi-core technology," said Bart Sano, Senior Director of Broadcom's Broadband Processor Line of Business. "Our broadband processors are designed into industry-leading customer platforms largely due to their superior integration, low power and high performance. We have a field-proven track record, evidenced by the fact that we were the first-to-market with embedded multi-core products that have been shipping for over five years, the successful design wins we have secured in multiple applications and the partnerships we have established with industry-leading customers. We are committed to delivering even more advanced and innovative multi-core processor solutions to our customers in the future." The multi-core family of Broadcom 64-bit MIPS embedded processors includes the BCM1255, BCM1280, BCM1455 and BCM1480. The BCM1255 dual-core processor and the BCM1455 quad-core processor each integrates a DDR2 (double data rate) memory controller as well as a single 64-bit PCI-X interface and four Gigabit Ethernet (GMII) interfaces. Each of the BCM1280 dual-core and BCM1480 quad-core embedded processors includes all of these features plus three SPI-4/HyperTransport I/O ports for intelligent packet processing and routing, and multi-chip coherency support. Broadcom's complete portfolio of multi-core processor products are currently shipping to key customers. Broadcom's embedded multi-core processors have been recognized for other industry awards including the Microprocessor Report Analysts' Choice Award for "Best High-Performance Embedded Processor of 2004" for the BCM1480 quad-core embedded processor. Broadcom's BCM1250 (the industry's first dual-core processor targeted at embedded applications) won the same top honors in 2002. To learn more about Frost & Sullivan's Best Practices Awards program please visit its Web site.