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  Document: Complaint for Patent Infringement in Intel v. Broadcom, 8/30/00.
Broadcom has infringed and continues to infringe, has induced and continues to induce others to infringe, and/or has committed and continues to commit acts of contributory infringement of, one or more claims of the ‘830 patent.
Broadcom has infringed and continues to infringe, has induced and continues to induce others to infringe, and/or has committed and continues to commit acts of contributory infringement of, one or more claims of the ‘410 patent.
Broadcom has infringed and continues to infringe, has induced and continues to induce others to infringe, and/or has committed and continues to commit acts of contributory infringement of, one or more claims of the ‘20l patent.
www.techlawjournal.com /courts/intel_broadcom/20000830com.asp   (1800 words)

  
 Broadcom Sticks With Fourth-Quarter Guidance - Technology News by TechWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
By Broadcom on Thursday assured investors that it is comfortable with fourth-quarter growth estimates by financial analysts.
Broadcom Corp. (stock: BRCM) CEO and president Henry Nicholas III said projections of 125 percent growth in revenue from the fourth quarter of 1999 are in line with the company's own expectations.
In the third quarter, Broadcom's revenue grew 30.2 percent sequentially, to $319.2 million from $245.2 million in the second quarter.
www.techweb.com /wire/finance/story/INV20001109S0003   (260 words)

  
 Broadcom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Broadcom Corporation is a leading American supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications.
Broadcom's product line spans computer and telecommunication networking: the company has products for enterprise/metropolitan high-speed networks, as well as products for SOHO (small-office, home-office) networks.
Broadcom supplies the video processor chip for Apple's 5th generation iPod.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Broadcom   (426 words)

  
 Broadcom Extends 54 Mbps Wireless LAN Leadership
Broadcom was the first vendor to ship solutions based on IEEE 802.11g, which is expected to become the new mainstream 54Mbps wireless LAN standard, and 54g™ is Broadcom's maximum performance implementation of the 802.11g standard that provides optimum speed, range and security capabilities.
Broadcom Corporation is the leading provider of highly integrated silicon solutions that enable broadband communications and networking of voice, video and data services.
Broadcom is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and may be contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.
ko.broadcom.com /press/release.php?id=426041   (1462 words)

  
 Broadcom sues Qualcomm over patents | Tech News on ZDNet
Broadcom filed two complaints on Wednesday in the United States District Court for the Central District of California that claim Qualcomm violated 10 of its patents related to wired and wireless communications and multimedia processing technologies.
Broadcom has requested that the ITC investigate the San Diego-based company's practices and prohibit it from importing devices into the U.S. that infringe on the Broadcom patents.
Broadcom said it expects the ITC investigation to begin in late June and the California trial to begin in early 2006.
news.zdnet.com /2100-1035_22-5713564.html   (526 words)

  
 CMPnetAsia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
According to Broadcom (Irvine, Calif.) Intensi-fi technology incorporates all mandatory elements of the 802.11n draft specification passed by the IEEE Task Group N Thursday (Jan. 19).
Broadcom said the technology is designed to be software upgradable once the standard is finalized.
Broadcom is now sampling Intensi-fi chipsets, and is offering reference designs to speed development time for Wi-Fi device manufacturers.
www.cmpnetasia.com /oct3_nw_viewart.cfm?Artid=28266&Catid=5&subcat=48§ion=News   (267 words)

  
 Broadcom Completes Acquisition of Sandburst Corporation
Broadcom also assumed all unvested employee stock options of Sandburst, which will entitle the holders to receive, upon vesting, up to approximately 110,000 shares of Broadcom Class A common stock, having a total value of approximately $5 million based upon the terms of the acquisition agreement.
Broadcom may record a one-time charge for purchased in-process research and development expenses related to the acquisition in the first quarter of 2006.
Broadcom, one of the world's largest fabless semiconductor companies with annual revenue of more than $2.5 billion, is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe.
www.us.design-reuse.com /news/news12737.html   (446 words)

  
 Broadcom's Weak Link [Fool.com: Commentary] December 9, 2005
Broadcom's just one of the companies aspiring to be on top of this new communications era.
Yet while Broadcom's impressive track record in these competitive markets gives them a good shot at breaking into the market for more advanced cellular components, the company is still a small fish in a big ocean.
In May 2005, Broadcom filed a patent infringement suit against Qualcomm, stating that its rival was using Broadcom's intellectual property in some products.
www.fool.com /news/commentary/2005/commentary05120901.htm   (1089 words)

  
 PC World - Broadcom Puts Wi-Fi on One Chip
Broadcom says integrating the whole Wi-Fi system into a single chip means less drain on a PDA's battery, as well as a lower cost and smaller size.
Broadcom integrated an 802.11b baseband processor, a power amplifier, a Media Access Controller, and all other radio components, including the 2.4-GHz radio itself, into a single chip.
For PCs, Broadcom is now focusing on faster 802.11g and 802.11a/g technology that is still in the form of multiple-chip solutions, Abramowitz says.
www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,112376,00.asp   (912 words)

  
 Broadcom Shows Single-Chip Cable-Modem Tech - Technology News by TechWeb   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Broadcom is unveiling Monday what it calls the industry's first single-chip cable-modem technology.
CEO Henry Nicholas said Broadcom believes two years from now, more cable modems will be used for delivering voice services than for delivering data services.
Broadcom is introducing a cable-modem reference design for developers interested in the chip.
www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB19980921S0004   (606 words)

  
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Broadcom made the ITC brief available to analysts on Tuesday.
The ITC investigative staff found in its report, which was submitted to Judge Charles E. Bullock in April, that all three of the patent complaints from Broadcom were valid and that Qualcomm was infringing two of the patents under 16 claims.
Broadcom uses the technologies in baseband and Wi-Fi systems, and the patent win could also help it enter the 3G (third generation) mobile phone market, according to the UBS analysts.
redherring.com /Article.aspx?a=16901&hed=ITC+Lawyers+Side+with+Broadcom   (765 words)

  
 Broadcom Corporation - Semiconductor Solutions for Bluetooth, Gigabit Ethernet, Enterprise Switching, Wireless LAN, ...
Broadcom is developing solutions supporting the next generation of 3G and 4G high-speed mobile technologies.
Broadcom's integrated, low power chips empower networking equipment to transmit, manage and prioritize increasing amounts of complex voice, video and data traffic at broadband speeds, moving data to and from the desktop and throughout the enterprise network.
Broadcom's Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) chips, field-proven software and development tools for wired and wireless enterprise and residential IP phones, access equipment, residential VoIP terminal adapters, and carrier class gateways are enabling cost-effective, feature-rich products that are driving convergence of traditional public switched telephone networks and packet-based networks.
www.broadcom.com   (537 words)

  
 Broadcom Reports Third Quarter 2005 Results
Net revenue for the third quarter of 2005 was $695.0 million, an increase of 14.9% from the $604.9 million reported for the second quarter of 2005 and an increase of 7.5% from the $646.5 million reported for the third quarter of 2004.
Broadcom believes that pro forma non-GAAP reporting, giving effect to the adjustments shown in the attached reconciliation, provides meaningful information and therefore uses pro forma non-GAAP reporting to supplement its GAAP reporting in evaluating operations, managing and benchmarking performance, and determining a portion of bonus compensation.
Broadcom has chosen to provide this supplemental information to investors, analysts and other interested parties to enable them to perform additional analyses of operating results and to illustrate the results of operations giving effect to the pro forma non-GAAP adjustments shown in the attached reconciliation.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-broadcom-reports-third-quarter-2005-results-/2005/oct/1195794.htm   (2421 words)

  
 PC World - Broadcom Demos Multimedia Cell Phone Chip   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Broadcom is demonstrating a multimedia processor at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes, France, this week that could help lower two barriers to high-quality video on handsets: high price and short battery life.
To tailor it to midrange phones, Broadcom reduced the amount of memory in the chip and removed the capability to plug it into a TV for big-screen video playback, Hyatt said.
Broadcom is relatively new to mobile phone chips, but it's not the only newcomer, analysts said.
www.pcworld.com /resource/article/0,aid,119692,pg,1,RSS,RSS,00.asp   (803 words)

  
 Broadcom News
Broadcom Corp., a Irvine-based semiconductor maker, said third-quarter sales increased 30% as the company sold more chips for TV set-top boxes.
Net revenue for Broadcom's third quarter of 2006 was $902.6 million, a decrease of 4.1% from the $941.1 million reported for the second quarter of 2006 and an increase of 29.9% from the $695.0 million reported...
Broadcom Corporation, a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, today announced that its broadband access silicon and software platform has been selected by Pirelli Broadband...
www.topix.net /com/brcm   (693 words)

  
 Qualcomm Broadens Its Legal Tussle Against Broadcom - News - Network Computing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Qualcomm's move is a response to the lawsuit filed by Broadcom May 18 that alleges patent infringement on 10 Broadcom patents.
A spokeperson for Broadcom Tuesday (July 12) told EE Times: "We filed our patent lawsuits on the strength of our conviction that we have a very strong case, and we remain confident of prevailing in the courts.
Qualcomm soon followed up with its own countersuit, alleging Broadcom's case had no merit and stressing it had granted over 130 licenses to a host of companies.
www.networkcomputing.com /channels/networkinfrastructure/165701364   (447 words)

  
 Broadcom Reports First Quarter 2006 Results
Net revenue for the first quarter of 2006 was $900.6 million, an increase of 9.8% from the $820.6 million reported for the fourth quarter of 2005 and an increase of 63.7% from the $550.3 million reported for the first quarter of 2005.
Broadcom reported non-GAAP net income of $196.8 million, or $.34 per share (diluted), for the fourth quarter of 2005, and non-GAAP net income of $81.6 million, or $.15 per share (diluted), for the first quarter of 2005.
Broadcom may be contacted at 1.949.450.8700 or at http://www.broadcom.com/.
www.tmcnet.com /usubmit/-broadcom-reports-first-quarter-2006-results-/2006/04/20/1591666.htm   (1817 words)

  
 Broadcom buys wireless chip maker
Broadcom, in Irvine, California, envisions combining all these capabilities in products that allow wireless connectivity at a desk, around an office and on the road with automatic roaming between the various types of networks.
Broadcom's shares on the NASDAQ closed Monday at $33.89, putting the value of the deal at approximately $190 million.
Broadcom will set aside approximately 2 million more shares to be issued to shareholders in the future when certain performance goals are achieved, according to the company.
www.networkworld.com /news/2002/0408broadcom.html   (700 words)

  
 Broadcom Still Looks Strong Long-Term - Forbes.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Shares of Broadcom hit a new 52-week low on Friday after the company provided a worse-than-expected revenue forecast for its third quarter.
The stock will likely be range-bound until investors "come to grips" with Broadcom (nasdaq: BRCM - news - people)'s new forward growth rates, he said, but should recover somewhat later in the year.
Maintaining an "equal-weight" rating on Broadcom shares, he said, "While near-term comparisons can be expected to be difficult, Broadcom should resume growth in the fourth quarter and deliver faster-than-market growth in 2007."
www.forbes.com /home/markets/2006/07/21/broadcom-earnings-0721markets08.html   (381 words)

  
 Broadcom finds an antitrust suit for Qualcomm | The Register
This lawsuit follows one filed by Broadcom in May, accusing Qualcomm of patent infringement.
Their monopoly in CDMA technology has increased the price of cell phones in the U.S., and we are hoping that the courts will prevent the same thing from happening with the next generation '3G' cell phones.
The antitrust lawsuit does not overlap with Broadcom's patent lawsuit, in which the vendor accused Qualcomm of violating its IP for delivering multimedia content to cell phones.
www.theregister.co.uk /2005/07/05/broadcom_anti_qualcomm   (472 words)

  
 Broadcom Moves into Storage
Broadcom is starting out with a Direct Attached Storage (DAS) approach (server-focused), "but they could also go in the direction of embedded RAID storage controllers in the future as disk drives get smaller and become embedded in other devices," Webster told Enterprise Storage Forum.
With the acquisition, Harlin says Broadcom will be able to provide a wide range of offerings to server and storage customers, including server I/O chipsets, RAID software, broadband processors, PCI-X- and PCI-Express-based SATA I and II controllers and multiplexers, Gigabit Ethernet controllers, and complete reference designs.
Broadcom reports it will incur cash acquisition costs and future compensation expenses of up to $16.5 million, of which $10 million will be paid in the quarter ending March 31.
www.internetnews.com /storage/article.php/3307721   (875 words)

  
 HyperTransport™ Consortium - Product Information In-depth
The BCM1480 is a scalable chip multiprocessor (CMP) system consisting of four Broadcom SB-1 high-performance MIPS64 CPUs, a shared 1-MB L2 cache, a DDR memory controller, and integrated I/O. All major blocks of the processor are connected together via the ZBbus, which is a high-speed, split-transaction multiprocessor bus.
The Broadcom BCM5850 is a breakthrough chip that delivers new levels of SSL/TLS processing performance to secure web servers, proxy servers, and high-speed networking equipment that process SSL/TLS encrypted data.
The AS90L10204 is a high performance HyperTransport™-to-PCI/PCI-X bridge capable of tunneling the data between the two 8-bit HT ports or transferring the data between the HT ports and the PCI/PCI-X port.
www.hypertransport.org /products/productdetail.cfm?RecordID=66   (858 words)

  
 www.54g.org
Broadcom 54g® Wi-Fi technology is the most popular choice for home, business, and public hotspots.
54g® is Broadcom's standards-based 802.11g technology, with maximum performance speed, reach, security, and ease of use.
Broadcom radically simplifies Wi-Fi™ network setup and security configuration with the push of a button.
www.54g.org   (90 words)

  
 Broadcom sues Qualcomm over patents - Network World
Broadcom has also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), seeking to ban the importation of some foreign-manufactured Qualcomm products that allegedly infringe Broadcom patents, according to a Broadcom statement Thursday.
Broadcom, in Irvine, Calif., is one of the world's largest vendors of communications silicon.
Broadcom said it is seeking unspecified monetary damages from Qualcomm and a permanent injunction to ban the manufacture and sale of its core baseband and radio frequency chips, including chips for multimedia and for the QChat VoIP technology, which is used for cellular push-to-talk systems.
networkworld.com /edge/news/2005/051905-broadcom-qualcomm.html?...   (680 words)

  
 Broadcom Stock Report (BRCM) | Quote & News
Broadcom is reaping the benefits of its powerful technology portfolio.
Broadcom develops a diverse array of integrated circuits targeting high-speed networking and broadband applications.
Broadcom also designs chips for storage networking and wireless equipment, such as servers and mobile handsets.
quote.morningstar.com /Quote.html?ticker=BRCM&pgid=wwhome4b   (268 words)

  
 Battle Heats Up Again As Qualcomm Sues Broadcom - News by InformationWeek   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Qualcomm said that its suit, filed in U.S. District Court in San Diego, that Broadcom infringed on its patents in its chipsets used both for GSM-based cellular equipment and Wi-Fi wireless LAN equipment.
In legalese, Qualcomm claimed its patents are "essential" to Broadcom's manufacturer of that equipment.
That means Qualcomm claims that Broadcom couldn't create the equipment without automatically infringing on the patents.
www.informationweek.com /story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701284   (330 words)

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