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Broadcom Acquisitions

Price reflects valuation at the time the deal was announced.

Target Key product Valuation Date
Mobilink Telecom chipsets for mobile phones, PDAs, cellular modem cards $190 million Apr 02
ServerWorks server input/output (I/O) integrated circuits $957 million Jan 01
VisionTech MPEG-2 compression chips 7.96 million shares Nov 00
SiByte network processors based on the MIPs architecture $2.04 billion Nov 00
Allayer Communications switch processors supporting 10 Gbps rates $275 million Oct 00
Element 14 DSL silicon $596 million (2.65 million shares) Oct 00
New Port Communications optical devices in CMOS, including OC-48 and OC-192 transceivers $1.4 billion Aug 00
Silicon Spice gateway processor featuring Any-Service-Any-Port (ASAP) flexibility over IP and ATM $1.2 billion Aug 00
Altima Communications ICs for low-cost 10/100 switches and hubs $533 million Jul 00
Innovent Systems Bluetooth transceivers implemented in CMOS $456 million Jun 00
Pivotal Technologies Visual Interface (DVI) transmitters and receivers for scalable radio frequency (RF) CMOS solutions $243 million May 00
Digital Furnace algorithms for boosting upstream transmission in HFC networks 664,735 shares Mar 00
Stellar Semiconductor 3D graphics technology for set-top boxes, digital TVs and Internet appliances 672,346 shares Mar 00
BlueSteel Networks security processors 375,000 shares Mar 00
AltoCom soft modem technology 1.62 million shares Aug 99
HotHaus Technologies embedded DSP software for VoIP $280 million Jul 99
Maverick Networks multi-layer switching technology for enterprise networks 864,200 shares Jun 99
Epigram silicon chipsets for 10 Mbps Ethernet over existing telephone wiring in the home $316 million in stock Apr 99 

 

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