8-K

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

WASHINGTON, DC 20549

FORM 8-K

CURRENT REPORT
PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE
SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of report (Date of earliest event reported): October 19, 2006

BROADCOM CORPORATION

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

California	000-23993	33-0480482
(State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation)	(Commission File Number)	(IRS Employer Identification No.)

16215 Alton Parkway, Irvine, California 92618

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)(Zip Code)

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code: (949) 450-8700

Not Applicable

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed since Last Report)

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition	2
Item 9.01 Exhibits	2
SIGNATURE	3
EXHIBIT INDEX	4
EXHIBIT 99.1

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Item 2.02 Results of Operations and Financial Condition

The information in this Current Report, including the accompanying exhibit, is being furnished and shall not be deemed “filed” for the purposes of Section 18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or otherwise subject to the liabilities of that Section. The information in this Current Report shall not be incorporated by reference into any registration statement or other document filed pursuant to the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, regardless of any general incorporation language in such filing.

On October 19, 2006, Broadcom Corporation issued a press release announcing selected unaudited financial information for its third quarter ended September 30, 2006. A copy of the press release is furnished herewith as Exhibit 99.1 and is incorporated by reference herein.

Item 9.01 Exhibits

     (d) Exhibits

          99.1 Press Release dated October 19, 2006 of the Registrant.

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SIGNATURE

     Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

	BROADCOM CORPORATION, a California corporation
October 19, 2006	By:	/s/ BRUCE E. KIDDOO
		Bruce E. Kiddoo
		Vice President and Acting Chief Financial Officer

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EXHIBIT INDEX

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press Release dated October 19, 2006 of the Registrant.

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EX-99.1

EXHIBIT 99.1

NEWS RELEASE

Broadcom Business Press Contact
Bill Blanning
Vice President, Public Relations
949-926-5555
blanning@broadcom.com Broadcom Financial Analyst Contact
T. Peter Andrew
Vice President, Investor Relations
949-926-5663
pandrew@broadcom.com

Broadcom Reports Third Quarter 2006 Results

Conference Call to be Webcast Today at 1:45 p.m. Pacific Time

IRVINE, Calif. — October 19, 2006 — Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) today reported selected unaudited financial information for its third quarter ended September 30, 2006.

Net revenue for the 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 for the third quarter of 2005. Net revenue for the nine months ended September 30, 2006 was a record $2.744 billion, an increase of 48.3% from the $1.850 billion reported for the nine months ended September 30, 2005.

The company’s cash, cash equivalents and short and long term marketable securities at September 30, 2006 totaled a record $2.554 billion, an increase of $177.2 million over the comparable balance at June 30, 2006 and an increase of $678.9 million over the comparable balance at December 31, 2005.

Due to the pending restatement of the company’s historical financial statements (see below), all financial numbers presented in this release should be considered estimates.

“Despite the current near-term industry-wide challenges, we continue to experience strong design win momentum” said Scott A. McGregor, Broadcom’s President and Chief Executive Officer. “The markets in which we compete continue to be favorable for Broadcom. Our broad technology portfolio enabled us to win new designs across a broad set of large and growing

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markets, such as digital television, 3G cellular, and next-generation wireless functionality for game platforms.”

On September 8, 2006 and July 14, 2006 Broadcom provided preliminary reports regarding its voluntary review of equity award practices, commenced in May 2006. Since the review is ongoing, the company has limited the scope of its third quarter financial information released today to the selected unaudited GAAP financial information attached to this release. The company does not expect to be in a position to announce additional financial results for the second or third quarter of 2006 until its Audit Committee and Ernst & Young LLP have completed their equity award reviews and audit procedures, respectively, appropriate accounting adjustments and restated financial statements have been finalized for the first quarter of 2006 and prior periods, and amended Reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q have been filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for the periods ended December 31, 2005 and March 31, 2006, respectively. Please refer to the Reports on Form 8-K filed with the SEC on September 12, 2006 and July 14, 2006 for further information about the equity award review and the company’s intention to restate its financial statements.

Due to the pending equity award review and restatements, it appears unlikely that Broadcom will be able to file its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the period ended September 30, 2006 with the SEC by the due date of November 9, 2006.

As previously announced, Broadcom will conduct a conference call with analysts and investors to discuss its estimated third quarter 2006 financial information and current financial prospects today at 1:45 p.m. Pacific Time (4:45 p.m. Eastern Time). The company will broadcast the conference call via webcast over the Internet. To listen to the webcast, or to view the financial information to be discussed on the call, please visit the Investors section of the Broadcom website at www.broadcom.com/investors. The webcast will be recorded and available for replay until 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time, Thursday, November 2, 2006.

About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. Our products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and

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throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. Broadcom provides the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything^®.

Broadcom, one of the world’s largest fabless semiconductor companies with 2005 revenue of $2.67 billion, is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., and has offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at 1.949.450.8700 or at www.broadcom.com.

Safe Harbor Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995:

All statements included or incorporated by reference in this release and in the related conference call for analysts and investors, other than statements or characterizations of historical fact, are forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements are based on our current expectations, estimates and projections about our industry and business, management’s beliefs, and certain assumptions made by us, all of which are subject to change. Forward-looking statements can often be identified by words such as “anticipates,” “expects,” “intends,” “plans,” “predicts,” “believes,” “seeks,” “estimates,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “would,” “could,” “potential,” “continue,” “ongoing,” similar expressions, and variations or negatives of these words, and include, among others, the anticipated restatement of Broadcom’s historical financial statements and our expectations regarding our ability to file required reports with the SEC on a timely basis . These forward-looking statements are not guarantees of future results and are subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause our actual results to differ materially and adversely from those expressed in any forward-looking statement.

Important factors that may affect Broadcom’s business, results of operations and financial condition include, but are not limited to, general economic and political conditions and specific conditions in the markets we address, including the continuing volatility in the technology sector and semiconductor industry, trends in the broadband communications markets in various geographic regions, including seasonality in sales of consumer products into which our products are incorporated, and possible disruption in commercial activities related to terrorist activity or armed conflict; the timing, rescheduling or cancellation of significant customer orders and our ability, as well as the ability of our customers, to manage inventory; the gain or loss of a key customer, design win or order; the rate at which our present and future customers and end-users adopt Broadcom’s technologies and products in our target markets; our ability to scale our operations in response to changes in demand for our existing products and services or demand for new products requested by our customers; intellectual property disputes and customer indemnification claims and other types of litigation risk; our dependence on a few significant customers for a substantial portion of our revenue; problems or delays that we may face in shifting our products to smaller geometry process technologies and in achieving higher levels of design integration; our ability to specify, develop or acquire, complete, introduce, market and

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transition to volume production new products and technologies in a cost-effective and timely manner; delays in the adoption and acceptance of industry standards in our target markets; the effectiveness of our expense and product cost control and reduction efforts; our ability to retain, recruit and hire key executives, technical personnel and other employees in the positions and numbers, with the experience and capabilities, and at the compensation levels needed to implement our business and product plans; our ability to timely and accurately predict market requirements and evolving industry standards and to identify opportunities in new markets; the quality of our products and any potential remediation costs; competitive pressures and other factors such as the qualification, availability and pricing of competing products and technologies and the resulting effects on sales and pricing of our products; the availability and pricing of third party semiconductor foundry, assembly and test capacity and raw materials; the timing of customer-industry qualification and certification of our products and the risks of non-qualification or non-certification; changes in our product or customer mix; the volume of our product sales and pricing concessions on volume sales; fluctuations in the manufacturing yields of our third party semiconductor foundries and other problems or delays in the fabrication, assembly, testing or delivery of our products; the risks of producing products with new suppliers and at new fabrication and assembly and test facilities; the risks and uncertainties associated with our international operations, particularly in light of terrorist activity, armed conflict or political unrest; the effects of natural disasters, public health emergencies, international conflicts and other events beyond our control; and the level of orders received that can be shipped in a fiscal quarter.

Other risks and uncertainties that will affect our results of operations include, but are not limited to, those resulting from the company’s ongoing voluntary review of its equity award practices as described in the SEC Forms 8-K filed July 14, 2006 and September 12, 2006, including, among other things, the scope of the equity awards for which accounting measurement dates will change; the amount and timing of stock-based compensation and other additional expenses to be recorded, and the corresponding restatement of our financial statements; other accounting adjustments that may result from review of our financial statements for the periods in question; the ramifications of our inability to file required reports with the SEC on a timely basis; our ability to persuade the Nasdaq Listing Qualifications Panel to grant our request for continued listing of the company’s Class A common stock on The Nasdaq Stock Market; potential claims and proceedings relating to such matters, including shareholder litigation and action by the SEC, U.S. Attorney’s Office or other governmental agencies which could result in civil or criminal sanctions against the company and/or certain of our officers, directors and/or employees; other actions taken or required as a result of the review, including without limitation the possible termination of employment or changes in responsibilities of company officers and/or employees; and negative tax or other implications for the company resulting from the accounting adjustments and other factors.

Our Annual Report on Form 10-K, subsequent Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q, recent Current Reports on Form 8-K, and other Securities and Exchange Commission filings discuss the foregoing risks as well as other important risk factors that could contribute to such differences or otherwise affect our business, results of operations and financial condition. The forward-looking statements in this release and the related conference call for analysts and investors speak only as of the date they are made. We undertake no obligation to revise or update publicly any forward-looking statement for any reason.

BroadcomÒ, the pulse logo, Connecting everythingÒ and the Connecting everything logo are among the trademarks of Broadcom Corporation and/or its affiliates in the United States, certain other countries and/or the EU. Any other trademarks or trade names mentioned are the property of their respective owners.

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BROADCOM CORPORATION

SELECTED UNAUDITED GAAP FINANCIAL INFORMATION

	Three Months Ended				Nine Months Ended
	September 30,				September 30,
	(In thousands)
	2006		2005		2006		2005
Net revenue	$	902,586	$	694,977	$	2,744,364	$	1,850,183

	September 30,		June 30,		December 31,
	2006		2006		2005
	(In thousands)
Cash and cash equivalents	$	1,927,798	$	1,838,372	$	1,437,276
Short-term marketable securities		449,353		366,894		295,402
Long-term marketable securities		177,273		171,961		142,843
Total cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities	$	2,554,424	$	2,377,227	$	1,875,521
Increase from prior quarter end	$	177,197
Increase from prior year end	$	678,903
Accounts receivable, net	$	424,299	$	408,301	$	307,356
Inventory	$	223,528	$	278,036	$	194,571

Note: Due to the pending restatement of the company’s historical financial statements (see discussion in the release text), all financial numbers presented in this release should be considered estimates.