8-K

 

UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
WASHINGTON, D.C. 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): November 22, 2005

Broadcom Corporation
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(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

California	000-23993	33-0480482
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of incorporation)	File Number)	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
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Former name or former address, if changed since last report

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Item 5.02 Departure of Directors or Principal Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Principal Officers.

(d) Effective as of November 22, 2005 the Board of Directors of Broadcom Corporation (the "Board") appointed Nancy H. Handel to fill an existing vacancy on the Board. The Board has not yet appointed Ms. Handel to any Board committee.

Broadcom issued a related press release announcing the appointment of Ms. Handel to the Board on November 23, 2005. The full text of the press release is attached as Exhibit 99.1 to this report and is hereby incorporated by reference herein.

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits.

99.1 Press Release dated November 23, 2005 of the Registrant.

SIGNATURES

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
November 23, 2005	By:	William J. Ruehle
		Name: William J. Ruehle
		Title: Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Exhibit Index

Exhibit No.	Description
99.1	Press Release dated November 23, 2005 of the Registrant.

EX-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 Names
Nancy H. Handel to Its Board of Directors

IRVINE and SAN JOSE, Calif. – November 23, 2005 – Broadcom Corporation (Nasdaq: BRCM) today announced the appointment of Nancy H. Handel to its Board of Directors.

Ms. Handel, 54, serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Applied Materials, Inc. (Nasdaq: AMAT), a major supplier of equipment and services to the global semiconductor industry. Named CFO in October 2004, she has been an executive with Applied Materials since 1985, serving in a variety of key financial leadership positions at the company, including four years as Deputy Chief Financial Officer, Corporate Controller and Principal Accounting Officer, and 13 years as Treasurer.

At Applied Materials, Ms. Handel has been responsible for various global functions, such as treasury, tax, new business development, corporate accounting, external financial reporting, financial aspects of Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, investor relations and operations finance, including product groups and regions worldwide. Prior to joining Applied Materials, she held financial management positions at Raychem Corporation, Crown Zellerbach Corporation and The Aviation Group.

In the Silicon Valley community, Ms. Handel has served in leadership positions in a number of organizations, including the Girl Scouts of Santa Clara County, where she was on the Board of Directors from 1991 to 2004, serving as Board President for the last six years of her service. She currently serves on the Board of the American Leadership Forum of Silicon Valley, a nonprofit organization that brings senior level leaders together to build philanthropy, public service and community in Silicon Valley.

Ms. Handel received a B.S. in Economics from Purdue University and an M.B.A. from The Ohio State University, and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program.

“Nancy has built an excellent reputation in the high tech industry for her executive leadership in finance at a major global company,” said Scott A. McGregor, Broadcom’s President and CEO. “With more than two decades of financial experience in leadership roles at Applied Materials and her understanding of the global semiconductor industry, she will be a major asset on our Board.”

Broadcom’s Board of Directors now has nine members, of which six are independent directors, including Ms. Handel and Maureen E. “Moe” Grzelakowski, whose appointment to the Board was announced November 17. The members of the Board include Mr. McGregor; Ms. Grzelakowski; Ms. Handel; Dr. Henry Samueli, Broadcom’s co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer; George L. Farinsky; John Major; Alan E. Ross; Robert E. Switz; and Werner F. Wolfen.

About Broadcom
Broadcom Corporation is a global leader in wired and wireless broadband communications semiconductors. Our products enable the convergence of high-speed data, high definition video, voice and audio at home, in the office and on the go. Broadcom provides manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices with the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions. These solutions support our core mission: Connecting everything®.

Broadcom is one of the world’s largest fabless semiconductor companies, with annual revenue of more than $2 billion. The company is headquartered in Irvine, Calif., with offices and research facilities in North America, Asia and Europe. Broadcom may be contacted at 1-949-450-8700 or at www.broadcom.com.

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