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Conexant Delivers Cost-Reduced Digital Video Broadcast Set-Top Box Decoder

Posted on: Monday, 4 August 2003, 06:00 CDT

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 4, 2003--

New IC Based on Conexant's High Performance Single-chip Platform

for Basic, Cost-sensitive Set-top Boxes

Conexant Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor system solutions for digital home information and entertainment networks, today introduced a cost-reduced single-chip integrated circuit family for set-top box (STB) applications. The CX2414X product family is a derivative of the company's recently announced, highly integrated CX2415X single-chip, interactive STB system solution. The new digital video broadcast (DVB) compliant device has been optimized to provide a cost-effective solution for non-interactive satellite and terrestrial Free-to-Air (FTA) based services in Asia and the Middle East, and the broadcast cable market in China and India.

"Increasingly, set-top box manufacturers are looking to leverage a common hardware platform that can be reused over various broadband networks and for multiple applications," said Jeffrey Crosby, vice president of Conexant's Set-top Box Products business. "Our new CX2414X product family meets this need. It can serve as either a common back-end platform that easily interfaces to a variety of broadband front-ends, or as a cost-effective system solution for a variety of set-top box applications, which allows manufacturers to minimize hardware and software development costs."

The CX2414X family is based on a 133MHz ARM9 32-bit RISC processor core, and is software and pin compatible with the company's previously announced CX2415X. This allows manufacturers to leverage a single hardware and software platform across low- and high-end product lines, thereby maximizing engineering resources. An additional cost-saving feature is support for DVB common interface modules that eliminates the need for a separate interface controller chip, which reduces cost and board space.

The CX2414X family is integrated into a fully engineered set-top box reference development system that incorporates third-party interactive middleware/RTOS platforms for complete functionality. The hardware platform comes equipped with fully integrated Nucleus+, pSOS and VxWorks runtime libraries and driver software components. The set-top box development platform hardware is designed in a two-layer PCB configuration and includes a choice of two robust tool chain development environments for code developers. Conexant also offers a complete development code solution that has been tightly integrated with third party tool environments.

Pricing and Availability

The CX2414X family is packaged in a compact 27mm ball grid array (BGA). The CX24142 is priced at $14.00 and the CX24146 at $11.00 in high volume quantities. The devices are sampling now, with volume production scheduled for October 2003.

About Conexant

Conexant's innovative semiconductor system solutions are driving digital home information and entertainment networks worldwide. The company has leveraged its expertise and leadership position in modem technologies to enable more Internet connections than all of its competitors combined, and continues to develop leading integrated silicon solutions for cable, satellite, terrestrial data and digital video networks.

Key products include digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable modem solutions, home network processors, broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, and dial-up modems. The company also offers a suite of wireless data and networking components solutions that includes HomePlug(R), HomePNA(TM) and WLAN (802.11) components and reference designs.

Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company and has approximately 1,500 employees. The company is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. To learn more, visit us at www.conexant.com.

Safe Harbor Statement

This press release contains statements relating to future results of Conexant (including certain projections and business trends) that are "forward-looking statements" as defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: the cyclical nature of the semiconductor industry and the markets addressed by the company's and its customers' products; demand for and market acceptance of new and existing products; successful development of new products; the timing of new product introductions; the availability of manufacturing capacity; pricing pressures and other competitive factors; changes in product mix; product obsolescence; the ability to develop and implement new technologies and to obtain protection for the related intellectual property; and the uncertainties of litigation, as well as other risks and uncertainties, including those detailed from time to time in the company's Securities and Exchange Commission filings. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and the company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.

Note to Editors:

Conexant is a trademark of Conexant Systems, Inc. HomePlug is a registered trademark of the HomePlug Power Alliance, Inc. and HomePNA is a registered trademark of the Home Phoneline Networking Alliance. Other brands and names contained in this release are the property of their respective owners.

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