Applied Materials Inc.

IRVINE, Calif. and SAN JOSE, Calif., Nov 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.

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Dr. Gino Addiego joined Novellus in February 2005. As the company's executive vice president of corporate operations, he oversees all of Novellus' manufacturing, supply chain, systems engineering, facilities, and corporate quality organizations. Prior to joining Novellus, Dr. Addiego spent more than eight years at Applied Materials, where he was responsible for global operations (including manufacturing and supply chain), central engineering, information technology, facilities and all of the product groups. Before that, he worked at KLA-Tencor and Photon Dynamics. Dr. Addiego received both his bachelor's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the University of California, Berkeley. He holds seven patents and was nominated for the National Inventor of the Year Award in 1993.

Tom St. Dennis was named general manager of the newly created Silicon Systems Group in June 2007. The Silicon Systems Group encompasses Applied Materials entire portfolio of semiconductor manufacturing systems. Since 2005, St. Dennis served as senior vice president and general manager of Applied's Etch, Cleans, Front End and Implant Products groups. From 2003-2005, St. Dennis helped lead Novellus Systems, Inc., serving as executive vice president and a member of the Office of the CEO. From 1999 to 2003, St. Dennis was president and CEO of Wind River Systems, a leader in embedded software. Before that, he spent 20 years in the semiconductor industry, including a seven-year tenure at Applied Materials. After joining Applied in 1992, he served as president of the PVD Product Business Group until 1997 when he became president of the Planarization and Dielectric Deposition Product Business Group and was responsible for the company's Chemical Mechanical Polishing (CMP) products, Dielectric CVD products and Process Sequence Integration group. St. Dennis holds a bachelor's degree in physics from UCLA and a master's degree in physics from UCLA.

Dr. Gilad Almogy is senior vice president and general manager for the Display and Thin Film Solar Products Business Group since July 2008, which provides products to the flat panel display market as well as tools for Applied’s SunFab™ Thin Film Solar production lines. Prior to the Display and Thin Film Solar Products Business Group, Dr. Almogy was general manager of the Process Diagnostics and Control (PDC) business group, where he was responsible for the growth of the Company’s metrology and inspection business from 2002 to 2007. Before that, he served as vice president and co-general manager of the PDC business group from 2000 to 2002. During his tenure with PDC, Dr. Almogy focused his team on the expansion of the Company’s metrology and inspection offerings to address the challenges of advanced customer requirements. Prior to Applied Materials, Dr. Almogy served as the Physics Group Manager for the Wafer Inspection Group at Orbot Instruments, which was subsequently acquired by Applied Materials in 1995. Dr. Almogy holds a doctorate in applied physics from the California Institute of Technology and received a bachelor of science degree in mathematics and physics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem and holds over 28 US patents.

Bill is currently the Director of Core Infrastructure Applications at Applied Materials. Prior to moving to the Applied Corporate EBIS team, Bill was the Director of Information Technology at Etec Systems, an Applied Materials Company. He served Etec as Director of Applications systems prior to that. Before joining Etec Systems, Bill was the Director of Revenue Systems for Management Information Technologies at Cadence Design Systems and Director of Operations for Gateway Design Systems, a Cadence acquisition. Before entering the high tech arena in 1979, Bill was a Registered Respiratory Therapist and held corporate Director positions at two proprietary Hospital Management companies after serving as Technical Director of Respiratory Therapy for a large community hospital in the Boston area. He received his clinical training at Tuft's New England Medical Center, and Harvard's Peter Bent Brigham hospitals. He was chief therapist at Peter Bent Brigham before assuming the Technical Directorship at St. John's Hospital in Lowell Massachusetts. Bill is a retired soccer referee and currently serves as a National Referee Assessor for the United States Soccer Federation and Director of Referee Development for the California North chapter of the West Cost Intercollegiate Soccer Officials Association.

Dr. Yashraj Bhatnagar came to IISc in 1983 from B.I.T.S. Pilani to join the MTech Program in Solid State Physics, completing his degree in 1985. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge, England, in 1990. He has since worked at GEC (UK), University of Vigo (Spain), and the University of Waterloo (Canada). Currently, he is a Senior Manager with Applied Materials in Santa Clara, California.

Dr. Paul R. Low has served as a director of the Company since 1993. He is currently President of PRL Associates, a position he has held since 1992. Dr. Low worked for IBM from 1957 to 1992. During his tenure at IBM, Dr. Low held senior management and executive positions with successively increasing responsibility, including President, General Technology Division and Corporate Vice President; President of General Products Division; and General Manager, Technology Products business line. Dr. Low also served on IBM s corporate management board. Dr. Low also serves as a director of Veeco Instruments, Inc.

Dr. Parker has served as a director of FEI since July 2001. Dr. Parker held a variety of positions at Intel Corporation (''Intel'') from 1969 to 2001, where he served most recently as Executive Vice President. During his tenure at Intel, Dr. Parker also served as Senior Vice President of the company's Technology and Manufacturing Group from 1989 to 1999, where he managed worldwide manufacturing. From 1999 to 2001, Dr. Parker was General Manager of Intel's New Business Group. Dr. Parker serves on the board of directors of Applied Materials, Inc., a supplier of products and services to the semiconductor industry. Dr. Parker holds B.S.E.E., M.S.E.E. and Ph.D. degrees from the California Institute of Technology.