Beceem Press Release 011806

PRESS RELEASE

Beceem Communications First to Release Chipset for The Newly Approved IEEE 802.16E Mobile Broadband Standard

Company is first to release terminal chipset for commercial production and establishes technology and product leadership in the emerging Mobile 4G-WiMAX market

San Jose, CA, Jan. 18, 2006 - Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com), a leading provider of chipsets for the mobile broadband market today announced that it has just released the world's first terminal chipset implementing a feature set based entirely on the new IEEE 802.16e Mobile 4G-WiMAX standard. In so doing Beceem is the first to demonstrate and make available a commercial Mobile 4G-WiMAX /WiBro chipset solution that is suitable for mobile, portable and fixed applications.

Beceem's MS120 Mobile 4G-WiMAX terminal solution contains:

A digital baseband chip that includes the entire Physical Layer (PHY) and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality. An embedded RISC processor implements the MAC functionality thereby minimizing processing load on the host processor.
An integrated radio chip (RF) designed for multi-band operation containing multiple transmit/receive chains thereby minimizing cost, foot print and power consumption for Mobile 4G-WiMAX implementations.
A complete reference design kit for the "4G-WiMAX Modem" including host driver software and RF calibration tools which will enable terminal OEMs and ODMs to quickly produce 4G-WiMAX compliant devices.

"We are proud to announce the commercial availability of our first Mobile 4G-WiMAX chipset today. Our scalable chip architecture together with our efficient algorithms enables a highly cost-effective and power-efficient digital baseband implementation for 4G-WiMAX " says Babu Mandava, President and Co-founder of Beceem. "In addition, we developed a radio chip that is perfectly matched to meet the stringent demands of an OFDMA airlink.. This gives our chipset an additional performance and cost advantage over other chipset solutions that are pieced together from multiple vendor products."

The MS120 chipset is designed to operate in the challenging low signal to noise environments prevalent in hand-offs and the edge of wireless networks. Therefore, Beceem believes that its MS120 Mobile 4G-WiMAX /WiBro chipset will:
Set the benchmark for Mobile 4G-WiMAX chipsets due to its high performance, small footprint, power efficiency and time-to-market leadership.
Accelerate the market for Mobile 4G-WiMAX by making available high-throughput terminals that significantly outperform 3G based solutions.
Enable the rapid emergence of the terminal ecosystem for Mobile 4G-WiMAX due to the completeness and simplicity of the MS120 reference design kit.

The MS120 chipset has been sampled to lead customers and reference design kits are immediately available upon request.

About Beceem Communications

Beceem Communications Inc. was founded in October 2003 with the goal of building a wireless technology company offering semiconductor solutions for the wireless broadband market. Beceem is the leading supplier of chipsets for the recently ratified, IEEE 802.16e standard on which Mobile 4G-WiMAX is based. The company's solutions target both base station and subscriber terminal applications. Beceem combines an experienced management team with strong technology leadership and seasoned Silicon Valley investors, along with a world class team of engineers.

For more information please visit www.beceem.com

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Media Contacts

Lars Johnsson
VP Business Development & Marketing / Beceem
+1 408 387 5007
ljohnsson@beceem.com email

Elizabeth Villanueva or Valerie Christopherson
Global Results Communications
+1 949 608 0276
lizv@globalresultspr.com email
valeriec@globalresultspr.com email

		PRESS RELEASE Beceem Communications First to Release Chipset for The Newly Approved IEEE 802.16E Mobile Broadband Standard Company is first to release terminal chipset for commercial production and establishes technology and product leadership in the emerging Mobile 4G-WiMAX market San Jose, CA, Jan. 18, 2006 - Beceem Communications (www.beceem.com), a leading provider of chipsets for the mobile broadband market today announced that it has just released the world's first terminal chipset implementing a feature set based entirely on the new IEEE 802.16e Mobile 4G-WiMAX standard. In so doing Beceem is the first to demonstrate and make available a commercial Mobile 4G-WiMAX /WiBro chipset solution that is suitable for mobile, portable and fixed applications. Beceem's MS120 Mobile 4G-WiMAX terminal solution contains: A digital baseband chip that includes the entire Physical Layer (PHY) and Media Access Control (MAC) functionality. An embedded RISC processor implements the MAC functionality thereby minimizing processing load on the host processor. An integrated radio chip (RF) designed for multi-band operation containing multiple transmit/receive chains thereby minimizing cost, foot print and power consumption for Mobile 4G-WiMAX implementations. A complete reference design kit for the "4G-WiMAX Modem" including host driver software and RF calibration tools which will enable terminal OEMs and ODMs to quickly produce 4G-WiMAX compliant devices. "We are proud to announce the commercial availability of our first Mobile 4G-WiMAX chipset today. Our scalable chip architecture together with our efficient algorithms enables a highly cost-effective and power-efficient digital baseband implementation for 4G-WiMAX " says Babu Mandava, President and Co-founder of Beceem. "In addition, we developed a radio chip that is perfectly matched to meet the stringent demands of an OFDMA airlink.. This gives our chipset an additional performance and cost advantage over other chipset solutions that are pieced together from multiple vendor products." The MS120 chipset is designed to operate in the challenging low signal to noise environments prevalent in hand-offs and the edge of wireless networks. Therefore, Beceem believes that its MS120 Mobile 4G-WiMAX /WiBro chipset will: Set the benchmark for Mobile 4G-WiMAX chipsets due to its high performance, small footprint, power efficiency and time-to-market leadership. Accelerate the market for Mobile 4G-WiMAX by making available high-throughput terminals that significantly outperform 3G based solutions. Enable the rapid emergence of the terminal ecosystem for Mobile 4G-WiMAX due to the completeness and simplicity of the MS120 reference design kit. The MS120 chipset has been sampled to lead customers and reference design kits are immediately available upon request. About Beceem Communications Beceem Communications Inc. was founded in October 2003 with the goal of building a wireless technology company offering semiconductor solutions for the wireless broadband market. Beceem is the leading supplier of chipsets for the recently ratified, IEEE 802.16e standard on which Mobile 4G-WiMAX is based. The company's solutions target both base station and subscriber terminal applications. Beceem combines an experienced management team with strong technology leadership and seasoned Silicon Valley investors, along with a world class team of engineers. For more information please visit www.beceem.com “WiMAX Forum” is a registered trademark of the WiMAX Forum. “WiMAX ,” the WiMAX Forum logo, "WiMAX Forum Certified," and the WiMAX Forum Certified logo are trademarks of the WiMAX Forum. All other trademarks are the properties of their respective owners. Media Contacts Lars Johnsson VP Business Development & Marketing / Beceem +1 408 387 5007 ljohnsson@beceem.com email Elizabeth Villanueva or Valerie Christopherson Global Results Communications +1 949 608 0276 lizv@globalresultspr.com email valeriec@globalresultspr.com email