Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNXT) is a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications and the digital home. Conexant's innovative semiconductor system solutions enable global access networks, and 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 broadband access and media processing networks.

Conexant designs, develops and sells semiconductor system solutions that connect personal access products such as set-top boxes, residential gateways, PCs and game consoles to voice, video and data processing services over broadband and dial-up connections. Key semiconductor products include digital subscriber line (DSL) and cable modem solutions, fiber optic system-on-chips, broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, and the company's foundation dial-up modem business.

The company also offers a complete line of central office (CO) solutions, which are utilized by service providers worldwide to deliver broadband data, voice, and video over copper telephone lines. These solutions include a full range of standards-based integrated circuits, software and reference designs for all asymmetric and symmetric DSL CO applications, and have been recognized time and again as the industry's number one copper wire solutions for broadband communications.