Conexant was launched as an independent entity in January 1999 after Rockwell International Corp. spun off its Rockwell Semiconductor System business to shareowners. The company has steadily expanded its product portfolio and customer base, leveraging its expertise in mixed-signal processing, to deliver integrated systems and semiconductor products which facilitate communications worldwide through wireline voice and data networks and emerging cable and fixed wireless broadband communications networks.

Today, the company operates in two distinct segments: the broadband communications business and Mindspeed Technologies, the company's Internet infrastructure business.

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