Conexant Announces New Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales; Christian Scherp Joins Company, Reporting to EVP and COO Lewis Brewster

Business Wire, June 21, 2005

NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- Conexant Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ:CNXT), a worldwide leader in semiconductor solutions for broadband communications, enterprise networks and the digital home, today announced that Christian Scherp, 40, has joined the company as senior vice president of Worldwide Sales. Scherp will report to Lewis Brewster, executive vice president and chief operating officer, who also served as acting senior vice president of Worldwide Sales.

"We are pleased Christian has chosen to join the Conexant team," Brewster said. "Over the course of his 15-year semiconductor career, he has worked in complex, highly competitive worldwide markets, and he has consistently delivered exceptional results in a wide variety of assignments. He has also demonstrated that he has outstanding leadership and strategic skills. I'm convinced that Christian will have a significant positive impact on our company."

Prior to joining Conexant, Scherp was vice president and general manager of wireless/wireline Communications Group for Infineon Technologies North America. Previously at Infineon, he served as vice president of wireline Communications products marketing, and vice president and general manager of the Communications group's wide area networking business. Before the spin-off and creation of Infineon, Scherp held positions of increasing responsibility with Siemens AG in engineering, marketing, and business planning.

"I'm excited about joining the impressive Conexant team, and I'm enthusiastic about the company's prospects," Scherp said. "This position will allow me to contribute at a high level as I use the skills and experience I've acquired over the course of my career to strengthen and broaden Conexant's worldwide customer engagements."

Scherp holds a master's degree in electrical and electronics engineering, and a master's degree in business administration, both from the Technical University of Munich, Germany.

About Conexant

Conexant's innovative semiconductor solutions are driving broadband communications, enterprise networks and digital home 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 highly integrated silicon solutions for broadband data and media processing networks.

Key products include client-side xDSL and cable modem solutions, home network processors, broadcast video encoders and decoders, digital set-top box components and systems solutions, and dial-up modems. Conexant's suite of networking components includes a leadership portfolio of IEEE 802.11a/b/g-compliant WLAN chipsets, software and reference designs, as well as solutions for applications based on HomePlug(SM) and HomePNA(TM). The company also offers a complete line of asymmetric and symmetric DSL central office solutions, which are used by service providers worldwide to deliver broadband data, voice, and video over copper telephone lines.

Conexant is a fabless semiconductor company that recorded more than $900 million in revenues in fiscal year 2004. The company has approximately 2,400 employees worldwide, and is headquartered in Newport Beach, Calif. To learn more, please visit us at www.conexant.com.

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