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To Our Clients:
Enclosed for your consideration is a prospectus dated , 2020 (the “Prospectus”) and a Letter of Transmittal (the “Letter of Transmittal”) that together constitute the offer (the “Exchange Offer”) by Broadcom Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “Issuer”), to exchange up to $525,342,000 aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 3.125% senior notes due 2021, $692,841,000 aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 3.125% senior notes due 2022, $1,044,409,000 aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 3.625% senior notes due 2024, $2,500 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 4.250% senior notes due 2026 and $3,000 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 4.750% senior notes due 2029 (such notes privately placed on April 5, 2019, collectively, the “April 2019 Notes”); $2,250 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 4.700% senior notes due 2025 and $2,250 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 5.000% senior notes due 2030 (such notes privately placed on April 9, 2020, collectively, the “April 2020 Notes”); $1,000 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 2.250% senior notes due 2023, $2,250 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 3.150% senior notes due 2025, $2,750 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 4.150% senior notes due 2030 and $2,000 million aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 4.300% senior notes due 2032 (such notes privately placed on May 8, 2020, collectively, the “May 2020 Notes”); and $1,695,320,000 aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 3.459% Senior Notes due 2026 and $2,222,349,000 aggregate principal amount of any and all of its outstanding privately placed 4.110% Senior Notes due 2028 (such notes privately placed on May 21, 2020 and June 4, 2020, collectively, the “June 2020 Notes”) (the April 2019 Notes, the April 2020 Notes, the May 2020 Notes and the June 2020 Notes, the “Old Notes”) for an equal aggregate principal amount of its newly issued 3.125% Senior Notes due 2021, 3.125% Senior Notes due 2022, 3.625% Senior Notes due 2024, 4.250% Senior Notes due 2026 and 4.750% Senior Notes due 2029; the 4.700% Senior Notes due 2025 and 5.000% Senior Notes due 2030; the 2.250% Senior Notes due 2023, 3.150% Senior Notes due 2025, 4.150% Senior Notes due 2030 and 4.300% Senior Notes due 2032; and the 3.459% Senior Notes due 2026 and 4.110% Senior Notes due 2028 (collectively, the “New Notes”), respectively, in a transaction that is registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), upon the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus. The Prospectus and Letter of Transmittal more fully describe the Exchange Offer. Capitalized terms used but not defined herein have the meanings given to them in the Prospectus.
These materials are being forwarded to you as the beneficial owner of Old Notes carried by us for your account or benefit but not registered in your name. A tender of any Old Notes may be made only by us as the registered holder and pursuant to your instructions. Therefore, the Issuer urges beneficial owners of Old Notes registered in the name of a broker, dealer, commercial bank, trust company or other nominee to contact such registered holder promptly if they wish to tender Old Notes in the Exchange Offer.
Accordingly, we request instructions as to whether you wish us to tender any or all of your Old Notes, pursuant to the terms and conditions set forth in the Prospectus and Letter of Transmittal. We urge you to read carefully the Prospectus and Letter of Transmittal before instructing us to tender your Old Notes.
Your instructions to us should be forwarded as promptly as possible in order to permit us to tender Old Notes on your behalf in accordance with the provisions of the Exchange Offer.The Exchange Offer will expire at midnight, New York city time, on , 2020, unless extended by the Issuer. Old Notes tendered pursuant to the Exchange Offer may be withdrawn, subject to the procedures described in the Prospectus, at any time prior to the Expiration Date.
If you wish to have us tender any or all of your Old Notes held by us for your account or benefit, please so instruct us by completing, executing and returning to us the instruction form that appears below. The accompanying Letter of Transmittal is furnished to you for informational purposes only and may not be used by you to tender Old Notes held by us and registered in our name for your account or benefit.
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