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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

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Important Notice Regarding the Availability of Proxy Materials for the

Shareholder Meeting to Be Held on May 15, 2012.

 

       

 

Meeting Information            

 

     ENTROPIC COMMUNICATIONS, INC.   

Meeting Type:

 

For holders as of:

 

   Annual Meeting

 

   March 26, 2012

       

 

Date:       May 15, 2012

 

 

 

  Time: 2:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time

 

        Location:      Entropic Communications, Inc.
       

    6290 Sequence Drive

       

    San Diego, CA 92121

 

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ENTROPIC COMMUNICATIONS, INC.

ATTN: LANCE BRIDGES

6290 SEQUENCE DRIVE

SAN DIEGO, CA 92121

   

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Voting Items      

 

1           To elect the following persons to serve on the company’s board of directors until the 2015 Annual Meeting of Shareholders and until their successors are duly elected and have been qualified.

       

 

             Nominees:

     

             01)  Kenneth Merchant, Ph.D.

     

             02)  Umesh Padval

     

2.          To cast a vote on advisory approval of the executive compensation of the Company’s named executive officers as disclosed in the proxy statement.

  

3.          To ratify the selection by the audit committee of the board of directors Ernst & Young LLP as the Company’s registered public accounting firm for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2012.

  

4.          To transact such other business that properly comes before the 2012 Annual Meeting of Stockholders and any adjournment or postponement thereof.

  

The  Company’s board of directors recommends a vote FOR the nominees listed above and a vote FOR proposal 2 and proposal 3.

  

 

 

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