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Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry. It was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 and currently operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged entity Broadcom Inc.

• 1History
• 2Products
• 3Business

History[edit]

1995-2016: Founding and name changes[edit]

Broadcom Corporation was founded by professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas from UCLA in 1991. In 1995 the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles office to Irvine, California.^[1] In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange (ticker symbol: BRCM) and employs about 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries. Visual basic 2010 express free download cnet.

Broadcom is among Gartner's Top 10 Semiconductor Vendors by revenue.^[2]

Broadcom first landed on the Fortune 500 in 2009.

In 2012, Broadcom's total revenue was $8.01 billion. In 2013, Broadcom stood at No. 327 on the Fortune 500, having climbed 17 places from its 2012 ranking of No. 344.^[3]

In May 28, 2015 chip maker Avago Technologies Ltd. agreed to buy Broadcom Corp. for $37 billion in cash and stock. At closing, which completed on February 1, 2016,^[4] Broadcom shareholders held 32% of the new Singapore-based company to be called Broadcom Limited. Hock Tan, Avago President and CEO, was named CEO of the new combined company. Dr. Samueli became Chief Technology Officer and member of the combined company's board, and Dr. Nicholas serves in a strategic advisory role within the new company.^[5][6] The new merged entity is named Broadcom Limited but inherits the ticker symbol AVGO. The BRCM ticker symbol was retired.

In May 2016 Cypress Semiconductor announced that it will acquire Broadcom Corporation's full portfolio of IoT products for $550 million. Under the deal, Cypress acquires Broadcom's IoT products and intellectual property for Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and ZigBee connectivity, as well as Broadcom's WICED platform and SDK for developers. The deal combined Broadcom's developer tools and connectivity technologies for IoT devices with Cypress' own programmable system-on-a-chip (SoC) products that provide memory, computing and graphics processing for low-power devices.^[7]

Qualcomm litigation and settlement[edit]

On April 26, 2009, Broadcom settled four years of legal battles over wireless and other patents with Qualcomm Inc., another fabless semiconductor company headquartered in San Diego, California.^[8] The deal ended the patent litigation as well as complaints of anti-competitive behavior before trade commissions in the United States, Europe and South Korea. As part of the settlement, Qualcomm paid $891 million in cash to Broadcom over a four-year period ending June 2013.^[9]

In June 2007, the U.S. International Trade Commission blocked the import of new cell phone models based on particular Qualcomm microchips. They found that these Qualcomm microchips infringe patents owned by Broadcom.^[10] In January 2017, the FTC sued Qualcomm for allegedly engaging in unlawful tactics to maintain 'a monopoly on cellular-communications chips.'^[11]

On January 17, 2018, it was reported that the FTC was investigating whether Broadcom had 'engaged in anti-competitive tactics in negotiations with customers,' in a probe that had been ongoing for several months.^[11]

2006-2008: Stock options scandal[edit]

On July 14, 2006, Broadcom announced it had to subtract $750 million from earnings due to stock options irregularities. On September 8, 2006, the amount was doubled to $1.5 billion. The company may also owe additional taxes.^[12] On January 24, 2007, it announced a restatement of its financial results from 1998 to 2005 that totaled $2.22 billion.^[13]

On May 15, 2008, Broadcom CTO Samueli resigned as chairman of the board and took a leave of absence as Chief Technology Officer after being named in a civil complaint by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).^{[citation needed]}

On June 5, 2008, Broadcom co-founder and former CEO Henry Nicholas and former CFO William Ruehle were indicted on charges of illegal stock-option backdating. Nicholas was also indicted for violations of federal narcotics laws.^[14] However, in December 2009, federal judge Cormac J. Carney threw out the options backdating charges against Nicholas and Ruehle after finding that federal prosecutors improperly tried to prevent three defense witnesses from testifying.^[15]

Products[edit]

Broadcom's product line spans computer and telecommunication networking: the company has products for enterprise/metropolitan high-speed networks, as well as products for SOHO (small-office, home-office) networks. Products include transceiver and processor ICs for Ethernet and wireless LANs, cable modems, digital subscriber line (DSL), servers, home networking devices (router, switches, port-concentrators) and cellular phones (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA/LTE). It is also known for a series of high-speed encryption co-processors, offloading this processor-intensive work to a dedicated chip, thus greatly speeding up tasks that utilize encryption. This has many practical benefits for e-commerce, and PGP or GPG secure communications.

The company also produces ICs for carrier access equipment, audio/video processors for digital set-top boxes and digital video recorders, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi transceivers and RF receivers/tuners for satellite TV. Major customers include Apple, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, IBM, Dell, Asus, Lenovo, Linksys, Logitech, Nintendo, Nokia, Nortel(Avaya), TiVo, Tenda and Cisco Systems. In September 2011, Broadcom shut down its digital TV operations.^[16] Broadcom also shut down its Blu-ray chip business. The closure of these businesses began on September 19, 2011.

On June 2, 2014, Broadcom announced intentions to exit the cellular baseband business.^[17]

Network interface controllers[edit]

Vendors have included Broadcom NICs in their products. For example, Dell PowerEdge M-Series blade-server products may be fitted with Dell-supplied Dual Port Broadcom NetXtreme 5709 Gigabit Ethernet port adapters.^[18]

Trident+ ASIC[edit]

Another large market is hardware for switches: some vendors offer switching equipment based on Broadcom hardware and firmware (e.g. Dell PowerConnect classics) while other well-known vendors do use the Broadcom hardware but write their own firmware. The latest Broadcom Trident+ ASIC is used in many high-speed 10Gb+ switches from the largest switch-vendors such as Cisco Nexus switches running NX-OS,^[19]DellForce10 (now Dell Networking) running FTOS/DNOS,^[20][21] all Arista 7050-series switches,^[22] the IBM/BNT 8264, and Juniper QFX3500.^[23]

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The latest 'member' of the Trident family is the Trident II XGS which can support up to 32 x 40G ports or 104 x 10G ports (or a mix of both) on a single chip.^[24][25] Examples of switches using this Trident II XGS chip are the Dell Networking S6000,^[26] Cisco Nexus 9000^[27] and some smaller vendors like: EdgeCore AS6700, Penguin Arctica 3200XL or QuantaMesh T5032^[28]

Graphics processing unit[edit]

VideoCore is the GPU found on some systems-on-a-chip (SoC)s by Broadcom, the most widely known one being the BCM2835 containing VideoCore IV found in the Raspberry Pi.

Video acceleration[edit]

Broadcom Crystal HD does video acceleration.

WiFi chipsets[edit]

Broadcom 'BCM43' series chips provide WiFi support in many Android and iPhone devices. Models include the BCM4339 used in phones such as the Nexus 5 (2013) and the BCM4361 used in the Samsung Galaxy S8 (2017). These are SoC devices with a Cortex R4 for processing the MAC and MLME layers and a proprietary Broadcom processor for the 802.11 physical layer.^[29]The chips also handle Wi-Fi Direct, Bluetooth and NFC.^[30]

• Broadcom supplies the WiFi+Bluetooth combo chip for Apple iPhone 3GS and later generations and corresponding iPod touch generations.
• In Q2 2005, Broadcom Corporation announced it would be providing Nintendo its “online solution on a chip” as deployed in millions of notebooks and PDAs across the globe, enabling Nintendo 802.11b connectivity with DS and 802.11g for the Wii. More specifically, Broadcom would provide Bluetooth connectivity for Wii's controller.^{[citation needed]}
• In 2013 Broadcom unveiled the first 802.11ac 5G Wifi SOCs which is adopted across many mobile phones including the Samsung Galaxy S4 and S5, the HTC One and the LG Nexus 5. Additionally, routers from Motorola, Netgear, Huawei and Belkin also include Broadcom's 802.11ac chips.

Vulnerabilities in SoC WiFi stack[edit]

In April 2017, Google's Project Zero investigated Broadcom's SoC WiFi stack and found that it lacked 'all basic exploit mitigations - including stack cookies, safe unlinking and access permission protection,' allowing 'full device takeover by Wi-Fi proximity alone, requiring no user interaction.'^[31] Numerous smartphones, such as by Apple, Samsung and Google were affected.^[32][33][34]

BroadVoice[edit]

Broadcom authored its own VoIP codecs in 2002, and released them as open source with LGPL license in 2009:^[35]

• BroadVoice 16 with declared bitrate 16 kbit/s and audio sampling frequency 8 kHz
• BroadVoice 32 with declared bitrate 32 kbit/s and sampling rate of 16 kHz (note however that X-Lite SIP phone's menu declares bitrate 80,000 bit/s)

Linux products[edit]

Some free and open source drivers are available and included in the Linux kernel source tree for the 802.11b/g/a/n family of wireless chips Broadcom produces.^[36] Since the release of the 2.6.26 kernel some Broadcom chips have kernel support but require external firmware to be built.

In 2003 the Free Software Foundation accused Broadcom of not complying with the GNU General Public License as Broadcom distributed GPL code in a driver for its 802.11g router chipset without making that code public.

The chipset was adopted by Linksys which was later purchased by Cisco. Cisco eventually published source code for the firmware for its WRT54G wireless broadband router under the GPL-license.^[37][38]

In 2012 the Linux Foundation listed Broadcom as one of the Top 10 companies contributing to the development of the Linux Kernel for 2011, placing it in the top 5 percent of an estimated 226 contributing companies. The foundation's Linux Kernel Development report also noted that, during the course of the year, Broadcom submitted 2,916 changes to the kernel.^[39] In October, Broadcom released parts of the Raspberry Piuserland under a BSD-style license. According to the Raspberry Pi Foundation, this made it 'the first ARM-based multimedia SoC with fully functional, vendor-provided (as opposed to partial, reverse-engineered) fully open-source drivers', although due to substantial binary firmware code which must be executing in parallel with the operating system, and which executes independently and prior to loading of the operating system, this claim has not been universally accepted.^[40][41]

Broadcom provided a Linux driver for their Broadcom Crystal HD, and they also hired Eric Anholt, a former Intel employee, to work on a free and open-source graphics device driver for their VideoCore IV.

Raspberry Pi[edit]

Broadcom organizes the fabrication of the processor chip, most recently the BCM2837 chip and the wifi processor BCM43438, which is used by the charitable Raspberry Pi Foundation.^[42] The foundation requested help from Broadcom making the Raspberry Pi card, a motherboard which is free of DRM or corporate control of any kind, which can interact with hardware, and which can be bought and controlled by children.^{[citation needed]}

Jericho2 Programmable Chip[edit]

Jericho2 is a programmable Ethernet switch chip that has up to 10 Tb/s switching capacity per device.^[43]

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Tomahawk-3 Chip[edit]

Tomahawk 3 series supports high-density, standards based 400GbE, 200GbE, and 100GbE switching and routing for hyperscale cloud networks. Broadcom divulged that it is bringing two variants of the Tomahawk-3 to market. The first has the full-tilt-boogie 12.8 Tb/sec with all 256 SerDes fired up, supporting 32 ports at 400 Gb/sec, 64 ports at 200 Gb/sec, and 128 ports at 100 Gb/sec. The second variant of the Tomahawk-3 has 160 of the 256 SerDes fired up and delivers 8 Tb/sec of aggregate bandwidth. Broadcom is suggesting 80 ports at 100 Gb/sec; or 48 ports at 100 Gb/sec plus either 8 ports at 400 Gb/sec or 16 ports at 200 Gb/sec; or 96 ports at 50 Gb/sec plus either 8 ports at 400 Gb/sec or 16 ports at 200 Gb/sec.^[44]

Business[edit]

Notable employees[edit]

• Henry Samueli^[45]
• Gottfried Ungerboeck, inventor of trellis coded modulation
• Sophie Wilson, designer of the ARM CPU instruction set
• Eben Upton, creator of the Raspberry Pisingle-board computer

Manufacturing[edit]

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Broadcom is known as a fabless company. It outsources all semiconductor manufacturing to foundries, such as GlobalFoundries, Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, Silterra, TSMC and United Microelectronics Corporation. The company is based in Irvine, California, in the University Research Park on the University of California, Irvine campus, after a 2007 move from its previous campus near the Irvine Spectrum. It has many other research and development sites including Silicon Fen, Cambridge (UK), Bangalore and Hyderabad in India, Richmond (near Vancouver) and Markham (near Toronto) in Canada and Sophia Antipolis in France.

Acquisitions[edit]

In September 2011, Broadcom bought NetLogic Microsystems for a deal of $3.7 billion in cash, excluding around $450 million of NetLogic employee shareholdings, which will transfer to Broadcom.^[46]

Besides the NetLogic Microsystems acquisition, through the years, Broadcom has acquired many smaller companies to quickly enter new markets.^[47]

Branding[edit]

The Broadcom logo was designed by Eliot Hochberg, based on the logo for the company's previous name, Broadband Telecom. The Broadband Telecom logo was designed by co-founder Henry Nicholas' then-wife Stacey Nicholas, who was inspired by the mathematical sinc function.^{[citation needed]}

Philanthropy[edit]

In 2009, the company founded the Broadcom Foundation as a non-profit corporation with a $50M investment, at the direction of Henry Samueli, the company's co-founder, and Broadcom Chief Executive Scott McGregor, who cited a history of science fair involvement as a factor for his own success.^[64][65] McGregor was named the foundation's first president and chairman.^[66][65]

See also[edit]

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Broadcom Inc. is an American designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products, Broadcom’s product portfolio serves the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets.

Tan Hock Eng is the company's president and CEO.^[2][3] The company is headquartered in San Jose, California.^[4][5][6][7] Avago took the Broadcom part of the Broadcom Corporation name after acquiring it in January 2016. The ticker symbol AVGO that represented old Avago now represents the new merged entity. The Broadcom Corporation ticker symbol BRCM was retired.

History[edit]

The company was founded in 1961 as a semiconductor products division of Hewlett-Packard.^[3] The division separated from Hewlett-Packard as part of Agilent Technologies in 1999.^[5][7][8]KKR and Silver Lake Partners acquired the chip division of Agilent Technologies in 2005 for $2.6 billion and formed Avago Technologies.^[5] Avago Technologies agreed to sell its I/O solutions unit to PMC-Sierra for $42.5 million in October 2005.^[9] In August 2008, the company filed an initial public offering of $400 million.^[10][11] In October 2008, Avago Technologies acquired Infineon Technologies' Munich-based bulk acoustic wave business for €21.5 million.^[12] In 2009, Avago Technologies went public on NASDAQ with the ticker symbol AVGO.^[8][13] Avago Technologies announced its agreement to acquire CyOptics, an optical chip and component supplier, for $400 million in April 2013.^[14][15] The acquisition aimed to expand Avago Technologies' fiber optics product portfolio.^[15] In October 2013, Avago Technologies invested $5 million in Amantys, a power electronics technology provider, as part of a strategic investment agreement between the two companies.^[16] Avago Technologies announced its agreement to acquire LSI Corporation in December 2013 for $6.6 billion.^{[5][7][13][17][18]} The acquisition helped move Avago Technologies away from specialized products and towards a more mainstream industry, which included chips, especially storage for data centers.^[18]

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The company sold its SSD controller business to Seagate Technology in May 2014.^[19] In August 2014, the company was the ninth largest semiconductor company.^[6] Avago Technologies agreed to sell LSI's Axxia Networking business to Intel for $650 million.^[8][20] The company also agreed to buy PLX Technology, an integrated circuits designer, for $309 million.^[21] In February 2015, it was announced that Avago Technologies Limited had reached an agreement to acquire Emulex Corporation for $8 per share in cash.^[22]

On 28 May 2015, Avago announced that it would buy Broadcom Corporation^[23] for $37 billion ($17 billion cash and $20 billion in shares).^[24] The combined company, which would be named Broadcom Ltd., would have annual revenue of $15 billion and a market value of $77 billion.^[25] Broadcom Corp. strengthened Avago Technologies' patent position significantly in sectors such as mobile, the data center and the Internet of Things and made the company the ninth largest holder of patents among the top semiconductor vendors, according to an analysis by technology consulting firm LexInnova.^[26] According to the company's web site, the transaction closed on 1 February 2016.^[27]

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In 2016, Broadcom proposed merging with Brocade Communications Systems. The merger was delayed for review by the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States. In 2017, Broadcom announced it would relocate its legal address from Singapore to Delaware, which would avoid the review.^[28] This action was linked to the parent company being renamed from Broadcom Ltd. to Broadcom Inc.^[29] The pre-2016-merger Broadcom, Broadcom Corp., remains as a wholly owned subsidiary of the renamed parent Broadcom Inc.

In November 2017, Broadcom proposed to purchase Qualcomm for $130 billion USD, which was rebuffed by Qualcomm's board.^[30] President Trump blocked the revised $117 billion merger by an executive order that cited national security concerns.^[31]

On 11 July 2018, news sources reported that Broadcom and CA Technologies agreed on terms for $18.9 billion acquisition.^[32] And on 5 November 2018 Broadcom announced that it had completed the acquisition of CA Technologies.^[33]

On 9 August 2019, news sources reported that Broadcom had decided to acquire Symantec Corporation's enterprise security business for $10.7 billion in cash. ^[34]

Products[edit]

Broadcom provides a broad range of semiconductor and infrastructure software applications that serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, and storage and industrial markets. Common applications for its products include: data center networking, home connectivity, broadband access, telecommunications equipment, smartphones, base stations, data center servers and storage, factory automation, power generation and alternative energy systems, displays, and mainframe operations and management, and application software development. Some of Broadcom's core technologies and franchise products include:

Core Technologies:

• Broadband Modems
• Wideband ADC/DACs
• Custom DSP & ARM CPUs
• Wi-Fi/Bluetooth/GPS
• Copper/Optical PHYs
• Switching Fabrics
• Analog & DSP SerDes
• FBAR & RF Front-Ends
• SAS/SATA/FC/PCIe/Read-Channel
• VCSEL/DFB Optics
• Optical Sensing
• Enterprise Infrastructure Software

Franchise Products:

• Cable/Sat/IP Set-Top Box SoCs
• Cable Modem/CMTS SoCs
• PON/DSL CPE/CO SoCs
• Wireless Connectivity Combos
• Ethernet NICs/Controllers/PHYs
• Ethernet Switching/Routing SoCs
• Network Processor SoCs
• RF Filter and Front-End Modules
• ASICs (Networking and Compute)
• HDD/SSD Controllers & HDD PreAmps
• Enterprise SAS/SATA/FC/PCIe
• Optical Isolation/Motion Encoders/LED
• Fiber Optic Products
• Mainframe Management & Analytics Software
• Enterprise Software Applications

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1. ^'Broadcom 2018 Annual Report (Form 10-K)'. U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. December 2018.

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