Broadcom Inc. is an American semiconductor and infrastructure software company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Its current form dates to 2016, when Avago Technologies, a Singapore-based chipmaker itself descended from Hewlett-Packard and Agilent semiconductor businesses, acquired the older Broadcom Corporation and adopted its name. Broadcom makes chips for networking, broadband and wireless communications, and expanded into enterprise software through acquisitions including CA Technologies, Symantec's enterprise division and, in 2023, VMware.
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Company TypeAmerican multinational designer, developer, manufacturer and global supplier of semiconductor and infrastructure software products 1 Founded Year1961 is the founding, within Hewlett-Packard, of HP Associates, the semiconductor products division that led through successive spinoffs (Agilent's 2005 Semiconductor Products Group buyout forming Avago Technologies) and Avago's 2016 acquisition of Broadcom Corporation, whose name the combined company took, to the present-day Broadcom Inc. HeadquartersPalo Alto, California, U.S. 1 Connections
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A major semiconductor company; classified in the atlas semiconductor-industry.
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Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products.
History section
The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
History section, Origin in Hewlett-Packard
The company that would later become Broadcom Inc. was established in 1961 as HP Associates, a semiconductor products division of Hewlett-Packard.
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