Broadcom
| Broadcom Corporation
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| legal form | Corporation |
| founding | 1991 |
| resolution | 2016 |
| Seat |
Irvine , United States
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| management | Scott A. McGregor ( CEO and President) |
| Number of employees | 10,650 (2014) |
| sales | 8,428,000,000 US dollars (2014) |
| Branch | Semiconductor industry |
Broadcom was a US provider of integrated circuits (ICs) for network applications, especially network cards.
The company's shares were traded on the NASDAQ and were included in the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 500 .
history
Broadcom was founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli , professor at the University of California ( UCLA ) and student Henry Nicholas. Samueli is chairman and chief technical officer . Broadcom was converted into a public company in 1998, lastly employed 10,650 people and has no production facilities of its own ( fabless ). The product range includes, for example, circuits for Ethernet , WLAN , cable modems , DSL modems and cell phones .
In 2004, Broadcom acquired the company Widcomm and their known Bluetooth - protocol stack for Windows and Windows CE or Windows Mobile . In 2006 Broadcom bought competitor Sandburst.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation uses Broadcom single-chip systems, originally developed for cell phones, as processors for their single-board computers.
On May 28, 2015, Singapore-based competitor Avago Technologies announced it was taking over Broadcom for $ 37 billion. $ 17 billion in cash was paid for with 32% of Avago's stock. The group that will be created after the merger of the two companies will have a market capitalization of 77 billion US dollars . The two companies had 2014 revenues of $ 8.4 billion (Broadcom) and $ 4.9 billion (Avago), respectively. On January 30, 2016, Avago Technologies completed the acquisition and then renamed itself Broadcom Ltd. based in Singapore . In 2018, Broadcom moved its headquarters from Singapore to the USA. The shares of Broadcom Ltd. were the Broadcom Inc. transferred.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Facts at a Glance ( Memento from August 7, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/private/snapshot.asp?privcapId=544278
- ↑ http://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/it-medien/avago-bietet-fuer-broadcom-mega-uebernahme-erschuettert-chipbranche/11838004.html
- ↑ Avago to Buy Broadcom for $ 37 Billion in Biggest Tech Deal Ever. Bloomberg.com , May 27, 2015, accessed May 29, 2015 .
- ↑ https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Broadcom-veretzt-Stammsitz-von-Singapur-in-die-USA-4012146.html
- ↑ Broadcom Completes Redomiciliation to the United States. In: Financial News Release. Broadcom, Inc., April 4, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .