Broadcom Inc.

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Broadcom Inc.

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legal form Incorporated
ISIN US11135F1012
founding 2005
Seat San Jose , California , United StatesUnited StatesUnited States 
management Hock E. Tan ( CEO )
Number of employees 19,000
sales 22.5 billion USD (2019)
Branch Semiconductor industry
Website www.broadcom.com
As of December 31, 2019

Broadcom (formerly Avago Technologies ) is a semiconductor company based in San José , California that, prior to its spin-off, was the semiconductor product division of Hewlett-Packard and later Agilent .

The company's shares are traded on the NASDAQ and are included in the NASDAQ 100 and the S&P 500 .

history

Avago Technologies brand logo

Avago was founded in 1961 as a division of Hewlett-Packard . The original focus was on optoelectronics , initially LEDs and LED displays , later components for fiber optic cables and optical mouse sensors . In 1999, Hewlett-Packard spun off some departments including the semiconductor business under the name Agilent . The semiconductor business was finally acquired as Avago in 2005 by a group of private equity firms led by Silver Lake and KKR for $ 2.66 billion and floated on the stock exchange in 2009.

In 2006 PMC-Sierra bought the semiconductor memory division and in the same year Marvell acquired the ASICs division for printers from Avago.

In December 2013, Avago Technologies acquired US competitor LSI Corporation for US $ 6.6 billion.

On May 28, 2015, Avago Technologies announced that it would take over its US competitor Broadcom for $ 37 billion. Of this, $ 17 billion will be paid in cash and the remainder in Avago shares. The company that will be created after the merger of the two companies will be called Broadcom, headquartered in Singapore, have a market capitalization of 77 billion US dollars and generate sales of around 13 billion US dollars. After the merger, the old Broadcom shareholders will hold around 32% of the shares in the new company. On January 30, 2016, Avago Technologies completed the acquisition and renamed itself Broadcom Ltd. around. The name Avago Technologies is used as a trademark of Broadcom Ltd. continued.

After US President Donald Trump banned Broadcom's planned hostile takeover of cell phone chip maker Qualcomm for $ 117 billion for reasons of national security in March 2018, Broadcom withdrew its takeover offer.

On April 6, 2018, Broadcom moved its headquarters from Singapore to the United States. The shares of Broadcom Ltd. were transferred to Broadcom, Inc. A few months later, Broadcom took over the software company CA Technologies .

In the fourth quarter of 2019, Broadcom bought the enterprise division and the brand name Symantec from Symantec for around 10.7 billion US dollars.

Products

Broadcom manufactures products for analog and digital technology , mixed signal and optoelectronics , with a focus on III-V compound semiconductors in addition to the usual CMOS technology . Its FBAR filters are used in cell phones and WLANs .

Broadcom owns approximately 16,500 patents .

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

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 Filters 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

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Leadership
  2. a b Annual Report 2019. (PDF) In: investors.broadcom.com. Retrieved May 23, 2020 (English).
  3. a b Avago to Buy Broadcom for $ 37 Billion in Biggest Tech Deal Ever. Bloomberg LP , May 27, 2015, accessed May 29, 2015 .
  4. Billion acquisition in US chip industry - Avago buys LSI. Der Standard , December 16, 2013.
  5. Avago Technologies Form 10-K 2014
  6. Reuters: Avago offers Broadcom: Mega takeover shakes chip industry. Handelsblatt , May 28, 2015, accessed on May 29, 2015 .
  7. Broadcom denies takeover attempt at Qualcomm. heise online , March 14, 2018, accessed on March 14, 2018 .
  8. ^ Stephan Finsterbusch, Roland Lindner: Flashed off at Trump. In: FAZ.net . March 13, 2018, accessed October 13, 2018 .
  9. heise online: Broadcom relocates its headquarters from Singapore to the USA. In: www.heise.de. April 6, 2018, accessed December 10, 2019 .
  10. Broadcom Completes Redomiciliation to the United States. In: Financial News Release. Broadcom, Inc., April 4, 2018, accessed December 27, 2018 .
  11. Broadcom to Acquire Symantec Enterprise Security Business for $ 10.7 Trillion in Cash. Retrieved February 21, 2020 .