14 Facts About Broadcom Corporation

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Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company that makes products for the wireless and broadband communication industry.

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Broadcom Corporation was founded by professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas from UCLA in 1991.

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Broadcom Corporation, then headquartered in Singapore, was considered too close to China and chipmaker Huawei.

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Back in 2017, Broadcom filed an array of patent suits against manufacturers of smart TVs In 2018, the U S International Trade Commission ruled against Broadcom, finding that two manufacturers did not infringe on patents owned by Broadcom.

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5.

Broadcom Corporation authored its own VoIP codecs in 2002, and released them as open source with LGPL license in 2009:.

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

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The foundation requested help from Broadcom Corporation 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.

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Broadcom Corporation divulged that it is bringing two variants of the Tomahawk-3 to market.

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Many Broadcom Corporation employees have gone on to take key positions in successful tech enterprises and starts ups, including:.

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10.

Broadcom Corporation originally intended to occupy the entire campus, but after the Avago acquisition, it sold the site to FivePoint Holdings and then leased back only two of the four buildings.

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Broadcom Corporation was previously headquartered in the University Research Park on the University of California, Irvine campus from 2007 to 2018, and before that was headquartered near the Irvine Spectrum.

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Broadcom Corporation has many other research and development sites including Silicon Fen, Cambridge, Bangalore and Hyderabad in India, Richmond and Markham in Canada and Sophia Antipolis in France.

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

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Broadcom Corporation logo was designed by Eliot Hochberg, based on the logo for the company's previous name, Broadband Telecom.

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