Broadcom Corporation
Type	Public NASDAQ: BRCM
Founded	August 1991
Headquarters	Irvine, California, USA
Key people	Henry Samueli, Co-founder, Chairman, CTO Henry Nicholas, Co-founder Scott A. McGregor, CEO, President
Industry	Semiconductors
Revenue	$3.67 billion USDFY 2006 ( $901.5M Q1 2007)
Employees	5,573 (2007)
Website	www.broadcom.com

Broadcom Corporation is a leading American supplier of integrated circuits (ICs) for broadband communications. Founded in 1991 by Henry Samueli (chairman and CTO) and Henry Nicholas, it became a public company in 1998 and now employs over 5,000 people worldwide. Image File history File links Logo-broadcom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ... NASDAQ in Times Square, New York City. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Image File history File links This is a lossless scalable vector image. ... Location of Irvine within Orange County, California. ... Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. ... A Chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ... CTO may refer to: chief technical officer or chief technology officer, both describe the same function cancelled-to-order (philately) configure-to-order Caribbean Tourism Organisation cervical-thoracic orthosis Colorado Tourism Office color temperature orange, a lighting gel Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation community treatment order Carmen Tomassetti Orchestras CTO.com Czech... A Chief Executive Officer (CEO), or Chief Executive, is the highest-ranking corporate officer, administrator, corporate administrator, executive, or executive officer, in charge of total management of a corporation, company, organization or agency. ... This article includes a list of works cited or a list of external links, but its sources remain unclear because it lacks in-text citations. ... A semiconductor is a fuckin solid whose electrical conductivity is in between that of a metal and that of an insulator, and can be controlled over a wide range, either permanently or dynamically. ... For the tax agency in the United Kingdom of the same name, see HM Revenue and Customs. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A fiscal year (or financial year or accounting reference date) is a 12-month period used for calculating annual (yearly) financial reports in businesses and other organizations. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... For the album by the Kaiser Chiefs see Employment (album) Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ... A website (alternatively, Web site or web site) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on one or several Web server(s), usually accessible via the Internet, cell phone or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML... Integrated circuit of Atmel Diopsis 740 System on Chip showing memory blocks, logic and input/output pads around the periphery Microchips with a transparent window, showing the integrated circuit inside. ... Year 1991 (MCMXCI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display the 1991 Gregorian calendar). ... Henry Samueli (born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York) is co-founder, chairman, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation and a philanthropist in the Orange County, California community. ... Henry T. Nicholas III is the former Chairman and co-founder of Broadcom. ... This article does not cite any references or sources. ...

Broadcom is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders. This article or section is missing needed references or citation of sources. ...

Products

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-concentators) and cellular phones (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA). 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 any tasks that utilize encryption. This has many practical benefits for e-commerce, and PGP or GPG secure communications. “Computer Networks” redirects here. ... A telecommunications network is a network of telecommunications links arranged so that messages may be passed from one part of the network to another over multiple links. ... Local area network scheme A local area network (LAN) is a computer network covering a small geographic area, like a home, office, or group of buildings. ... Motorola Surfboard cable modem A cable modem is a type of modem that provides access to a data signal sent over the cable television infrastructure. ... Cellular redirects here. ... The Global System for Mobile communications (GSM: originally from Groupe Spécial Mobile) is the most popular standard for mobile phones in the world. ... General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) is a mobile data service available to users of GSM and IS-136 mobile phones. ... Enhanced Data rates for GSM Evolution (EDGE) or Enhanced GPRS (EGPRS), is a digital mobile phone technology that allows it to increase data transmission rate and improve data transmission reliability. ... W-CDMA (Wideband Code Division Multiple Access) is a type of 3G cellular network. ... PGP Encryption (Pretty Good Privacy) is a computer program that provides cryptographic privacy and authentication. ... The GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG or GPG) is a free software replacement for the PGP suite of cryptographic software, released under the GNU General Public License. ...

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 Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, Dell, Lenovo, Linksys, Logitech, Cisco Systems and TiVo. The term set-top box (STB) describes a device that connects to a television and some external source of signal, and turns the signal into content then displayed on the screen. ... The digital video recorder (DVR), also called personal video recorder (PVR) or digital personal video recorder, is a consumer electronics device that records television shows to a hard disk in digital format. ... Bluetooth logo This article is about the electronic protocol named after Harald Bluetooth Gormson. ... Official Wi-Fi logo Wi-Fi was originally a brand licensed by the Wi-Fi Alliance to describe the embedded technology of wireless local area networks (WLAN) based on the IEEE 802. ... Satellite television is television delivered by way of orbiting communications satellites located 37,000 km (22,300 miles) above the earths surface. ... The Hewlett-Packard Company (NYSE: HPQ), commonly known as HP, is a very large, global company headquartered in Palo Alto, California, United States. ... Motorola Inc. ... Dell Inc. ... Lenovo Group Limited, formerly known as Legend Group Limited, is the largest personal computer manufacturer in the Peoples Republic of China, and as of 2004 is the eighth largest in the world. ... A 802. ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... A Cisco ASM/2-32EM router deployed at CERN in 1987. ... TiVo (pronounced tee-voh, IPA: ) is a popular brand of digital video recorder (DVR) in the United States. ...

Broadcom also authored its own VoIP codecs in 2002:

• BroadVoice 16 with declared bitrate 16 Kb/s and audio sampling frequency 8 kHz
• BroadVoice 32 with declared bitrate 32 Kb/s and sampling rate of 16 kHz (note hovewer that X-Lite SIP phone's menu declares bitrate 48000 b/s)

BroadVoice is a Voice over IP (VoIP) network that allows users to conduct voice communications via a broadband Internet connection. ...

Consumer design wins

While Broadcom's primary business is strictly as an IC supplier to OEMs, the Broadcom moniker is known to home consumers through several high-profile consumer devices: Original equipment manufacturer, or OEM, is a term that refers to a situation in which one company purchases a manufactured product from another company and resells the product as its own, usually as a part of a larger product it sells. ... A moniker (or monicker) is a pseudonym, or cognomen, which one gives to oneself. ...

• Broadcom supplies the video processor chip for Apple's 5th generation iPod.
• In Q2 2005, Broadcom Corporation announced it will 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 will provide Bluetooth connectivity for Wii's controller.

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Manufacturing

Broadcom is known as a fabless company. It outsources all semiconductor manufacturing to Asian merchant foundries, such as Chartered, SMIC, Silterra, TSMC, and UMC. The company is based in Irvine, California on the campus of University of California, Irvine, with other research and development sites in Silicon Valley and Bangalore, India. A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. ... Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to create chips, the integrated circuits that are present in everyday electrical and electronic devices. ... A foundry is a factory which produces castings of metal, both ferrous and non-ferrous. ... Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing (SGX: C27) (NASDAQ: CHRT) (abbreviated CSM) is the worlds third largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry, with its headquarters and main operations located in Singapore. ... Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation, (“SMIC”, NYSE: SMI, SEHK: 981) is one of the leading semiconductor foundries in the world and the largest and most advanced foundry in Mainland China, providing integrated circuit (IC) manufacturing service at 0. ... Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (Traditional Chinese: 台灣積體電路製造股份有限公司, abbrev. ... UMC (United Microelectronics Corporation) was founded in 1980, as Taiwans first Semiconductor company. ... Location of Irvine within Orange County, California. ... The University of California, Irvine is a public research university primarily situated in suburban Irvine, California, USA; a significant portion of the campus falls into the neighboring community of Newport Beach. ... A view of downtown San Jose, the self-proclaimed Capital of Silicon Valley. ... , Bangalore (Bengalūru) (Kannada: ; pronunciation: in Kannada and in English) is the capital of the Indian state of Karnataka. ...

Stock options scandal

On July 14, 2006, Broadcom announced it had to subtract $750,000,000 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.^[1] On January 24, 2007, it announced a restatement of its financial results from 1998 to 2003 that totaled $2.24 billion. is the 195th day of the year (196th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... Main article: Option A stock option is a specific type of option that uses the stock itself as an underlying instrument to determine the options pay-off (and therefore its value). ... is the 251st day of the year (252nd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2006 (MMVI) was a common year starting on Sunday (link displays full 2006 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... January 24 is the 24th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 2007 (MMVII) is the current year, a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar and the AD/CE era. ...

Qualcomm Suit

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. Broadcom has also initiated patent litigation in U.S. courts over this issue. The U.S. International Trade Commission (USITC) is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency of the United States that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such... Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California. ... Qualcomm (NASDAQ: QCOM) is a wireless telecommunications research and development company based in San Diego, California. ...

At issue is software designed to extend battery life in chips while users make out-of-network calls. In October, an ITC administrative judge made an initial ruling that Qualcomm violated the Broadcom patent covering that feature and the commission later affirmed the decision.

Acquisitions

Through the years, Broadcom has acquired many smaller companies to quickly enter new markets.

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References

1. ^ Broadcom's Options Bombshell. BusinessWeek (2006-09-09). Retrieved on 2006-09-09.

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External links

• Broadcom homepage
• Broadcom Factsheet
• History of Broadcom corporation
• Broadcom WLAN Installation under SUSE