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Broadcom Inc.

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Chip makerBig TechHardware vendorIndustrial manufacturerPlatform company
BroadcomAVGO

American semiconductor and infrastructure software giant (NASDAQ: AVGO); also produces optical and magnetic encoders inherited from the HP/Agilent/Avago lineage.

Founded1961USA
HQPalo AltoUnited States
Total fundingPublicly listed on NASDAQ (AVGO); FY2025 revenue ~$63.9B.
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01 · About

Broadcom Inc.

Founded 1961 · Palo Alto, United States

Founders

  • Henry T. Nicholas III

    Co-founder of Broadcom Corp. (1991), engineer, former CEO

    American electronics engineer, UCLA graduate. In 1991 he co-founded Broadcom Corporation with Henry Samueli — a company focused on broadband communication chips. After the 2016 merger with Avago, the 'Broadcom' name was adopted by the combined entity.

  • Henry Samueli

    Co-founder of Broadcom Corp. (1991), UCLA professor, current Chairman

    American electronics engineer, professor of Electrical Engineering at UCLA. Co-founded Broadcom Corp. in 1991. After the 2016 Avago–Broadcom merger he serves as Chairman of the Board. A well-known philanthropist (UCI Samueli School of Engineering).

  • Hock E. Tan

    CEO of Broadcom Inc. (since 2006 as CEO of Avago Technologies, continued after the merger)

    Malaysian-American executive, MIT (BS/MS Mechanical Engineering) and Harvard Business School (MBA) graduate. CEO of Avago Technologies since 2006 and, following the 2016 acquisition of Broadcom Corp., CEO of the combined Broadcom Inc. Known for an aggressive acquisition strategy (CA Technologies, Symantec Enterprise, VMware).

02 · What they do

Domain of activity

2 areas · 1 technologies · 4 industries
What they do2Areas
  • AI hardware
  • AI infrastructure
How they do it1Technologies
  • AI accelerators
Who for4Industries
  • Software & Technology
  • Telecommunications
  • Cybersecurity
  • Industrial manufacturing
03 · Geography

Global presence

HQ Palo Alto · 3 offices · 4 regions
GlobalNorth AmericaEuropeAsia
04 · Metrics

Scale & funding

founded 1961
1961founded
~33k (2025)employees
Publicly listed on NASDAQ (AVGO); FY2025 revenue ~$63.9B.total funding
maturedevelopment stage
Publiclisted
activestatus
05 · Portfolio

Products & solutions

2 components
06 · Relations

Organizational relations

1 strategic relations

Strategic relations

1
  • Partnership
    AppleBroadcom supplies Apple with wireless connectivity chips and, since December 2024, co-designs Apple's first AI server chip (codenamed Baltra).
    2024 →
07 · Classification

Profile & metadata

4 classification · 7 external links

Classification

  • Statusactive
  • Development stagemature
  • Listed onYesAVGO
  • Organization typeChip maker+ Big Tech, + Hardware vendor, + Industrial manufacturer, + Platform company

External links

08 · Related content

Articles

3 articles
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News8 August 2026

Anthropic builds its own team to design custom AI chips

Anthropic has confirmed an in-house team to design custom AI chips. It wants to co-design silicon with its Claude models to cut cost and latency as demand grows.

Meta to begin producing its own AI chips in September
News10 July 2026

Meta to begin producing its own AI chips in September

Meta is set to start producing the latest generation of its own MTIA AI chips in September — designed with Broadcom and manufactured by TSMC — to cut GPU costs amid capex of $125–145 billion this year.

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño — a custom inference chip built for LLMs
News24 June 2026

OpenAI and Broadcom unveil Jalapeño — a custom inference chip built for LLMs

OpenAI and Broadcom introduced Jalapeño — the first ASIC designed exclusively for LLM inference. Built in nine months with OpenAI's own models accelerating the design process, the chip is expected to cut inference costs by around 50%.