American semiconductor and infrastructure software giant (NASDAQ: AVGO); also produces optical and magnetic encoders inherited from the HP/Agilent/Avago lineage.
Founders
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.
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).
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).
Meta's family of homegrown AI chips (6 generations: 100, 200, 300, 400, 450, 500) developed with Broadcom. Chiplet architecture, ~6-month cadence, PyTorch-native, hundreds of thousands of chips in production.
The TPU (Tensor Processing Unit) is Google's custom AI accelerator (ASIC) for machine learning, based on a systolic-array architecture (MXU, bfloat16). Available on Google Cloud; used e.g. to train the Gemini models.
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