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Broadcom
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Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. As of 2025—amid the AI boom—Broadcom is one of the largest companies globally, and could be considered part of the Big Tech group and the Magnificent Seven, replacing Tesla.
OverviewAI-generated
Broadcom is an American semiconductor company founded in 1961 and headquartered in San Jose. Also known as Avago Technologies, it employs around 20,000 people and is classified in the semiconductors and related devices industry.
Broadcom's stock trades on the Nasdaq exchange under the ticker AVGO, and the company's most recent SEC filing was an 8-K, filed as an operating entity with a fiscal year ending 1 November. Broadcom is included in the S&P 500.
Synthesized by Vinony from 26 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Firecrawl, SEC EDGAR, ROR, Vinony collections. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Key facts
- Company.name
- Broadcom Inc.
- Company.logo
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- Company.image
- Broadcom Headquarters San Jose.jpg
- Company.image_upright
- 1.2
- Company.image_caption
- Former headquarters in North San Jose
- Company.type
- Public
- Company.key_people
- Henry Samueli (chairman)Hock Tan (president and CEO)
- Company.revenue
- (2025)
- Company.operating_income
- (2025)
- Company.net_income
- (2025)
- Company.assets
- (2025)
- Company.equity
- (2025)
- Company.num_employees
- 33,000 (2025)
- Company.subsid
- VMware
- Company.hq_location
- Stanford Research Park
- Company.hq_location_city
- Palo Alto, California
- Company.hq_location_country
- U.S.
via Wikipedia infobox
Company
AVGO- Industry
- Semiconductors & Related Devices
- Exchange
- Nasdaq
- Entity type
- operating
- Latest filing
- 8-K · 2026-06-03
via SEC EDGAR
Research organization · ROR
- Type
- Company, Funder
- Founded
- 1961
- Location
- San Jose, United States
- Also known as
- Avago Technologies
- Status
- Active
GRID grid.471058.f · ISNI 0000 0004 0453 5248
Official website
Broadcom Inc. | Connecting Everything
Broadcom delivers semiconductors and infrastructure software for global enterprises’ most complex, mission-critical needs.
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- enterprise
- Official name
- Broadcom Inc.
- Country
- Singapore
- Founded by
- Hewlett-Packard
- Headquarters
- Palo Alto
- Subsidiary
- VMware
- Chairperson
- Henry Samueli
- Industry
- semiconductor industry
- Employees
- 20000
- Revenue
- 35819000000
- Stock exchange
- Nasdaq
- Legal form
- public company
- Official website
- www.broadcom.com
- Image
- Broadcom Headquarters San Jose.jpg
Show 9 more facts
- inception
- 1961-00-00
- social media followers
- 7600
- IPv4 routing prefix
- 135.142.0.0/16
- product or material produced
- semiconductor
- total assets
- 72861000000
- total equity
- 23988000000
- net profit
- 14082000000
- operating income
- 16207000000
- Commons category
- Broadcom
Sources (14)
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Encyclopedic overview
22 sectionsContents
- History
- Origin in Hewlett-Packard
- Formation of Avago Technologies
- Acquisition of and change of name to Broadcom Limited
- Foreign investment reviews and change of name to Broadcom Inc.
- Move into software
- Anti-competitive practices investigations
- Patent suits
- 2020s
- Corporate affairs
- Finances
- Ownership
- Products
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- Jericho2
- Tomahawk 3
- Software
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- BizOps technology
- XPU
- References
- External links
Broadcom Inc. is an American multinational designer, developer, manufacturer, and global supplier of a wide range of semiconductor and infrastructure software products. Broadcom's product offerings serve the data center, networking, software, broadband, wireless, storage, and industrial markets. As of 2025—amid the AI boom—Broadcom is one of the largest companies globally, and could be considered part of the Big Tech group and the Magnificent Seven, replacing Tesla.
In December 2024, Broadcom became the 12th company to surpass a $1 trillion market cap. As of 2025, some 58% of Broadcom's revenue came from its semiconductor-based products and 42% from its infrastructure software products and services.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Broadcom” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.