Broadcom Overview.Everything you need to know

Broadcom Overview

Broadcom is a company that builds category-leading infrastructure and advanced software solutions with a keen focus on producing artificial intelligence machines that lead all solution categories. With myriads of highly developed software attached to its portfolio, the company remains one of the most successful and strongest brands in the technology industry, serving numerous top brands across the world. In this piece, you will be shown things that are necessary for you to have the full grasp and knowledge about who the company is as a legal entity, what the company is into, how it started its operations, what benefits it offers to its clients, its staff, as well as the entire society.

Broadcom History and Founders

Generally speaking, Broadcom has vast and comprehensive history, more like you walk along an endless horizon that takes a long haul to walk through. However, for the sake of brevity, this piece will try as much as possible to give the details of every notable milestone the company had set hitherto. Hence, the succeeding lines unveil them briefly.

First, the semiconductor computer software company, Broadcom Inc. was founded in 1961 (amounting to 61 years ago by calculation). Broadcom was founded by two astounding individuals who are finesse in tech, Henri Samueli, and Henry Nicholas. The company’s headquarters is situated in San Jose, California.  However, since its inception, the company had collaborated and conjoin with key and notable companies like Hewlett-Packard (HP), AT&T/Bell labs, and Lucent, hence having its background deeply rooted in the tech industry. Since its inception up to date, the company had witnessed several changes in cognomens due to its expansive trend. From 1961 to 1999, Broadcom was formerly recognized as HP Associate, while from 1999 to 2005, it was Agentile Semiconductor Product Group. Additionally, from 2005 to 2016, the company was recognized as Avago Technologies, while from 2016 hitherto this day, the company was rebranded with the name, Broadcom Inc..

Second, in 1960, the company introduced a light-emitting diode (LED) dot that displays a matrix. The product was the company’s first product. In 1970, the company launched data communications, the fibre optical transmitters. And in 1990, the company launched another optic mouse sensor to reduce the need for a mouse pad and by extension, create a durable computer mouse.

Third, in the year 2000, more than 4 million optical fibre transceivers were shipped by the company. And in 2001, 30 million optical mice were shipped. In 2002, the company acquired RedSwitch Inc., which technically improved and increased the company’s level of expertise geometrically.

Fourth, in 2005, the company metamorphosed under the name, Avago Technologies, which by then became the first largest independent and private semiconductor company in the world. In 20016, the company acquired Infineon Technologies AG, the fibre business. Similarly, in 2008, the company acquired also acquired from the same company, Bulk  Acoustic wave (BAW). In 2010, the company achieved a revenue of $2.1 billion in its Fiscal Year. In 2012, a Full-Band Capture all-digital television turner which was the first in the industry was launched. And in 2013, the company acquired CyOptic Inc.

Fifth, in 2017, Brocade Communications Systems, Inc. was acquired, and in 2018, Broadcom introduces the industry’s first-ever 5G Radio Switch. And 2021, the company launched Adaptive Protection tailored to maximize security endpoints.

Finally, the company leveraged on industry leaders it has in its space like LSI, Brocade, CA Technologies, and Symantec, Broadcom has all it takes, that is the human, technical, and industrial skills to remain the leader in the tech industry and by extension, propel the entire industry forward.

Business Management and Operations

As one of the world’s leading software and semiconductor solution provider companies, Broadcom is committed to ensuring all its clients succeed in their businesses whilst continuing to provide quality and top-notch customer-centric services to them. Broadcom’s collaboration with top industry-leading and tech-driven corporations avails the company of the soft ground to thrive in its overall scalability whilst creating progressive long-term growth.

Broadcom business operations strategically focus on key plays in the industry, with a more keen focus on Fortune 500 companies. The company in precision served 80% of the companies listed in the Fortune 500. The company’s Software generates more than 5.2 billion USD in its yearly recurring income and revenue, and over the last three quarters, the company has experienced more than a 25% increase.

The company according to research is one of the top companies that has the highest number of successful integration of acquired companies, and by extension, Broadcom leverage this astounding skill to build itself an enviable ecosystem that other competitors use in gauging and measuring their performances. 

Product listings

No doubt, Broadcom has several and numerous lists of products due to the expansionary style in which the company operates. However, in order to make this piece easy to digest, the following list will outline them concisely, ranging from its network devices to optical technologies, franchise products, data storage, and to its software solutions

Optical technologies

Copper/Optical PHYs

Switching Frabrics

Analog & DSP SeDes

Enterprise Infrastructure Software

FBAR & RF Front-End

SAS/SATA/FC/PCIe/Read-Channel

Optical Sensing

VCSEL/DFB Optics

Networking Devices

Broadband Modems (Wideband ADC/DACs)

Wifi/GPS devices/Bluetooth

Franchise Product

Cable/Sat/IP SetpTop Box SoCs

CMTS/ SoCs /Cable Modem

Wireless Connectivity Combos

Ethernet Switching/Routing SoCs

Network Processor SoCs

RF Filter and FrontpEnd Modules

ASICs (Networking and Compute)

HDD PreAmps & HDD/SSD

Motion Encoders/ Optical Isolation/ LED

Enterprise Software Application

Fibre Optic Products

Data Storage

SOCs for Hardrives

Software

Symatec enterprise security

Bizops technologies

Broadcom Employee review on Glassdoor

Pros

Broadcom as a company offers a wide range of perks and benefits, ranging from benefits offers to customers, to the advantages its employees enjoy. The succeeding lines will give a snapshot of what the pros Broadcom offers to both its employees and customers. 

Customer-centric services: As aforementioned, Broadcom’s business mode of operation centres on its commitment to deliver 100% customer-focused services, and this by nature has been one of the company’s astounding and ever-increasing customer base.

Work-life balance for employees: A research-based review at Glassdoor shows that employees at Broadcom enjoy work-life balance as they are able to navigate seamlessly with work and life issues given their flexible work time.

Variety of products: Broadcom as a company offers a wide range of products ranging from its network devices to optical technologies, franchise products, data storage, and to its software solutions.

Top Quality Products: Products produced by Broadcom are of top quality, as a matter of fact, their products are mostly the first the industry has ever produced.

Experienced and tech-savvy staff: Combining talented and tech-savvy individuals in a single company would by all means propel such company to a greater height as well as its customers, and of course, this is evident in the company’s overall history.

Compensation: Broadcom offers amazing perks to its staff and clients in order to enable the former (staff) to work more productively and the latter, (customer) to increase its patronage.

Affordable products

Despite its quality and durability nature, Broadcom products are quite affordable.

Cons

Rigid policy: According to a Glassdoor review, some employees complain that Broadcom has rigid policies which are sometimes counter-intuitive.

No complimentary benefit on the product: The majority of Broadcom products offer no free trial, as well as premium consulting services. A typical example of this the Broadcom Unified Infrastructure Management.

Conclusion

 No doubt, Broadcom’s astounding and enviable performance in the industry is backed by three major things :

(1) Its collaboration with top tech-savvy brands like Hewlett-Packard (HP), AT&T/Bell labs, and Lucent, hence having a strong root in the tech industry

(2) Its ever-dedicated and talented team of brilliant individuals who are endowed with astounding technical know-how, and (3) its strong mission and core values which are majorly centred on customer satisfaction. However, deducing from this review, Broadcom has achieved a whole lot of astounding milestones since its inception starting from the company’s first-ever product, a light-emitting diode (LED) dot that displays matrix which was launched in 1960, and followed by several other first-in-industry products made the company.

Ultimately, this piece has comprehensively reviewed the tech-leading company, Broadcom Inc. and by extension, all major aspects of the company have been equally addressed. That said, I hope you are able to absorb every detail provided. Additionally, I hope you would agree that Broadcom has all it takes to remain a strong pillar in the tech world due to its pioneering ability, however, on the off chance that the company keeps its momentum just it has since inception, in no time, it would not only be recognized as one of the leading companies in the semiconductor software industry, but by extension, it will become the best and the overall leader of all software solutions across all categories, and therefore continue to launch products that would keep taking the world by surprise, and at the same time help several businesses, both leading and aspiring, to making progressive success in their respective business.