NEC, Toshiba and SiByte ( later acquired by Broadcom ) each obtained licenses for the MIPS64 as soon as it was announced.

The original HomePNA 1. 0 technology was developed by Tut Systems in the 1990s ; HomePNA 2. 0 was developed by Epigram ; HomePNA 3. 0 was developed by Broadcom ( which had purchased Epigram ) and Coppergate Communications ; and HomePNA 3. 1 was developed by Coppergate Communications.

In 2005, Qualcomm, which was the assignee of and, sued Broadcom in US District Court, alleging that Broadcom infringed the two patents by making products that were compliant with the H. 264 video compression standard.

DOCSIS was developed by CableLabs and contributing companies including ARRIS, BigBand Networks, Broadcom, Cisco, Conexant, Correlant, Harmonic, Intel, Motorola, Netgear, Technicolor, Terayon, and Texas Instruments.

In 2011, Broadcom was No. 343 on the Fortune 500, climbing 117 places from its 2010 ranking of No. 460.

The deal was Broadcom ’ s largest ever ( at the time of acquisition ) and its seventh acquisition in the year 2000.

It was founded in 2001 by Advanced Micro Devices, Alliance Semiconductor, Apple Computer, Broadcom Corporation, Cisco Systems, NVIDIA, PMC-Sierra, Sun Microsystems, and Transmeta.

Numerous devices have been produced by Integrated Device Technology, Cypress Semiconductor, IBM, Broadcom and others to the LA interface agreement.

* SecureEasySetup, a technology developed by Broadcom to easily set up wireless LANs with Wi-Fi Protected Access

These claims were cited in a 2007 lawsuit filed by Broadcom against Qualcomm.

Broadcom is among Gartner's Top 10 Semiconductor Vendors by revenue.

On May 15, 2008, Samueli, Broadcom CTO, resigned as chairman of the board and took of a leave of absence as Chief Technology Officer after being named in a civil complaint by the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission ( SEC ).

They found that these Qualcomm microchips infringe patents owned by Broadcom.

Much of the current work on TOE technology is by manufacturers of 10 Gigabit Ethernet interface cards, such as Alacritech, Intilop corporation, Broadcom, Chelsio Communications, Emulex, LeWiz Communications, Mellanox Technologies, Neterion Technologies, QLogic and Tehuti Networks Ltd.

* Epigram ( 1996 )-inventor of HomePNA, a local area network implemented over POTS, acquired by Broadcom

Other successful spin-offs include Alphamosaic and Inca, who have subsequently been acquired by Broadcom for US $ 123 million and Dainippon Screen for € 43. 8 million, respectively.

There are 8 permanent representatives from the following companies: Broadcom, Intel, Microsoft, Nokia, Panasonic, Samsung Electronics, Sony Electronics, Technicolor and one elected representative selected by the promoter members.

* Common Firmware Environment, a bootloader developed by Broadcom for their system-on-a-chip products

In 2005, Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli of Irvine, California, and his wife, Susan, bought the Mighty Ducks from The Walt Disney Company for a reported $ 75 million ( USD ).

On June 5, 2008, Broadcom co-founder and former CEO Henry Nicholas and former CFO William Ruehle were indicted on charges of illegal stock-option backdating.

Broadcom chairman and billionaire, Henry Samueli, owns the company that operates the arena, Anaheim Arena Management, LLC, and the arena's primary tenant, the Ducks, giving him great flexibility in scheduling events and recruiting new tenants.

Henry Samueli ( born September 20, 1954 in Buffalo, New York ) is co-founder, senior vice president, and chief technology officer of the Broadcom Corporation, owner of the Anaheim Ducks, and a prominent philanthropist in the Orange County, California community.

In 1991, while still working as a professor at UCLA, Samueli co-founded his company, Broadcom Corporation, with one of his former students, Henry Nicholas.

Before starting Broadcom, Henry Samueli ran the department of engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the couple continues to support the UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science and the Henry Samueli School of Engineering at the University of California, Irvine.

During the technology boom in the 2000s, Samueli and Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III awarded millions of stock options to attract and reward employees.

In 2005, it agreed to sell the Mighty Ducks to Broadcom co-founder and billionaire Henry Samueli.

In 1998, when Broadcom became a publicly traded company, Samueli stopped working as a professor, but the UCLA Department of Electrical Engineering still maintains his name on the list of faculty.

Although an internal Broadcom investigation cleared Samueli in mid-February 2007, Samueli hired his own attorney confirming that " the company and Samueli were responding to investigators separately ".

The promoter members are: ACCESS, AT & T Labs, Awox, Broadcom, Cisco Systems, Comcast, DIRECTV, Dolby Laboratories, Ericsson, Hewlett-Packard, Huawei, Intel, LG Electronics, Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Panasonic, Promise Technology, Qualcomm, Samsung Electronics, Sharp Corporation, Sony Electronics, Technicolor, and Verizon.

After graduating, Jafarkhani joined AT & T Laboratories-Research in August 1997 before moving to Broadcom in July 2000 and to the University of California, Irvine in September 2001.

MIPS architecture processors include: IDT RC32438 ; ATI / AMD Xilleon ; Alchemy Au1000, 1100, 1200 ; Broadcom Sentry5 ; RMI XLR7xx, Cavium Octeon CN30xx, CN31xx, CN36xx, CN38xx and CN5xxx ; Infineon Technologies EasyPort, Amazon, Danube, ADM5120, WildPass, INCA-IP, INCA-IP2 ; Microchip Technology PIC32 ; NEC EMMA and EMMA2, NEC VR4181A, VR4121, VR4122, VR4181A, VR5432, VR5500 ; Oak Technologies Generation ; PMC-Sierra RM11200 ; QuickLogic QuickMIPS ESP ; Toshiba Donau, Toshiba TMPR492x, TX4925, TX9956, TX7901.

Other licensees include Broadcom, which has developed MIPS-based CPUs for over a decade, Microchip Technology, which leverages MIPS processors for its 32-bit PIC32 microcontrollers, and Mobileye, whose EyeQ2 and EyeQ3 are based on cores licensed from MIPS.

Companies that are current or former ARM licensees include Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Alcatel-Lucent, Apple Inc., AppliedMicro, Atmel, Broadcom, Cirrus Logic, CSR_plc, Digital Equipment Corporation, Ember, Energy Micro, Freescale, Intel ( through DEC ), LG, Marvell Technology Group, Microsemi, Microsoft, NEC, Nintendo, Nuvoton, Nvidia, Sony, NXP ( formerly Philips Semiconductor ), Oki, ON Semiconductor, Psion, Qualcomm, Renesas, Research In Motion, Samsung, Sharp, Silicon Labs, ST-Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Symbios Logic, Texas Instruments, VLSI Technology, Yamaha, Fuzhou Rockchip, and ZiiLABS.

Morgan Stanley has long had a dominant role in technology investment banking and, in addition to Apple and Facebook, served as lead underwriter for many of the largest global tech IPOs, including: Netscape, Cisco, Compaq, Broadcast. com, Broadcom Corp, VeriSign, Inc., Cogent, Inc., Dolby Laboratories, Priceline, Salesforce, Brocade, Google and Groupon.

* Ericsson SmartEdge routers ( SEOS 11 run NetBSD 3. 0 and VxWorks for Broadcom BCM1480 version 5. 5. 1 kernel version 2. 6 )

Intel is promoting this standard, while Atheros and Broadcom are still focused largely on 802. 11.

Current manufacturers of chipsets for x86 motherboards include AMD, Broadcom, Intel, NVIDIA, SiS and VIA Technologies.

Today, de Raadt encourages wireless users to " buy Taiwanese ", due to lack of willingness from US companies like Intel and Broadcom to release firmware images free from licensing restrictions.

* SiByte MIPS cpus from Broadcom

The DOCSIS standard included functional elements from the LANcity provisioning process ( DHCP / TFTP / TOD ), the Motorola 64 QAM set top boxes with Broadcom chipsets, and the Motorola Proprietary cable modem system ( elements of the upstream MAC / PHY layer ).

The Broadcom logo is inspired from the Mathematical Sinc function

The latest Broadcom Trident + ASIC is used in many high-speed / 10Gb + switches from the largest switch-vendors such as: Cisco Nexus switches running NX-OS, or the Dell Force10 running FTOS.

On July 14, 2006, Broadcom announced it had to subtract $ 750, 000, 000 from earnings due to stock options irregularities.

More often, the articles describe the internal design and feature set of microprocessors from vendors such as Intel, Broadcom, and Qualcomm.

The Board of Directors of the PCI-SIG has representatives from: Intel, Microsoft, IBM, AMD, Sun Micro, HP, Broadcom, Agilent Technologies, and NVIDIA.

It is possible to configure teaming with BACS with a mix of NIC's from different vendors as long as at least one of them is Broadcom and the other NIC's do have the required capabilities to create teaming.

Since then, Tyan has produced a number of single and multi-processor ( as well as multi-core ) products using technology from many well-known companies ( e. g. Intel, AMD, NVIDIA, Broadcom and many more ).