īroadcom Corporation acquired ServerWorks Corporation, a maker of chipsets for IA-32-based servers, in 2001 for $957 million. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange (ticker symbol: BRCM) and employs about 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries. In 1995 the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles office to Irvine, California. History Founding and growth Broadcom facility in Cambridge UK, as seen in 2011īroadcom Corporation was founded by professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry Nicholas from UCLA in 1991.
It was acquired by Avago Technologies in 2016 and currently operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of the merged entity Broadcom Inc. Broadcom Corporation was an American fabless semiconductor company that made products for the wireless and broadband communication industry.
