Broadcom Corporation is a leading supplier of highly integrated, system-level silicon solutions, which enable broadband digital communications to the home and within the business enterprise.
The company's products enable the high-speed transmission of data over existing communications infrastructures, most of which were not originally intended for digital data transmission.
Using proprietary technologies and advanced design methodologies, the company has developed ICs for some of the most significant broadband communications markets including the markets for cable set-top boxes, cable modems, high-speed networking, satellite and terrestrial digital broadcast, and digital subscriber line [xDSL] applications.
Broadcom acquired Epigram in April 1999 to get high-speed home phoneline based networking technology. Armedia was acquired by Broadcom in May 1999 and is now known as Broadcom India Pvt. Ltd. Other strategic acquisitions include VisionTech [supplier of digital/audio MPEG-2 compression and decompression chips enabling Personal Video Recording (PVR), interactive videoconferencing, and Internet Protocol (IP) video streaming for the consumer electronics market]; SiByte [a developer of high-performance microprocessor solutions for broadband networking];Altima Communications [a supplier of networking integrated circuits for the small-to-medium business networking market].
The company is headquartered in Irvine [California].
Its shares are traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol: BRCM.
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