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Broadcom Inc. is an American technology company that designs, develops and supplies semiconductors and infrastructure software. It is headquartered in Palo Alto, California, and its shares trade on Nasdaq under the symbol AVGO.<\/p>\n

The company has become a major supplier of custom chips and networking parts for artificial intelligence. In its 2025 fiscal year it reported revenue of $63.9 billion, up 24 percent, and AI semiconductor revenue rose 74 percent in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n

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Broadcom offices in San Jose, California, 2019. Photo: Coolcaesar, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overview and Founding<\/h3>\n

Today’s Broadcom grew out of Avago Technologies, which became a standalone company on December 1, 2005, when the investment firms KKR and Silver Lake bought the former semiconductor products group of Agilent Technologies. That group traced its customer base back to the years before 1999, when it was part of Hewlett-Packard. The buyers had offered $2.66 billion for the unit, which had net revenue of about $1.8 billion in 2005.<\/p>\n

Hock Tan became Avago’s president and chief executive in March 2006. On February 1, 2016, a new parent, Broadcom Limited, completed the combination of Avago and Broadcom Corporation, and the group took the Broadcom name. Broadcom Corporation had reported net revenue of $8.39 billion for 2015.<\/p>\n

In April 2018 the parent company moved its legal home from Singapore to Delaware and became Broadcom Inc. Shareholders had approved the plan in March 2018, and each Broadcom Limited share was swapped one for one into the new stock.<\/p>\n

Key Milestones<\/h3>\n