Broadcom Corp (NASDAQ:BRCM)

Broadcom Corp. provides semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Its products deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environment. The company provides the industry's broadest portfolio of system-on-a-chip, and software solutions. It operates through three business segments: Broadband Communications, Mobile & Wireless and Infrastructure & Networking. The Broadband Communications segment is a complete solutions for cable, xDSL, fiber, satellite and IP broadband networks to enable the connected home, including set-top-boxes and media servers, residential modems and gateways, small and residential cells and wired home networking solutions. The Mobile & Wireless segment is a low-power, high-performance and highly integrated solutions powering the mobile and wireless ecosystem, including Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, cellular SoCs, personal navigation and global positioning, near field communications (NFC), Voice over IP (VoIP), and mobile power management solutions. The Infrastructure & Networking segment is a highly integrated solutions for carriers, service providers, enterprises, small-to-medium businesses and data centers for network infrastructure needs, including Ethernet switches, physical layer devices (PHYs), multicore embedded processors, knowledge-based processors (KBP), digital front ends for wireless infrastructure, switch fabric solutions, high-speed Ethernet controllers and microwave backhaul devices. Broadcom was founded by Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli on August 16, 1991 and is headquartered in Irvine, CA.