Broadcom

Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. Broadcom's products enable the delivery of voice, video, data and multimedia to and throughout the home, the office and the mobile environment. Broadcom provides the industry's broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip and software solutions to manufacturers of computing and networking equipment, digital entertainment and broadband access products, and mobile devices.
 
 Broadcom's product line spans computer and telecommunication networking: the company has products for enterprise/metropolitan high-speed networks, as well as products for SOHO (small-office, home-office) networks. Products include transceiver and processor ICs for Ethernet and wireless LANs, cable modems, digital subscriber line (DSL), servers, home networking devices (router, switches, port-concentrators) and cellular phones (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA). It is also known for a series of high-speed encryption co-processors, offloading this processor-intensive work to a dedicated chip, thus greatly speeding up tasks that utilize encryption. This has many practical benefits for e-commerce, and PGP or GPG secure communications.The company also produces ICs for carrier access equipment, audio/video processors for digital set-top boxes and digital video recorders, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi transceivers, and RF receivers/tuners for satellite TV. Major customers include Apple Computer, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, IBM, Dell, Lenovo, Linksys, Logitech, Nintendo, Nokia Siemens Networks, Nortel(Avaya), TiVo and Cisco Systems.
 
 The Broadcom® portfolio is diverse, including:
 • Digital cable and satellite set-top boxes
 • High definition television (HDTV)
 • Cable and DSL modems and residential gateways
 • High-speed transmission and switching for local, metropolitan, wide area and storage networking
 • Home and wireless networking; cellular and terrestrial wireless communications
 • Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) gateway and telephony systems
 • Broadband network and security processors
 • System I/O server solutions