Broadcom Inc. was created in 2016 by merging Avago Technologies with Broadcom Corporation.
Avago Technologies completed its acquisition of Broadcom Corporation in February 2016. The combined company adopted the Broadcom Inc. name and became a major supplier of semiconductors and infrastructure software. Its products support communications, networking, storage, broadband, wireless systems, and data centers.
The transaction is easy to misread because Avago was the acquiring company, yet the combined business used the better-known Broadcom name. Broadcom Inc. is also distinct from Broadcom Corporation, the older semiconductor company that Avago acquired.
Broadcom has appeared among the world’s largest publicly traded companies by market capitalization, particularly as demand for networking, custom chips, and AI-related infrastructure increased. Its ticker symbol is AVGO, while Qualcomm, Marvell, and MediaTek are separate semiconductor companies.