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Broadcom’s Karen Kahn Honored Amongst Most “Influential Women of California”

 By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: Apr. 18, 2013

Karen Kahn, Broadcom’s Vice President of Corporate Marketing & Communications, has been named one of the “Most Powerful and Influential Women of California” by the California Diversity Council.

In her role at Broadcom, Kahn leads the company’s corporate reputation programs, including the Corporate Design and Branding, Corporate and Product Communications, Employee and Corporate Events and Digital/Social Media programs. Kahn is also executive sponsor of the new Broadcom Women’s Network.

Kahn was honored on Thursday as part of the annual …

Three-Time Winners: Broadcom Again Nabs Market Leadership Award

 By: Greg Scherer Posted: Mar. 04, 2013

The third time is definitely the charm for Broadcom’s Ethernet Controller group.

We’ve again been lauded by IT Brand Pulse, an independent market research firm that conducts surveys to determine end-user perceptions of the top industry vendors. They look at overall market leadership, performance, innovation, reliability, service/support and price.

In the IT Brand Pulse 2013 Brand Leadership Survey, Broadcom not only won the Ethernet Local Area Network-on-Motherboard (LOM) Market Leadership award for the third straight year, we also …

StrataXGS® Trident II Design Team Awarded by Electronic Products

 By: Natalie Martinez Posted: Feb. 07, 2013

It’s not every day that Broadcom’s hardworking engineers get recognized for their innovations, especially when their work deals in the particulars of managing the complex back-end of cloud networks. This week, the team that designed the StrataXGS® Trident II was lauded after the switch series was named one of the 2012 Products of the Year by Electronic Products magazine.

The award is an important triumph in the team’s collective careers, said Jim Harrison, the magazine’s West Coast editor, “as …

3G Mobile Portfolio Nabs Awards in China

 By: Susan Vander May Posted: Jan. 02, 2013

As more users shift from 2G feature phones to sophisticated 3G smartphones — and marching onward to 4G devices, 2013 may herald the first year that smartphones make up more than half of all cellphones shipped globally.  By the end of this year, smartphone shipments are expected to grow 45 percent to more than 717 million units, according to research firm IDC, while sales of feature phones decline.

Part of this growth can be attributed to the immense popularity …

Broadcom Opens 4G World with Best of 4G Award

 By: Tamara Snowden Posted: Oct. 30, 2012

It’s our first year at the 4G World conference and we’re happy to report that we’ll be bringing home an award.

At a ceremony during the Chicago conference last night, Broadcom received a Best of 4G award in the Mobile Backhaul and Core Network Innovation category. The Best of 4G Awards recognize companies driving the adoption of 4G mobile broadband. All submissions were reviewed by an independent panel of judges.

Broadcom won for its BCM56240 small cell switch solution that …

Broadcom’s Community Wi-Fi Named Finalist for Best New Cable Service

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Oct. 08, 2012

The spotlight is on Broadcom’s Community Wi-Fi software service as the newest go-to technology for cable subscribers, according to Light Reading, a top source for news for the communications industry.

Community Wi-Fi was recently named as a finalist in the“Best New Cable Service or Application” category by for Light Reading’s Leading Lights awards. A run down on the technology: Broadcom’s software, coupled with a DOCSIS 3.0-enabled cable set-top box or media gateway allows cable operators to offer on …

Broadcom’s Samueli: How the End of Moore’s Law Impacts the Future of Chip Design

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Sep. 07, 2012

Within a decade, all the information you could ever want to know about your own body could be stored in a tiny chip.

That’s one of the many visions for the future that Broadcom’s Henry Samueli shared with a crowd of some 250 engineers, scientists, designers and students at the Marconi Society’s annual symposium this week.

His insight spanned a number of topics at the event – life after Moore’s Law, the unlocked potential of the human brain and …

Dr. Henry Samueli Awarded Marconi Prize and Fellowship

 By: JP Clark Posted: Sep. 07, 2012

Guglielmo Marconi was a believer. An entrepreneur. A futurist.

As the father of modern communications technology, he was a scientist and great inventor. His passion and pioneering contributions to communications technology changed the world.

In his honor, each year The Marconi Society fellows gather from around the globe to award a prize and fellowship to an individual who carries on the spirit of Marconi through their significant contributions to the advancement of communications for the benefit of society.

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IPTV Revolution in Your Living Room: Broadcom at IBC Amsterdam

 By: Dana Brzozkiewicz Posted: Sep. 04, 2012

The digital revolution is heading for the living room – and at the center of it all are the devices that change the way people not only watch, but also interact, with their televisions.

This week, the top broadcast content providers and broadband technology makers are showcasing the best of the digital TV revolution at the International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam.

Count on seeing Broadcom’s innovative technologies across the show floor, in devices that many of our partners and customers …

Broadcom’s Eben Upton Named Among MIT’s “35 Innovators Under 35″

 By: Natalie Martinez Posted: Aug. 21, 2012

Broadcom’s Eben Upton and his so-simple-it’s-revolutionary Raspberry Pi have been recognized in this year’s class of “35 Innovators Under 35” by MIT’s Technology Review, which seeks young innovators whose “work is likely to be influential for a very long time.”

Upton, Technical Director in the Mobile and Wireless Group at Broadcom’s Cambridge, UK, office, helped create the Raspberry Pi, a $25 computer that’s ripe for tinkering.

Read Broadcom’s news release.

The aim of the affordable device is …

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