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Keynote Recap: Exploring the Power and Potential of Next-Gen Networking at Interop

 By: Sam Diaz Posted: May. 08, 2013

To get a sense of the excitement, anticipation and even — dare we say it, anxiety — around the fast-approaching Software Defined Networking trend, look no further than this week’s Interop conference in Las Vegas.

The SDN discussion is everywhere  — in the workshops, on the panels, at the show floor booths and, earlier today, the main keynote stage.

Rajiv Ramaswami, executive vice president and general manager of Infrastructure & Networking Group at Broadcom, was joined on Wednesday …

Broadcom “Leans In,” Highlights Women in Leadership

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Apr. 25, 2013

This is what “leaning in” looks like at Broadcom: An event of more than 150 people listen as an elite panel address the incredible dearth of women in engineering and in leadership positions across the country.

These women — some managers, some mothers, some inventors, all engineers — collectively hold nearly a dozen advanced degrees and more than 100 patents. Many have done foundational work in the communications technologies that are used by millions of people around the world each day, such …

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 …

Broadcom’s Eric Brandt in CFO Journal: “Thinking Like an Engineer”

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Feb. 11, 2013

Broadcom is a company that prides itself on its alpha-geek cred: Its employee base is made up mostly of engineers (more than 90 percent of the some 11,000 global workers have engineering backgrounds), many with advanced degrees, industry accolades and long paper trails at the U.S. Patent Office.

Most of the folks in the C-suite have engineering chops, too, including Broadcom Executive Vice President and Chief Finance Officer Eric Brandt. Brandt was profiled this week in the latest issue of …

VentureBeat Interview: Highlights from CES with CTO Henry Samueli

 By: Sarah Murry Posted: Jan. 16, 2013

VentureBeat‘s Dean Takahashi sat down with Broadcom co-founder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer Henry Samueli at the company’s booth during last week’s International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The resulting interview, “Explore the Internet’s future with Broadcom’s broadband pipe dreamer Henry Samueli,” zeroed in on the inevitable bandwidth bottlenecks in the home as consumers demand higher quality video content and expect to watch that content on multiple devices. Samueli talks about how HEVC for Ultra HD TVs and …

CTO Henry Samueli Kicks Off IEEE Conference

 By: Aaron Schmidt Posted: Dec. 04, 2012

“The Happiest Place on Earth” was a lightening rod for some of the world’s most celebrated engineering minds this week.

While Disneyland may seem an odd choice for a gathering of nearly 3,000 electrical engineers, Broadcom cofounder, Chairman and Chief Technical Officer Henry Samueli had no problem convincing the elite group of the real “magic” in the amazing advances in communications technology over the past two decades.

His keynote speech on Tuesday, which opened the Institute of Electrical and Electronics …

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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Broadcom MASTERS® Finalists Heading to Washington for Science Fair Face-Off

 By: Jen Baumgartner Posted: Aug. 29, 2012

Some of the nation’s most promising future scientists and engineers have been selected as finalists for this year’s Broadcom MASTERS® program, a premier science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) competition for middle school students and will travel to Washington, D.C. next month for a week-long MASTERS event.

From September 28 to October 3, the finalists will showcase their projects and take part in hands-on STEM activities and compete for cash prizes. However, for the students, Broadcom MASTERS week is not just about …

A Strategic Partnership: Broadcom & NetLogic (Part 3 of 3)

 By: Sam Diaz Posted: Aug. 10, 2012

Broadcom acquired NetLogic Microsystems Inc. in May of 2012. The Santa Clara-based company was incorporated in into Broadcom’s Infrasstructure and Networking Group (ING) to provide a more complete solution for mobile infrastructure — including switches, microwave backhaul and more.

In this video, I talk with Broadcom’s Rajiv Ramaswami (Executive Vice President, General Manager, ING) and Ron Jankov (formerly NetLogic’s CEO, now Senior VP & GM of Processors and Wireless Infrastructure in the ING business unit) about the perks of the …

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