The 2013 Fortune 500 list of U.S. companies was released this week, with Broadcom moving up 17 notches on the list to No. 327, up from No. 344 in 2012. It’s the fifth year that Broadcom has been on the list, steadily growing in ranking and revenue since its initial listing at No. 495 in 2009.
The list, which has been published since 1955, ranks U.S. companies by fiscal year revenue, but also looks at profits, headcount and other …
Thanks to Broadcom, in part, wireless technologies such as Bluetooth and Wi-Fi have become household names.
The company was recently given a nod for its market leadership in each of those well-known wireless technologies by London’s ABI research.
Broadcom ranked No. 1 in three Competitive Assessments conducted by the researcher, namely wireless connectivity, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi integrated circuits (ICs).
From the ABI release:
“Broadcom is the market leader for wireless connectivity ICs, with by far the largest
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Things got seriously geeky during one of the hundreds of specialized breakout sessions at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
Certainly, everyone here at the show wants to know what the next big thing will be. So it’s no surprise that a panel called “Six Wireless Technology You’ll Want to Know” would attract a standing-room-only audience.
Among those talking shop and debating the future of wireless tech was Broadcom’s own Michael Hurlston, senior vice president and general manager of wireless …
The technology practically jumps out at you when you walk into Broadcom’s booth at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
As the annual CES show kicked off in Las Vegas, a flood of industry analysts, reporters, customers and executives converged on the the company’s red-emblazoned private booth, complete with 350 linear feet of live demos. All were there to gawk at Broadcom’s latest and greatest connectivity-related designs, which will roll out in consumer devices over the next year and a half.…
It’s a big world out there. Broadcom recognizes that the love of — and the demand for — the latest and greatest consumer electronics technologies knows no geographic bounds.
As Broadcom heads to Las Vegas for the International Consumer Electronics show this week — where the gadget pageantry is set to dominate the tech media in the U.S. — we’re looking beyond Western borders.
Broadcom’s products are found everywhere on the planet, from urban corporate data centers and the cloud, …
When it comes to online connectivity, are you more of a “Always On” consumer, a “Live Wire,” or a “Never-Minder?”
A new study commissioned by Broadcom to explore the ways that Americans use technology to connect with each other revealed seven distinct connectivity styles, defined by two key dimensions: Connectivity, or the level of device and social media use, and behavior, or how Web-enabled devices and online platforms are used to connect to others.
“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 …
Near Field Communication (NFC) technology has been touted as the key to unlocking mobile payments. And although the “digital wallet”—where payment information can be transmitted with the tap of a smartphone— is predicted to be the big future payment method of choice, potential for this transformative technology is much greater and broader, with more immediate applications today at the device-to-device level.
Now, NFC technology is about to spread it wings and push its way into the mainstream. Google, which is …
Broadcom’s mission of “Connecting everything®” goes far beyond pioneering technology. It extends into the communities in which our employees live and work — and the world at large.
An interconnected world means we have a responsibility to be as transparent as possible about the company’s environmental impact and do our part as a good global corporate citizen, too.
A big part of corporate citizenship is the public reporting of policies and performance related to the environment, which …
Sharing content wirelessly across devices should be a seamless process that just works.
Now, through a new display certification program by the Wi-Fi Alliance, dubbed Miracast™, there’s an effort underway to standardize how Wi-Fi-enabled smartphones, TVs, laptops and tablets “talk” to each other.
The idea is for consumers to be able to send, share and stream content between Wi-Fi connected devices seamlessly, without an intermediate box such as a router or gateway. Think of Miracast as a seal …
