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Company Description: Avago Technologies U.S. Inc. is located in San Jose, CA, United States and is part of the Semiconductor and Other Electronic Component Manufacturing Industry.

Broadcom is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has 76 office locations across 26 countries.

2016: Acquisition

At closing, which completed on February 1, 2016, Broadcom shareholders held 32% of the new Singapore-based company to be called Broadcom Limited. Hock Tan, Avago President and CEO, was named CEO of the new combined company.

The company is nominally based in Singapore following a 2016 merger between Avago Technologies and California-based Broadcom Corp. that created Broadcom Ltd. But the firm is really headquartered in San Jose, Calif. ... The fact is, though, that more than half of Broadcom's revenues come from China.Mar 13, 2018

Broadcom generates almost $24 billion in annual revenues, and almost 75% of that is derived from its core semiconductor business. Broadcom's products are used in many applications, but the company's core end markets are networking, broadband, enterprise storage, wireless, and industrial.Apr 28, 2021

Under the terms of the definitive agreement, Avago will acquire Broadcom for $17 billion in cash consideration and the economic equivalent of approximately 140 million Avago ordinary shares, valued at $20 billion as of May 27, 2015 , resulting in Broadcom shareholders owning approximately 32% of the combined company.

Qualcomm is a predominantly fabless provider of semiconductor products for wireless communications and data transfer in portable devices. According to the analyst firm Strategy Analytics, Qualcomm has a 39 percent market-share for smartphone application processors and a 50 percent market-share of baseband processors.

Broadcom, however, is Singaporean, not Chinese. In fact, “Broadcom” was once an American company—a California-based semiconductor maker, which Sinapore's Avago Technology announced it would acquire for $37 billion in 2015.Mar 7, 2018