Company News \ Broadcom News (rss feed)

Founded Jan 1991
Headquarters Irvine, CA, USA

Latest stock prices

Symbol Name Time Trade Change % Chg Volume P/E Ratio EPS Mkt Cap
BRCM Broadcom 21:00 GMT 37.00 -0.81 -2.14% 7875506 22.92 1.65 20.165B

Latest Broadcom news

  • Shaky semi industry propped up by wireless boom

    Some firms, such as Texas Instruments and Freescale, are already targeting the market, while companies like PicoChip and Broadcom are also readying scaled up versions of system on chip devices from femto bases.
  • Broadcom prepares second coming of wi-fi

    Wireless maker Broadcom is set to announce products with the new IEEE standard 802.11ac in what is being dubbed as the second coming of wi-fi.
  • TSMC might not be ready for AMD

    Altera, AMD, Nvidia, Qualcomm and Xilinx have all contracted TSMC to manufacture their 28nm products. Broadcom, LSI Logic and STMicroelectronics reportedly are among potential clients for TSMC's 28nm technology.
  • Google TV failure scares Intel off TV SoCs

    The television market in general is stuffed in the near term. Broadcom, for example, has announced it doesn't fancy hanging around for the TV video processing chip market to hot up, while Trident thinks a decline in set top box and TV semi sales means it needs to slash its workforce by 20 percent.
  • Broadcom buys chipmaker Netlogic

    Broadcom is planning to write a cheque for $3.7 billion to buy chipmaker Netlogic.
  • Rambus buries patent hatchet with Freescale

    This act of kindness is a rarity for the company, which is well known for raising havoc over alleged patent infringements. It has sued IBM, Nvidia, Broadcom, Freescale, Samsung, LSI, Mediatek, and ST Microelectronics to name a few.
  • SuVolta creates low power transistor

    Fujitsu has announced that it will use the SuVolta technology in all its products and will ship the first chips using it sometime late next year. Broadcom and Cypress are also supposed to be snuffling around.
  • Chip revenues up 30 percent to $300 billion in 2010

    Tenth placed Broadcom enjoyed an impressive year, leapfrogging two places after gaining a 53 percent increase and pushing itself into the top ten for the first time due to good performances in the infrastructure and networking, broadband and mobile markets.
  • Toshiba renews Rambus licence

    News of the licence agreement caused its shares to rise on NASDAQ, closing yesterday at $20.25. Late last year, the US International Trade Commission said it would investigate 34 companies after Rambus filed a lawsuit  against LSI, MediaTek, ST Micro, Broadcom, Freescale and Nvidia, related to PCI E
  • ZTE and Huawei continue world domination with Chinese Gov push

    In November it signed a purchase agreement with five American chipmakers lasting three years and at a cost of $3 billion. Qualcomm, Texas Instruments, Freescale Semiconductor, Altera and Broadcom will all be supplying semiconductors.
  • TSMC increases R&D spend by nearly 50 percent

    This increase secured it the tenth spot on the list, beneath a number of other big names who have been spending big time on research lately. Intel topped the list, with Samsung and STMicro taking second and third slots respectively.
  • Was AMD right to give Meyer the boot?

    3. Completely missing the perspective on handheld space – selling imageon to Qualcomm, Xileon to Broadcom
  • US claims record patent numbers in 2010, IBM leads

    Broadcom Corp
  • RF, universal and customised 3D glasses, Toshiba 3D TV sets

    CES 2011RealD said it is working closely with Freescale and Broadcom to bring in RF connectivity support and expects the new system to go into production in the second quarter, with developer kits being made available in the first quarter.
  • ITC backs Rambus with probe into 34 hardware companies

    LawRambus filed a lawsuit on December 1 against LSI, MediaTek, STMicroelectronics, Broadcom, Freescale Semiconductor and Nvidia, claiming that the companies infringed its patents relating to PCI Express, Serial ATA, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, mobile DDR, and GDDR3 technology.
  • Waiter, there is a United Nations in my Software Licence!

    CommentIn our case, we began this discovery thanks to the formerly Linux-hostile chipset company known as Broadcom, which offers one piece of software dubbed "Widcomm" - a BT software stack for Windows, to be used on machines with the firm's chipset.
  • Femtocell industry to boom in 2011 and beyond

    The growth is largely down to semiconductor company Broadcom's entry into the market with the acquisition of Israeli femtocell firm Percello and renewed femtocell efforts by mobile operators over the last few months.
  • TSMC gives Qualcomm extra wafers for iPhone 5

    Broadcom, NXP Semiconductors and Texas Instruments, also allegedly chip suppliers for next-generation Apple devices, are reported to be producing their chips at TSMC.

More Broadcom news

Other external information

Google Trends, Wikipedia, SEC Filings

Some company information and company logos courtesy of CrunchBase. Stock information provided by Yahoo Finance. All trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
“I want my epitaph to have my name, then 'best before' followed by the date of my death” - The late Clement Freud