Broadcom Corp.

Broadcom Corp. / Broadcom Inc. — The database entity "Broadcom Corp." is the legacy Broadcom Corporation, the Irvine, California semiconductor maker founded in 1991 that Avago Technologies acquired in 2016; the combined company was rebranded Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO), headquartered at 3421 Hillview Avenue, Palo Alto, California. Broadcom Inc. is a public company with roughly 33,000 employees and fiscal 2025 revenue of about $64 billion; its market capitalization has exceeded $1.5 trillion. CEO is Hock E. Tan. (Sources: Broadcom FY2024 Form 10-K; stockanalysis.com; marketscreener.)

Products / operations — Broadcom is an operating company, not an NPE. It designs and supplies semiconductors and infrastructure software across two segments. Semiconductor lines include Ethernet switching and routing silicon, custom AI/high-performance-computing ASICs, physical-layer (PHY) transceivers and automotive Ethernet, fiber-optic components, RF front-end devices and wireless connectivity, broadband/STB chips, and storage/FC SAN products. Infrastructure software spans mainframe, distributed, cybersecurity and private/hybrid-cloud offerings following the 2023 VMware acquisition. It is fabless, using foundry partners such as TSMC.

Patent-litigation posture — In this dataset Broadcom appears only as plaintiff (2 of 2 cases, 0 as defendant), asserting its own portfolio rather than defending NPE suits. Both tracked matters are affirmative infringement actions, not NPE-style shell assertions: the entity is an IP-holding subsidiary within a product company. Venues are the Central District of California and the Northern District of California — not the Eastern District of Texas.

Notable cases — Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd. et al. v. Amazon.com, Inc. et al. (C.D. Cal., Judge James V. Selna) concerned media/video and networking patents against Amazon and AWS. Broadcom Corp. et al. v. Netflix, Inc. (N.D. Cal., Judge James Donato) is part of a long-running multi-jurisdiction video-coding (HEVC) dispute; the same family of patents has been litigated in Germany and the Netherlands, where several were invalidated. Note that separately Netflix filed its own infringement suit against Broadcom, which was dismissed in 2025 — outside the two tracked records.