Fast Facts
Employs over 6,800 people worldwide including some of the
most talented engineers in the industry.
With over 100 offices in 14 countries around the globe, Broadcom is committed to
maintaining a multi-cultural, multi-talented, worldwide workforce.
Broadcom's employee turnover ratio is less than 8 percent, compared to the industry
average of 12 percent.
Broadcom enables the competitive advantage with 4,900 engineers, 72% of the total workforce
focused on R&D and 535 employees with PhDs.
Broadcom invested $987.9 million in research and development during 2007, approximately 26% of revenue, amounting to $211,000 per engineer.
Broadcom has the broadest communications product portfolio in the industry with over
20 lines of business and over 300 products in hundreds of applications.
Broadcom ships approximately 1 million chips/units each day to customers around the world.
Broadcom's world-class customers include Apple, Cisco, Dell, HP, IBM, Motorola, Nintendo, Nokia, Nortel.
Broadcom is the largest volume fabless semiconductor supplier.
Broadcom is financially strong, attaining a record revenue of $3.78 billion in 2007, with ending
cash equivalents and marketable securities balance of 2.4 billion.
Broadcom was ranked eighth in the world as having the most powerful patent pipeline of all companies
by IEEE Spectrum magazine in 2007.
Broadcom holds over 3,800 patents worldwide and has more than 7,450 additional pending patent applications,
having amassed one of the broadest intellectual property portfolios addressing both wired and wireless
transmission of voice, video and data.
Broadcom ranked second on Fortune Magazine's list of America's most-admired semiconductor companies in 2007.
To help educate the engineers of the future, Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli
has endowed the Schools of Engineering at both UCLA and UC Irvine.
Broadcom is a proven leader in mixed-signal and CMOS RF technologies,
full-custom processor and DSP design, and state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip (SoC)
implementation.
Broadcom offers the opportunity to work at a company that is driving the
convergence of high-speed data, high-definition video, voice and audio at home,
in the office, and on the go.
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