Broadcom Inc. designs develops and supplies various semiconductor devices with a focus on complex digital and mixed signal complementary metal oxide semiconductor based devices and analog III-V based products worldwide. The company operates in two segments Semiconductor Solutions and Infrastructure Software. It provides set-top box system-on-chips (SoCs); cable digital subscriber line and passive optical networking central office/consumer premise equipment SoCs; wireless local area network access point SoCs; Ethernet switching and routing custom silicon solutions; serializer/deserializer application specific integrated circuits; optical and copper and physical layer devices; and fiber optic components and RF semiconductor devices. The company also offers RF front end modules and filter; Wi-Fi Bluetooth and global positioning system/global navigation satellite system SoCs; custom touch controllers; inductive charging; attached small computer system interface and redundant array of independent disks controllers and adapters; peripheral component interconnect express; fiber channel host bus adapters; read channel based SoCs; custom flash controllers; preamplifiers; optocouplers industrial fiber optics and motion control encoders and subsystems; light emitting diode ethernet PHYs switch ICs and camera microcontrollers. Its products are used in various applications including enterprise and data center networking home connectivity set-top boxes broadband access telecommunication equipment smartphones and base stations data center servers and storage systems factory automation power generation and alternative energy systems and electronic displays. Broadcom Inc. was founded in 1961 and is headquartered in Palo Alto California.