Avago Technologies – Active Components

Avago Technologies designs, develops, and supplies analog semiconductors with a focus on compound III-V semiconductor based products. The company offers servers, fiber optics solutions, amplifiers, duplexers and multiplexers, and transistors. Avago Technologies U.S. Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Broadcom Limited.

Avago Technologies is a leading designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog, digital, mixed signal and optoelectronics components and subsystems with a focus in III-V compound semiconductor design and processing. Backed by an extensive portfolio of intellectual property, Avago products serve four primary target markets: wireless communications, wired infrastructure, enterprise storage, and industrial and other.

The company was founded in 1961 as a semiconductor products division of HP. Avago Technologies is a leading global supplier of an extensive range of analog, mixed-signal, and optoelectronic components and subsystems. Avago Technologies products serve the industrial and automotive, wired networking, wireless communications, and computer peripherals markets.
Avago Technologies has acquired PLX Technology. Avago Limited is a leading designer, developer and global supplier of a broad range of analog semiconductor devices with a focus on III-V based products and complex digital and mixed signal CMOS based devices. Avago’s product portfolio is extensive and includes thousands of products in four primary target markets: wireless communications, enterprise storage, wired infrastructure and industrial and other.

On 28 May 2015, Avago announced that it would buy Broadcom Corporation for $37 billion. Avago Technologies Limited took the Broadcom part of the Broadcom Corporation name after acquiring it in January 2016. Broadcom Corporation is a global leader and innovator in semiconductor solutions for wired and wireless communications. Broadcom products seamlessly deliver voice, video, data and multimedia connectivity in the home, office and mobile environments. With one of the industry’s broadest portfolios of state-of-the-art system-on-a-chip solutions, Broadcom is changing the world by connecting everything.