Broadcom founder Henry Samueli to receive the IEEE’s Medal of Honor award

At an event today in Manhattan and streamed worldwide, the IEEE announced Henry Samueli, one of the two founders of Broadcom, will be the recipient of the organization’s top award, the Medal of Honor for 2025. Aside from the recognition and prestige of joining the list of previous winners (including TSMC founder Morris Chang and GPS developer Bradford Parkinson), the award includes a newly expanded $2 million prize.

While a professor at UCLA at the end of the 1980s Samueli and then-PH.D…