By @TechRadar
Publication Date: 2026-01-03 10:00:00
You’d be forgiven for not knowing the name HP Associates, but it now ranks among one of the biggest companies in the world.
This was the semiconductor product division of Hewlett Packard – founded in 1961, it marked the beginning of a long, winding road which eventually culminated in the creation of Broadcom, a modern-day tech behemoth, becoming just one of a select few firms to surpass a $1 trillion dollar market cap in late 2024.
But Broadcom is more than just a chipmaker; since its controversial acquisition of VMware, the company has made notable in-roads into the cloud infrastructure and software industries – so here’s everything you need to know about Broadcom.
From its humble beginnings at Hewlett Packard in 1961, the company remained less of a company and more a business segment at the Silicon Valley giant – at least until 1999, when it split as part of the Agilent Technologies spin-off.
Before long, it was going by another name – Avago Technologies, a…
