- Access Control
- Access Management
- AI infrastructure
- Application
- Application-Specific Integrated Circuit
- Authentication
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- Capacity Planning
- Carrier Networks
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- Cybersecurity
- Data Center
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- Ethernet Switching
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15 Broadcom appears across 15 articles in the last 90 days, most recently in Broadcom Inc. launches VMware HyperArmor for ESX (Oct 2026).
Who is Broadcom?
Broadcom Inc. is a global technology company that designs, develops, and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions for data center, networking, broadband, wireless, storage, mainframe, and enterprise environments.
- Broadband, wireless, and networking semiconductors for carrier, cloud, and enterprise infrastructure
- Custom and standard ASICs and SoCs for data center, networking, and storage workloads
- Enterprise infrastructure software across mainframe, distributed, and hybrid cloud environments
- Cybersecurity, identity, and access management software for enterprise and service provider use cases
- Storage, observability, and IT Operations Management (ITOM) software for on-premises (on-prem) and multi-cloud architectures
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More About Broadcom
Broadcom Inc. provides a portfolio that spans semiconductor devices and infrastructure software, targeting enterprise IT, cloud providers, telecommunications operators, and hardware OEMs that build large-scale digital infrastructure platforms. Its semiconductor portfolio includes chips for networking, broadband access, wireless connectivity, and storage, which are commonly deployed in data centers, campus and carrier networks, home and business broadband gateways, and mobile or Internet of Things (IoT) devices. These products are used in switching, routing, Wi‑Fi, Ethernet, fiber optics, and storage interconnect environments, and are integrated into systems that implement standard protocols such as Ethernet, PCI Express (PCIe), Fibre Channel (FC), and various wireless standards.
In networking and broadband, Broadcom supplies components such as Ethernet switching and routing silicon, PHYs, and Wi‑Fi and broadband access chipsets (networking and connectivity). These devices underpin architectures used in enterprise LANs, service provider backbones, and cloud data centers, supporting network segmentation, Quality of Service (QoS), and telemetry features through standard and widely adopted switching and routing stacks. Storage-related products (storage and interconnect) include controllers and interface devices that connect servers, storage arrays, and backup systems, and that are used in SAN and Direct-Attached Storage (DAS) architectures within enterprise and hyperscale environments.
Broadcom also delivers custom and standard Application-Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC) and SoC offerings (compute and acceleration), which are used by hyperscale cloud operators, networking vendors, and large enterprises to build optimized hardware platforms for routing, security appliances, and specialized compute or acceleration tasks. These ASICs are designed to support high-throughput, low-latency packet processing and offload functions within standardized data center architectures, often sitting alongside general-purpose CPUs and merchant silicon in leaf-spine and Clos network topologies.
On the software side, Broadcom provides enterprise infrastructure software that covers mainframe, distributed, and hybrid cloud environments (infrastructure software). This portfolio includes tools for application performance monitoring, observability, workload automation, Application Programming Interface (API) management, and software lifecycle management that integrate with common enterprise architectures and Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD) pipelines. Mainframe and enterprise server customers use these products to manage batch workloads, transaction processing, and performance across heterogeneous environments.
Broadcom’s cybersecurity and identity offerings (security and identity) address enterprise access control, API security, and policy enforcement across on-prem and cloud applications. These tools are used to implement zero-trust-aligned architectures, federated identity, and secure access to web and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) applications, and commonly integrate with directory services, Single Sign-On (SSO) frameworks, and modern authentication protocols. Additional IT operations and AIOps-oriented tools (IT operations and observability) provide monitoring, event correlation, and capacity planning across networks, infrastructure, and applications, positioning Broadcom in marketplace categories such as observability, IT service operations, infrastructure management, and mainframe and enterprise DevOps tooling.
Our description of Broadcom. Updated December 2025.
