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1991年,拥有美国加利福尼亚大学洛杉矶分校电机工程博士学位的Henry T.Nicholas Ⅲ和Henry Samueli创立了Broadcom(博通)公司。1998年4月Broadcom公开上市时,当时员工总数不足400人,如今,Broadcom已经拥有将近4900名员工,分公司及办事处遍布世界40多个国家,并发展成为全球最大的无生产线半导体公司之一。1997年,Broadcom的年度净收入为3,700万美元,到2005年末,这一数字已经超过了26亿美元。公司在知识产权方面也发展迅猛,1998年公司股票首次公开发行时,Broadcom仅拥有两项美国专利和9项待批准的专利申请。现在,Broadcom拥有的美国专利已经超过了1,600项,在美国和其他国家等待批准的专利申请已经远远超过了5,000项。
In 1991, Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli, who hold a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from the University of California, Los Angeles, founded Broadcom. When Broadcom went public in April 1998 when the total number of employees was less than 400, Broadcom now has nearly 4,900 employees, offices and offices in over 40 countries around the world and has grown to become one of the world’s largest fabless semiconductor companies . In 1997, Broadcom’s annual net income of 37 million US dollars, by the end of 2005, this figure has more than 2.6 billion US dollars. The company is also growing rapidly in terms of intellectual property. In its initial public offering of shares in 1998, Broadcom owned only two U.S. patents and nine pending patent applications. Broadcom now owns more than 1,600 U.S. patents, and far exceeds 5,000 pending patent applications in the United States and other countries.