6:01 Their blockbuster product was indeed a clock generator replacing multiple crystals, but not exactly in the way described. It was a programmable RF PLL frequency generator, which was able to generate several different user selectable pixel clocks for a videocard, while using a single crystal as a reference. Most of their products at the time were focused on video and audio generation for personal computers and professional video gear.
I worked as a design engineer at the Frequency Timing Generator Group, ICS, Inc, which then was under Hock Tan. It was a PLL base, and m and n counters, or dividers are a programmable metal layer option. I guess that was the "Franchise" at the time. Had I stayed there, I would have maybe have a chance to be one of the 20,000 employees at the current Broadcom? Maybe and maybe not.
Intel and AMD will definitely have their share of the market. TSMC is at max capacity and investing in other semiconductor companies will be an absolute power move, I keep increasing my shares manageably. Different chips are good at different things and Nvidia has been very specialised, which leaves other aspects of Al open.
certainly, i had bought NVDA shares at $300, $475 cheap b4 the 10 for 1 split and with huge interest I keep adding, i’m currently doings the same for PLTR and AMD constructively. Best possible way to get ahead, is participating behind top experienced performers.
I'm compiling and picking stocks that l'd love to hold on to for a few years before retirement, do you think these stocks would do better over the years? My goal is to have at least $2 million saved for retirement.
You are buying a company to own it and not a piece of paper, The market is a zero-sum game (2 sides), Know what you are buying not just out of trend interest.
Agilent’s layoffs in 2002-2003 were odd. I was one of those laid off, even though our group was making 50% profit year after year. But, alas, we were part of a division that was doing poorly. So everybody had to share in the pain “of being workforce managed.” Struck me as illogical given the success of the group I was in.
@@foobarf8766I am not conspiracy theory minded but some of the happenings in the economic space over the years makes me wonder if the boom and bust cycles are manufactured to benefit some at the expense of others. Now let me remove my tinfoil hat and go watch more YT videos lol
What got Agilent is the same thing that sunk Nortel. There was a major slowdown in telecom expenditures on equipment starting in early 2001. Everything got overbuilt and new technologies squeezed even more bandwidth from existing infrastructure (mostly fibre). So aglient starting pushing inventory into their distribution channels, this is called stuffing the channel.. At the time this could be recorded as revenue because the product had shipped even though it had not been paid for. So along comes the next quarter and Agilents distributors tell them their warehouses are full so Agilent slashes prices and offers credit deals to carriers with low or no interest. They clean out the channel (at a loss) and then push more inventory into it. Well eventually no one wants any more hardware period. Nortel was the first to blink and announce they were taking a one time charge which was due to dead inventory. Soon other players followed suit and that was the death of Nortel and drove others into either bankruptcy or right next to it. In the aftermath I can remember seeing cellular infrastructure for sale at about 10% of its original value.
Hearing about Seagate got their SSD business from LSI is an amazing things. This channel is like a "behind-the-scenes" curtain look at all the actual chips and systems LTT (and others) review and play with. Another excellent video Asianometry!
I hate broadcom for the last 20 years of making net drivers and failing SAN connectivity, that name for me is for Long a nogo, Great to know that Qualcomm shares the shares with broadcom.
There's one more step to the Braedcom cycle of buying a company and then slimming it down by selling parts. They also massively increase prices as seen with VMware recently
Observation: The odd company on the list of the top 12 companies displayed at 0:12 is Saudi Aramco (#4) with share price under $9, while the rest listed are all above $140. It's also a non-tech company in a tech dominated list.
The actual stock price is not an indicator of anything. It’s just market cap divided by shares. SA being $9 and others being more doesn’t tell you anything.
VMWare was a very poorly run business with a great product. If it wasn't Hock wouldn't have bought it, and the value wouldn't have gone up so much when he did.
@micro-organism-pv5gd None of those mentioned are hedge funds. BlackRock and Adobe aren't private equity either. Blackstone is itself not a private equity fund, it is a management company that sponsors private equity funds. You can invest in stock in Blackstone the management company; or if you're an accredited investor, you can invest in one of their funds. Kinda like how most landlords and HOAs hire a property management company. I guess it would be most accurate to call Broadcom a technology oriented leveraged mutual fund. The closest analog would be Berkshire Hathaway, which is technically an insurance company, but the only time it acts like an insurance company is when filing its taxes.
Always wondered how Google made its first chips so fast and successful. Never realized that Google's TPU was actually Broadcom, it makes so much sense now.
The likely reason for this is that the history of Broadcom isn't really that relevant for the company named Broadcom today. They use the name, but that is basically it
My lab has an Agilent Technologies LCMS and HPLC machine. I had no idea about there history or connection to HP. Grate video as alwayse and I hope your friends and family are safe after the earthquake!
They're great products, we had a tough time competing with them in GC & HPLC. They didn't get much traction beyond those analytical techniques, however ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@gus473At one point they also bought Varian, one of the two leading Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy equipment vendors. (The second one was Bruker.) And then they killed it, because NMR machines, expensive as they are, do not sell in very large numbers, unlike HPLC systems.
@@gus473 I was frequently in Palo Alto. Roughly once a month. I was base in Ft Collins. I no longer deal with tests and measurements. Somewhere in all my HP gear is a brand new never been opened HP iPod, and an HP television. Probably a pile of used iPAQ's (we were making them data logging devices). I've worked with some really great engineers at different corporations over the years... but there was a difference around HP Palo Alto.
Great job 👏🏻 on this video. Super complicated timeline, such an interesting and incredible business sector, it’s scary. It is also my long time favorite as an investor, tech and semis.
I'm so glad you've started about technology like filters and the science of waves and frequencies, etc. You are very correct that that stuff is unheralded and quite overlooked, as it is the lynchpin of the digital world today.
They are bad even for enterprise customers now, see what they do with vmware after they acquired it. I would rather have mediatek wifi modules than broadcom ones in phones.
@@viktorbaresic4180 enterprise will be their only customers going forward and every year theyll tighten the noose a little more until theyve wringed every penny out of the husk
Thank you Asianometry! My proffesor has asked me to present the news of Broadcom's recent rise to a trillion dollar market cap, and thanks to you I now know what to say in class! I am very grateful
I remember Broadcom from the days in the mid-1990s when the tiny company I worked for was doing communications ASIC design - we followed the IEEE papers published by BRCM exec Henry Samueli and his grad students at UCLA for cool digital comms techniques. I also remember the minor scandal when his partner exec Henry Nicholas was discovered to have a "sex dungeon" under his LA home and was eventually drummed out of the company for various reasons. It's been a long strange journey for that company.
Indeed SG555 was a Signetics product. But also this product was not representative of the chips which ICS developed. They were making video frequency pixel clock generators, and other similar products, which took a single quartz crystal and allowed to the user to multiply it as needed to produce pixel rate required for a given screen resolution. Since video cards supported multiple resolutions, a variety of pixel clock frequencies were required. Using the programmable PLL solved this problem. One crystal was still needed, to serve as a stable reference.
@@cogoid - yes, the venerable 555 can have its frequency adjusted, but IIRC it couldn’t operate at the frequencies that would be needed by a video clock, but even worse the frequency would not be as stable as a crystal.
@@stevebabiak6997 Yes. Video clock in the era was already getting into 100 MHz range, while the original 555 topped at some 100s of KHz. More importantly, for video applications, the frequency and phase must be very stable, otherwise deviations produce image distortions that are immediately visible. ICS chips offered such stability. I do not think one could do it with an RC based oscillator even if the speed itself were not an issue.
I used to work for the 'Inside' company that now seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, while other well run visionary giants eat their lunch; all having had equal access to the same tech playing field, but some playing soooo much better.
They appear to be planning to milk that cow until it dies. There are a lot of Broadcom/Brocade chips in enterprise servers, so maybe they make enough money from VMware or bare metal, so in the short term it doesn't matter which. In the long run there are other options.
They did the same to Symantec Endpoint Protection. This video doesn’t cover the way Broadcom acquires companies and then immediately smothers vital documentation and guidance which is critical to any software used in enterprise environments. It’s really heartbreaking and frustrating.
17:10 The LSI HBA adapters are also just great. I use an older one in my TrueNAS server, as do many others. However, some of Broadcom's business practices are not stellar; I refer those interested to the VMware acquisition.
I don't really follow the use of the term "franchise" by Hock Tan, which is even illustrated in this video with a photo of a McDonald's restaurant. How are these franchises? They sound more like divisions of the business than franchises. Who would be the franchisees here?
I was thinking exactly the same thing. My comment was going to be: "Franchises. Tan keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means."
@@carterthaxton Yes, I think he is using it like movie "franchises", as in the Spiderman or Batman or other random comic book "franchise". A brand or theme to be milked endlessly until the punters tire of it, VMware customers take note.
I suppose it's because they don't sell directly to consumers, they sell components to businesses who then include them in products and services. And just like a franchisee, once a business commits to using a Broadcom component, they will continue to use it in the future barring some kind of supply chain or quality issue. It's not a perfect analogy but I see where he's coming from.
Probably a funny anecdote: 20 years ago I had a coworker being obsessed with investing in the stock market. He asked me: You are a computer guy, what's the next big thing you can imagine? I said WiFi. (WiFi was still in the third generation and basically worse than the common 100 MBit or GBit Ethernet.) In my new laptop and computer and home there is this chip from a company called Broadcom, that's my best guess. I felt a bit bad giving that advice and learning a few years after that Linux at the time basically hated these WiFi chips. And the ARM processors. But then the company got richer and richer and went on a shopping marathon of accumulating other companies. I would have loved to see his reaction over the last 20 years, first realizing my terrible judgement, then the incredible luck of picking some company name where plenty of others failed.
Interesting factlet: Sophie Wilson, who designed the instruction set architecture of the ARM, has worked for Broadcom for many years. If they _had_ acquired Qualcomm, it would have been something of a "coming home" for her. But of course not as much as if they had acquired Arm!
"Publicly traded private equity-fund masquerading as a semiconductor-company" sums it up nicely :) No mention of the Raspberry-Pi? (Agreed, that the revenues from the Pi are chump change for Broadcom, but don't underestimate the kudos-value (of being affiliated with the RPi) among the geeks that unknowing rule teh interwebs.
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It feels like this 'company' that ended up as Broadcom essentially did nothing, they're just an M&A outfit, they just rearrange deck chairs based on spreadsheets, they had no idea what was going on product-wise, and essentially created nothing.
@@anush_agrawal the channel is based in taipei (usually, i think)
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You shouldn't use market cap to conpare company sizes. Use enterprise value instead. Market cap only takes stock into account. You also want to take bonds into account. If tomorrow Apple shifted their capital structure from equity to bomds, nothing about their business wpuld change. But market cap would change, while enterprise value would stay the same.
The focus on 'solutions' looks neat and tidy to senior managers, but holds back technology. Interesting components that enable progress is not there. That includes the iPhone which is just another mobile phone.
How did Broadcom win the TPU deal back in 2016? they for sure did not see this to be so huge right now, but i guess still some competition back in 2016
The companies for AI chips are a fascinating odd-bunch of ASIC focused solution providers. Broadcom with TPUs (Tensor), NVIDIA with a GPU (Graphics) history. AMD with VPU (Video). Sony (aka Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation) also has announced AI processors based on its ASIC image sensor technology, and has Microsoft partnership. Samsung announced its ASIC AI chips and a Meta partnership. Broadcom established an early Google partnership. Tesla relied on TSMC to manufacture its Dojo D1 chip, but is not selling the chips. The list of competitors in the ASIC AI space-race is rapidly accelerating! (I likely overlooked many others) It will be interesting to see what architectural standards and nomenclature will emerge to handle LLM's and ML to build on top of a silicon foundation.
Broadcom is onto a "nice little earner" where I hope someone will think of competing with it: a light-emitting diode with the lens moulded so that you can plug a fibre-optic lead into it that costs about a hundred times the price of a normal light-emitting diode.
I never knew about Broadcom. My curiosity about Raspberry Pi and VMware brought me here. Kinda wild that Broadcom's market cap is about 8.5 times that of Intel. 😮
Listening to your excellent commentary makes me realize how unqualified I am to analyze these companies as investment opportunities. They can rocket to the moon and then fall to the depths of the ocean and I would have no idea why they did either. But thanks as always for your excellent analysis.
I think India is going about this the wrong way. What India should be doing is paying house owners for allowing a solar power generator company to put solar panels with some built in storage on their roofs and connect it to a power grid. The payment should be by buying power that the house owner does not use, minus the cost of maintaining the solar panels. This would require structural checks of the house roof, evaluation of the solar energy catchment etc. There should be new prefabricated house/flat designs with solar energy requirements built in with the correct orientation and strength and access to roofs, built in space for storage batteries, insulation for efficent use of air-conditioning, and for hign end houses, the use of large glass walls with peroskite solar cells which can generate power and shield too much sun or heat coming through the glass during sunny days and make the glass more transparent during dull or rainy days, to make the inside of the house brighter during dull or rainy days.
If you're interested in a corporate auction saga and how that worked back in the day, read the book "Barbarians at the Gate." Classic. And in it KKR (mentioned in this video) is among the profiled companies.
Before I watch: I have no idea how this company could possibly have a higher market cap than both Intel and AMD combined , and is only barely lower than TSMC Also ... how the f*** does Nvidia have a valuation higher than TSMC, Broadcom , Qualcom , Samsung , ASML, AMD and Intel COMBINED ?
because they make 78% profit on product they sell and have over 250% increase in quarterly revenue vs all the list u mentioned. it has the most important product in the next wave of tech revolution run in cars, phone, computer and server.
Broadcom keeps buying things I care about and then ruining them, so, not a huge fan. Also, it is pronounced VM-ware not VIM-ware, you can't say VI (pronounced V I) or VIM (like it sounds) on the internet less the neckbeards come out of their basements with pitchforks.
"A publicly traded private equity fund masquerading as a semiconductor company." That gave me the aha! moment.
valued like the next NVDA when all it is a roll-up that will surely implode soon
It makes a nice quote.
6:01 Their blockbuster product was indeed a clock generator replacing multiple crystals, but not exactly in the way described. It was a programmable RF PLL frequency generator, which was able to generate several different user selectable pixel clocks for a videocard, while using a single crystal as a reference. Most of their products at the time were focused on video and audio generation for personal computers and professional video gear.
I worked as a design engineer at the Frequency Timing Generator Group, ICS, Inc, which then was under Hock Tan. It was a PLL base, and m and n counters, or dividers are a programmable metal layer option. I guess that was the "Franchise" at the time. Had I stayed there, I would have maybe have a chance to be one of the 20,000 employees at the current Broadcom? Maybe and maybe not.
Intel and AMD will definitely have their share of the market. TSMC is at max capacity and investing in other semiconductor companies will be an absolute power move, I keep increasing my shares manageably. Different chips are good at different things and Nvidia has been very specialised, which leaves other aspects of Al open.
This is the type of in-depth detail on the semiconductor market that investors need, also the right moment to focus on the rewarding AI manifesto.
certainly, i had bought NVDA shares at $300, $475 cheap b4 the 10 for 1 split and with huge interest I keep adding, i’m currently doings the same for PLTR and AMD constructively. Best possible way to get ahead, is participating behind top experienced performers.
I'm compiling and picking stocks that l'd love to hold on to for a few years before retirement, do you think these stocks would do better over the years?
My goal is to have at least $2 million saved for retirement.
You are buying a company to own it and not a piece of paper, The market is a zero-sum game (2 sides), Know what you are buying not just out of trend interest.
Amazingly, people are starting to get the uniqueness of Palantir.
Agilent’s layoffs in 2002-2003 were odd. I was one of those laid off, even though our group was making 50% profit year after year. But, alas, we were part of a division that was doing poorly. So everybody had to share in the pain “of being workforce managed.” Struck me as illogical given the success of the group I was in.
This video had me thinking along the same lines. Not a company I want to work for, if I'll likely be downsized. Unstable is an understatement.
The Dotcom bubble was weird like that I was in assembly at the time, workforce halved but order volume wasn't
@@foobarf8766I am not conspiracy theory minded but some of the happenings in the economic space over the years makes me wonder if the boom and bust cycles are manufactured to benefit some at the expense of others. Now let me remove my tinfoil hat and go watch more YT videos lol
I’m confused. I thought HP split in two in 2015 not 1999.
@@nicklubrino2606 Well, they’ve had a vibrant history of acquisitions and spinoffs.
What got Agilent is the same thing that sunk Nortel. There was a major slowdown in telecom expenditures on equipment starting in early 2001. Everything got overbuilt and new technologies squeezed even more bandwidth from existing infrastructure (mostly fibre). So aglient starting pushing inventory into their distribution channels, this is called stuffing the channel.. At the time this could be recorded as revenue because the product had shipped even though it had not been paid for. So along comes the next quarter and Agilents distributors tell them their warehouses are full so Agilent slashes prices and offers credit deals to carriers with low or no interest. They clean out the channel (at a loss) and then push more inventory into it. Well eventually no one wants any more hardware period. Nortel was the first to blink and announce they were taking a one time charge which was due to dead inventory. Soon other players followed suit and that was the death of Nortel and drove others into either bankruptcy or right next to it. In the aftermath I can remember seeing cellular infrastructure for sale at about 10% of its original value.
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wow. fascinating info. thanks for the share.
Hearing about Seagate got their SSD business from LSI is an amazing things. This channel is like a "behind-the-scenes" curtain look at all the actual chips and systems LTT (and others) review and play with.
Another excellent video Asianometry!
I hate broadcom for the last 20 years of making net drivers and failing SAN connectivity, that name for me is for Long a nogo, Great to know that Qualcomm shares the shares with broadcom.
There's one more step to the Braedcom cycle of buying a company and then slimming it down by selling parts. They also massively increase prices as seen with VMware recently
This was so well done and contextualizes everything I've heard about Broadcomm into a 25 minute video. Well done!
Observation: The odd company on the list of the top 12 companies displayed at 0:12 is Saudi Aramco (#4) with share price under $9, while the rest listed are all above $140. It's also a non-tech company in a tech dominated list.
Splitting shares a lot maybe, so that each existing share becomes multiples and it's easier to sell
The actual stock price is not an indicator of anything. It’s just market cap divided by shares. SA being $9 and others being more doesn’t tell you anything.
7:26 I took that background photo 😮
What a surprise
Love your content and appreciate your hard work!!!!
It's not that long ago, that VMWare could've acquired Broadcom and not the other way around...
Sad to see them choking the life out of it
Lol yeah he said it in the vid, 2014
VMWare was a very poorly run business with a great product. If it wasn't Hock wouldn't have bought it, and the value wouldn't have gone up so much when he did.
@@technokicksyourass @JohnVance I agree
it's also a hedge fund nowadays, too
Not really. It's closer to private equity, which he said at the end of the video. But it doesn't fit that either because it's publicly traded.
@@rightwingsafetysquad9872 Blackstone, KKR, Apollo
@micro-organism-pv5gd None of those mentioned are hedge funds. BlackRock and Adobe aren't private equity either. Blackstone is itself not a private equity fund, it is a management company that sponsors private equity funds. You can invest in stock in Blackstone the management company; or if you're an accredited investor, you can invest in one of their funds. Kinda like how most landlords and HOAs hire a property management company.
I guess it would be most accurate to call Broadcom a technology oriented leveraged mutual fund. The closest analog would be Berkshire Hathaway, which is technically an insurance company, but the only time it acts like an insurance company is when filing its taxes.
Always wondered how Google made its first chips so fast and successful. Never realized that Google's TPU was actually Broadcom, it makes so much sense now.
Wake up babe, Asianometry just dropped a new video
With this posting schedule I'm not getting any sleep
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@@Sum_Tings_Wong takes one to know one, sugar-teats ;)
@@sub-vibes i think I'll stay 😆
@@raygumm You have single handily proven you are indeed, the loser.
I hope you're doing well. When I heard about the earthquake I got worried.
24:42 Best meme quote yet from Asianometry 😂👍
You seem to have missed the entire history of Broadcom Corporation, founded in 1991. Lot's of history here prior to the Avago and Tan Hock days.
He should have put Avago in the title
The likely reason for this is that the history of Broadcom isn't really that relevant for the company named Broadcom today. They use the name, but that is basically it
Very briefly mentioned at 18:01
Avoids the whole Sex Dungeon saga, which is not really the focus of this channel.
@@ryandick9649 Avoids what ?????
My lab has an Agilent Technologies LCMS and HPLC machine. I had no idea about there history or connection to HP. Grate video as alwayse and I hope your friends and family are safe after the earthquake!
They're great products, we had a tough time competing with them in GC & HPLC. They didn't get much traction beyond those analytical techniques, however ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
@@gus473At one point they also bought Varian, one of the two leading Nuclear Magnetic Resonance spectroscopy equipment vendors. (The second one was Bruker.) And then they killed it, because NMR machines, expensive as they are, do not sell in very large numbers, unlike HPLC systems.
It's $1 trillion now
It is mind numbing to see where HP is today. Used to work for them just after they peaked and starting that downward slide.
Got to walk through the instrument R&D operation in Palo Alto "back in the day" and was suitably impressed.... 🤯✌️😎
@@gus473 Still like using Keysight test instruments.
I still remember my HP employee number - it was a numerical palindrome.
@@gus473 I was frequently in Palo Alto. Roughly once a month. I was base in Ft Collins. I no longer deal with tests and measurements. Somewhere in all my HP gear is a brand new never been opened HP iPod, and an HP television. Probably a pile of used iPAQ's (we were making them data logging devices). I've worked with some really great engineers at different corporations over the years... but there was a difference around HP Palo Alto.
@@sub-vibeswhy in the world would you want regression of technology? Technology matches on as it should!
Great job 👏🏻 on this video. Super complicated timeline, such an interesting and incredible business sector, it’s scary. It is also my long time favorite as an investor, tech and semis.
I'm so glad you've started about technology like filters and the science of waves and frequencies, etc. You are very correct that that stuff is unheralded and quite overlooked, as it is the lynchpin of the digital world today.
Nice to see how some of your previous videos ended, with this video, in a small saga.
Excellent conclusion and analysis, Jon!
Best tech channel in the world! Keep posting awesome content!
All my homies hate Broadcom
Evil company
@@AgentOffice amen
They are bad even for enterprise customers now, see what they do with vmware after they acquired it. I would rather have mediatek wifi modules than broadcom ones in phones.
@@viktorbaresic4180 enterprise will be their only customers going forward and every year theyll tighten the noose a little more until theyve wringed every penny out of the husk
Wow I had no idea that was the origin of Agilent, I've used quite a few of there instruments in my time...awesome mass specs
Thank you Asianometry! My proffesor has asked me to present the news of Broadcom's recent rise to a trillion dollar market cap, and thanks to you I now know what to say in class!
I am very grateful
Avago is nothing but a hungry ghost. Look what it is doing to VMware.
I remember Broadcom from the days in the mid-1990s when the tiny company I worked for was doing communications ASIC design - we followed the IEEE papers published by BRCM exec Henry Samueli and his grad students at UCLA for cool digital comms techniques. I also remember the minor scandal when his partner exec Henry Nicholas was discovered to have a "sex dungeon" under his LA home and was eventually drummed out of the company for various reasons. It's been a long strange journey for that company.
... like backdating stock options
In the time of gold rush, it's wise to sell shovels.
Sounds like the 90's all over again
6:26 - Signets is incorrect, that should have said Signetics
Indeed SG555 was a Signetics product. But also this product was not representative of the chips which ICS developed. They were making video frequency pixel clock generators, and other similar products, which took a single quartz crystal and allowed to the user to multiply it as needed to produce pixel rate required for a given screen resolution. Since video cards supported multiple resolutions, a variety of pixel clock frequencies were required. Using the programmable PLL solved this problem. One crystal was still needed, to serve as a stable reference.
@@cogoid - yes, the venerable 555 can have its frequency adjusted, but IIRC it couldn’t operate at the frequencies that would be needed by a video clock, but even worse the frequency would not be as stable as a crystal.
@@stevebabiak6997 Yes. Video clock in the era was already getting into 100 MHz range, while the original 555 topped at some 100s of KHz.
More importantly, for video applications, the frequency and phase must be very stable, otherwise deviations produce image distortions that are immediately visible. ICS chips offered such stability. I do not think one could do it with an RC based oscillator even if the speed itself were not an issue.
I used to work for the 'Inside' company that now seems to be going to hell in a handbasket, while other well run visionary giants eat their lunch; all having had equal access to the same tech playing field, but some playing soooo much better.
Is that a Sinc function in the Broadcom logo?
That's what it looks like to me.
Looks like it, although truncated lol. Although I thought the Cisco logo was a Fourier Transform, turns out it's just the San Francisco bridge.
That's correct. The good ole sin(x)/x function with its nice lim x->0 = 1 value.🤩
Broadcom is killing VMWare
They appear to be planning to milk that cow until it dies. There are a lot of Broadcom/Brocade chips in enterprise servers, so maybe they make enough money from VMware or bare metal, so in the short term it doesn't matter which. In the long run there are other options.
killed not killing
They did the same to Symantec Endpoint Protection.
This video doesn’t cover the way Broadcom acquires companies and then immediately smothers vital documentation and guidance which is critical to any software used in enterprise environments. It’s really heartbreaking and frustrating.
VMWare was already dying imo, Broadcom is just milking it.
Totally
17:10 The LSI HBA adapters are also just great. I use an older one in my TrueNAS server, as do many others. However, some of Broadcom's business practices are not stellar; I refer those interested to the VMware acquisition.
I don't really follow the use of the term "franchise" by Hock Tan, which is even illustrated in this video with a photo of a McDonald's restaurant. How are these franchises? They sound more like divisions of the business than franchises. Who would be the franchisees here?
I was thinking exactly the same thing. My comment was going to be: "Franchises. Tan keeps using that word. I do not think it means what he thinks it means."
Seems like he’s using it more like “brands”. When I think franchise, I think of the business model, not the consumer’s impression.
@@carterthaxton Yes, I think he is using it like movie "franchises", as in the Spiderman or Batman or other random comic book "franchise". A brand or theme to be milked endlessly until the punters tire of it, VMware customers take note.
I suppose it's because they don't sell directly to consumers, they sell components to businesses who then include them in products and services. And just like a franchisee, once a business commits to using a Broadcom component, they will continue to use it in the future barring some kind of supply chain or quality issue. It's not a perfect analogy but I see where he's coming from.
Probably a funny anecdote: 20 years ago I had a coworker being obsessed with investing in the stock market. He asked me: You are a computer guy, what's the next big thing you can imagine? I said WiFi. (WiFi was still in the third generation and basically worse than the common 100 MBit or GBit Ethernet.) In my new laptop and computer and home there is this chip from a company called Broadcom, that's my best guess. I felt a bit bad giving that advice and learning a few years after that Linux at the time basically hated these WiFi chips. And the ARM processors. But then the company got richer and richer and went on a shopping marathon of accumulating other companies.
I would have loved to see his reaction over the last 20 years, first realizing my terrible judgement, then the incredible luck of picking some company name where plenty of others failed.
Interesting factlet: Sophie Wilson, who designed the instruction set architecture of the ARM, has worked for Broadcom for many years. If they _had_ acquired Qualcomm, it would have been something of a "coming home" for her. But of course not as much as if they had acquired Arm!
Thanks for making this video! The story reminds me the ICS clock generator when I designed Intel 386/486 motherboards 20+ years ago!
"Publicly traded private equity-fund masquerading as a semiconductor-company" sums it up nicely :) No mention of the Raspberry-Pi? (Agreed, that the revenues from the Pi are chump change for Broadcom, but don't underestimate the kudos-value (of being affiliated with the RPi) among the geeks that unknowing rule teh interwebs.
Hi, sorry for my poor English, but I like your videos very much and even learn some new words from they. Could you please make a video about Ten Major Construction Projects of the ROC and new Ten, I think it's very interesting subject.
Thank you and greetings from Russian Far East!
I find myself talking about your videos to my friends. So great…. Thank you.
Great work 👏. L really enjoyed this. You earned a sub.😊
I worked there from 2013 to 2016. Great company, they're legit.
Thanks
can you do a video about the company analog devices?
Every Raspberry Pi in the world is based on a Broadcom SoC... (except for the Pico which is only a microcontroller)
Can you please do a video on NXP? I recently started purchasing from them (and vendors) and I would love a breakdown on how they started
It feels like this 'company' that ended up as Broadcom essentially did nothing, they're just an M&A outfit, they just rearrange deck chairs based on spreadsheets, they had no idea what was going on product-wise, and essentially created nothing.
Hope you're okay after the earthquake
What earthquake?
@@Sum_Tings_WongTaiwan
@@Sum_Tings_Wongthere was an earthquake in taiwan
@@anush_agrawal the channel is based in taipei (usually, i think)
You shouldn't use market cap to conpare company sizes. Use enterprise value instead.
Market cap only takes stock into account. You also want to take bonds into account.
If tomorrow Apple shifted their capital structure from equity to bomds, nothing about their business wpuld change. But market cap would change, while enterprise value would stay the same.
The focus on 'solutions' looks neat and tidy to senior managers, but holds back technology. Interesting components that enable progress is not there. That includes the iPhone which is just another mobile phone.
How did Broadcom win the TPU deal back in 2016? they for sure did not see this to be so huge right now, but i guess still some competition back in 2016
Excellent video as always! 🎉😊
1:54 yes Coloradoan is a word
- in Colorado
Came here to say the same. :)
apology accepted for the poor quality of the "potato" around the 9:10 mark.
I am here because my bf just said "Honey, a new Asianometry video just dropped"
He's a keeper.
Does the loser go by @raygumm? Because he is getting his sorry ass handed to himself.
So you like it when he talks dirty.
Unclear if ICS/IDT actually merge with Avago in 2005 ? Or simply, Tan left ICS/IDT for Avago.
I would know Harvard yard if you dropped me there...'Heard of it."
The companies for AI chips are a fascinating odd-bunch of ASIC focused solution providers.
Broadcom with TPUs (Tensor), NVIDIA with a GPU (Graphics) history. AMD with VPU (Video). Sony (aka Sony Semiconductor Solutions Corporation) also has announced AI processors based on its ASIC image sensor technology, and has Microsoft partnership. Samsung announced its ASIC AI chips and a Meta partnership. Broadcom established an early Google partnership. Tesla relied on TSMC to manufacture its Dojo D1 chip, but is not selling the chips.
The list of competitors in the ASIC AI space-race is rapidly accelerating! (I likely overlooked many others)
It will be interesting to see what architectural standards and nomenclature will emerge to handle LLM's and ML to build on top of a silicon foundation.
Excellent coverage! Thank you. Who knew, I was part of this revolution all along 😅
Broadcom is onto a "nice little earner" where I hope someone will think of competing with it: a light-emitting diode with the lens moulded so that you can plug a fibre-optic lead into it that costs about a hundred times the price of a normal light-emitting diode.
Time to update the video title to $1 Trillion 🎉
Good to hear you're ok Jon! I am referring to the latest earthquake in Taiwan obviously. Keep up the great job.
i think my rpi has a chip that has the words, "Broadcom" on it
Love this episode! Thanks!
Hock Tan is the man!
Nvidia Noticing Broadcom custom AI chips is like "Hey wait a minute" meme kid
I never knew about Broadcom. My curiosity about Raspberry Pi and VMware brought me here. Kinda wild that Broadcom's market cap is about 8.5 times that of Intel. 😮
Listening to your excellent commentary makes me realize how unqualified I am to analyze these companies as investment opportunities. They can rocket to the moon and then fall to the depths of the ocean and I would have no idea why they did either. But thanks as always for your excellent analysis.
1:48 Yes, "Coloradoan" is the word. Anyone telling you it's "Coloradan" is lying to you.
"What's with Steve's face?"
He's enjoying the smell of his own farts.
5:20 I think most of us have never seen your face
Closed source drivers for their chips. No thank you
Great content man! I’m super proud and grateful of your beautiful blend of nerd, history, and media presentation skills!
Could you talk about lam research
IPhone is not where it began. The beginning of super smart phones was Nokia, using Symbian. Way before iPhone.
pls tell us what they do in the first 30 secs thanks
What happened to silicon clocks we still use crystals
I think silicon clocks can perform better but they are generally more expensive. So they're usually used in higher end gear.
My chinese tablets from early 2010s using Broadcom CPU. Never found broadcom cpu anymore in device except rpi
Do you play EVE Online? :) I've never heard the term "potato quality" referring to graphics quality aywhere else than in EVE... :D :)
Nice content thanks. Actually Broadcom has 3 own fabs to make compond semiconductor chips that are of monopoly power.
It's telling that VMWare isn't even mentionned here, they are just that big !
I think India is going about this the wrong way. What India should be doing is paying house owners for allowing a solar power generator company to put solar panels with some built in storage on their roofs and connect it to a power grid. The payment should be by buying power that the house owner does not use, minus the cost of maintaining the solar panels. This would require structural checks of the house roof, evaluation of the solar energy catchment etc. There should be new prefabricated house/flat designs with solar energy requirements built in with the correct orientation and strength and access to roofs, built in space for storage batteries, insulation for efficent use of air-conditioning, and for hign end houses, the use of large glass walls with peroskite solar cells which can generate power and shield too much sun or heat coming through the glass during sunny days and make the glass more transparent during dull or rainy days, to make the inside of the house brighter during dull or rainy days.
is ur background in IB or PE?
Great video, thank you 👏👏👏
Who remembers Qualcomm Eudora?
Yes, the e-mail client.
they really auction companies for billions of dollars? idk assumed it would all be back room deal type stuff
If you're interested in a corporate auction saga and how that worked back in the day, read the book "Barbarians at the Gate." Classic. And in it KKR (mentioned in this video) is among the profiled companies.
"Nobody noticed me"
Well- you always not on camera
Broadcom pls make a fkn RUclips or Netflix video play nicely in a browser on the raspberry Pi
yet another fantastic analysis.
Before I watch:
I have no idea how this company could possibly have a higher market cap than both Intel and AMD combined , and is only barely lower than TSMC
Also ... how the f*** does Nvidia have a valuation higher than TSMC, Broadcom , Qualcom , Samsung , ASML, AMD and Intel COMBINED ?
because they make 78% profit on product they sell and have over 250% increase in quarterly revenue vs all the list u mentioned. it has the most important product in the next wave of tech revolution run in cars, phone, computer and server.
Broadcom keeps buying things I care about and then ruining them, so, not a huge fan. Also, it is pronounced VM-ware not VIM-ware, you can't say VI (pronounced V I) or VIM (like it sounds) on the internet less the neckbeards come out of their basements with pitchforks.
WhY DiD GoOgLe Do tHIS?
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Broadcom leadership might just think buying existing research is cheaper than developing home grown research lmao..
Excellent, thankyou.
Great content! Thanks