November 2015 – The shift to more cloud based processing and traffic management through softwar defined networking (SDN) and network function virtualization (NFV) are encountering increasing challenges in providing optimization for the data traffic. These challenges include having to cross hardware from multiple vendors – Cisco, HP and Juniper – that may reside in the…
September 2014 – At a briefing and demo at their offices in San Jose, Broadcom showed off their new A0 version of the StrataXGX Tomahawk chip. This is a multi-channel 25GE network switch designed for SDN. The 25G interface supports standard copper interconnect for the height of a rack and fiber connections for longer distances….
September 16, 2014, Custom Integrated Circuits Conference, San Jose, CA—Min Gyu Kim from Broadcom described their work in designing a high-dynamic range with low noise and distortion headphone driver. Among the other design constraints, they also had to make the part run on very low power to address the needs of portable device users for…
August 2014 – The diversity of applications in the marketplace for the Internet of Things (IoT) has caused the development world to start from multiple places in order to bring products in the space to market. Companies are starting at the cloud level, app level, sensor level, communication level and processor level to build a…
March 2014 – Broadcom held a briefing on their new microprocessor offerings for the IT and networking marketplace at their headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. As companies shift from in-house networking to using the cloud for both computation and storage, the bottlenecks and challenges that have historically taken place inside the company are now shifting…
December 2012 – Broadcom held their annual pre-CES GeekPeak on new technologies for the coming year in San Francisco, overlapping with the IEDM conference. The sneak peak features both demos of the products in action and in current devices – including the Wii U platform. The presentation covered 6 main trends for 2013 in the…