[adventured]

How is Avago virtually unknown?

They derive from HP and Agilent Technologies, along with LSI. Pieced together originally by KKR & Silver Lake. Realistically it's a half century old entity. They then moved the corporation official seat to Singapore for various strategic reasons.

[airesQ]

Calling Avago "virtually unknown" might have been too dismissive from my part.

But lets consider 2013. Avago had a revenue of $2.5bn, respectable, but that's not much when compared with Qualcomm's $24.9bn, less than Broadcom's $8.3bn, NXP's $4.8bn, and Freescale's $4.1bn.

In fact it seems that at least when it came to revenues, Avago was the smallest company on that list.

[skinnymuch]

Pretty cool to see those revenue numbers. I assumed Avago would have been bigger revenue wise than NXP and Freescale (even with assuming you're using 2016 not 2013 revenue for them)

[qeternity]

That's how leveraged buyouts work.

[Cthulhu_]

Can't charge taxes if it doesn't have revenue I guess.

[AndrewKemendo]

How is Avago virtually unknown?

Unsure who you think should or would know Avago, but I am fairly certain they are far from a household name like HP is.

[mynameisvlad]

I mean, if we go "household name" then I highly doubt NXP, Freescale, Broadcom or Qualcomm would make that list.

People don't usually research who makes the chips in their doohickeys and gizmos.

[skinnymuch]

Qualcomm has had commercials. Sometimes in pricey spots. They also have or had one or two stadium naming rights. So at least they'd be known by name (vaguely) by a decent percentage of Americans. Though would they know what Qualcomm does at all like even just "something with mobile devices"? No clue.

Not really a retort. Just Qualcomm is at least known perhaps more than all the other companies combined. As little as that's worth.

[AndrewKemendo]

Yea agreed - which is why it seems silly to even bring up.

[ajcodez]

For those unaware, KKR is the leveraged buyout king made famous in "Barbarians at the Gate".