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A jury was set Friday to hear opening statements in the federal trial of former Broadcom Corp. Chief Financial Officer William Ruehle, who faces conspiracy and fraud charges in an alleged scheme to backdate stock options.
Shares of Broadcom Corp. plunged Friday as investors were spooked by the chip maker's latest quarterly results and indications that sales may remain stagnant into 2010.
Broadcom Corp. said Thursday its third-quarter earnings were cut in half as revenue tumbled, and the chip maker warned that sales are trending flat sequentially for the current period leading into the holidays.
A federal appeals court has reversed a judge's decision to exclude evidence from the trial of a former Broadcom Corp. executive charged in an alleged stock options backdating scheme.
Broadcom Corp. is dropping its attempted takeover of Emulex Corp. following a unanimous vote by the network gear maker's board to reject Broadcom's sweetened offer.
Chip designer Broadcom Corp. has boosted its hostile takeover offer for network gear maker Emulex Corp. to about $912 million from $764 million.
The proxy advisory firm Glass Lewis & Co. has come down against a proposal by Broadcom Corp. that would allow a special meeting of Emulex Corp. shareholders to discuss Broadcom's takeover offer.
Broadcom Corp. could reassess the price of its unsolicited takeover of Emulex Corp., which had called its $764 million offer as inadequate, if given nonpublic information to justify a new bid, according to a regulatory filing made Tuesday.
Broadcom co-founder Henry Nicholas III is speaking out in hopes of clearing his name after federal prosecutors accused the billionaire of throwing drug parties and slipping ecstasy into the drinks of business associates.
Chip maker Qualcomm Inc. said late Sunday it will pay Broadcom Corp. $891 million over four years to settle a longstanding dispute over patents and royalties.
Chip maker Qualcomm Inc. delayed its quarterly earnings report Wednesday because it's in "advanced" settlement talks with rival Broadcom Corp. over patents and royalties.
Chip designer Broadcom Corp. is launching a $764 million hostile takeover offer for network gear maker Emulex Corp. Broadcom said Tuesday the deal would help it develop new technologies for corporate data centers.
Broadcom Corp. Chief Executive Scott McGregor received a compensation package valued at $6.6 million in 2008, down 8 percent from the previous year, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing Monday.
A federal court has dismissed a request by Broadcom Corp. to declare some of Qualcomm Inc.'s patents on wireless chips "exhausted and unenforceable."
Broadcom Corp. fell to a $159.2 million loss in the fourth quarter as the chip designer took big charges for an acquisition and a write-down in a division's value.
An e-mail in which Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III allegedly talks about a drug binge can be used as evidence during his criminal trial, a federal judge ruled.
The ex-wife of Broadcom co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III filed a lawsuit Wednesday seeking control of their joint trust, alleging he squandered their money and threatened to have her killed.
An attorney who worked for indicted Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry T. Nicholas III has pleaded guilty to evading a banking law and will cooperate with the federal government in a sweeping stock options backdating probe involving his former boss.
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. said Tuesday it had completed the sale of its unit that makes chips for digital TV sets to fellow chip maker Broadcom Corp. for a reduced price of $141.5 million in cash.
A federal appeals court Tuesday ruled that the International Trade Commission's ban on imports of cell phones with chips made by Qualcomm Inc. overstepped the commission's authority.
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli is gambling that an appeals court will accept a plea deal that would spare him prison time in one of the nation's largest stock options backdating cases.
Telecommunications chip maker Broadcom Corp. said Wednesday an appeals court upheld a May 2007 jury verdict that rival Qualcomm Inc. violated two of its patents. A third patent was found to be invalid.
A federal judge Monday rejected a plea deal that had called for Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli to get probation rather than prison for his role in a stock options backdating case that led to the largest corporate writedown of its kind.
A federal judge ruled that Qualcomm Inc. violated a ban on wireless technology owned by rival chip maker Broadcom Corp., the companies said Thursday.
Broadcom Corp. co-founder Henry Samueli has apologized for lying to the Securities and Exchange Commission during its probe of stock options backdating at the chip maker.
The fall of IndyMacIn what could turn out to be the most expensive bank failure ever, troubled mortgage lender IndyMac Bancorp Inc. was taken over by federal regulators on Friday.
Broadcom touts new "3G phone on a chip," could show up in 3G iPhoneSemiconductor firm Broadcom has become the first chipmaker to announce a single-chip 3G phone solution. Dubbed the BCM21551, Broadcom's "3G phone on a chip" moves all of the tech needed for a 3G mobile phone to a single 65nm die, and it's available today.
Billionaire sought secret lair for sex, drugsFlush with wealth from Broadcom Corp.'s 1998 public stock offering, Henry T. Nicholas III made a few additions to his estate: hidden doors and secret levers, an underground grotto.
Qualcomm files for emergency stay on ITC banQualcomm Inc. said on Monday it filed a request for an emergency stay of a U.S. International Trade Commission ban on the import of some phones containing Qualcomm chips.
The chips inside the AppleTVSo which semiconductor vendors did Apple Inc. tap for its AppleTV device?
Report: U.S. may charge ex-execs at Broadcom, Apple Federal prosecutors are strongly considering criminal charges against former executives of Broadcom, Apple, and KLA-Tencor, related to the backdating of stock options, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the situation.
No Intel in the iPhoneTAIPEI, Taiwan — Hours after Steve Jobs unveiled Apple's iPhone, analysts were busy speculating on which semiconductor vendors and system houses have notched up design wins and manufacturing contracts.
After a posting and inside look at the trials and tribulations of 802.11n chip makers, I had a follow up conversation with Mahesh Venkatraman, Senior Technology Marketing Manager for Marvell. The company says that its 802.11n chipset, the 88W836X family:
Though I just recently wrote about Atheros and its worthy opponents, it is always useful to examine the details of the game from an inside perspective. Sometimes the smallest details are the most revealing — a flaw in execution, or an unstoppable competitive weapon.&nb
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