Avago Technologies

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Type	Public
Industry	Semiconductors
Founded	1960s
Headquarters	San Jose, California, USA and Singapore
Key people	Hock E. Tan, CEO
Products	analog
Revenue	US $2.1 billion (2010)
Employees	3500
Website	www.AvagoTech.com

Avago Technologies (NASDAQ: AVGO) is a Singaporean company with joint headquarters in San Jose, California (USA) and Singapore. It began as the semiconductor products division of HP and later Agilent Technologies, before being spun off into a distinct legal entity. It holds more than 5,000 patents.

Products[link]

Avago Technologies provides a range of analog, mixed-signal and optoelectronic components and subsystems to more than 40,000 customers. Avago sells over 6,500 products to OEM customers in the Wireless and Wired Communications, Industrial and Automotive Electronics and Consumer and Computing target markets.

Avago's product families include:

• ASICs
• Fiber Optics
• LEDs & LED Displays
• Motion Control Encoder Products
• Navigation Interface Devices
• Optical Sensors - Ambient Light Sensors & Proximity Sensors
• Optocouplers - Hermetic & Plastic
• RF & Microwave - Including Thin Film Bulk Acoustic Resonator (FBAR) filters, GPS filter-LNA module, and Power Amplifiers for mobile phones.

Spin-Off[link]

In late 2005 the semiconductor division of Agilent was acquired by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Silver Lake Partners, and became an independent company. Today it is one of the leading III-V semiconductor companies in the world, with approximately 3,200 employees and net revenue of $1.5 billion in fiscal 2009.

In 2006, PMC-Sierra purchased Avago Technologies storage semiconductor division.

In 2008, Avago Technologies filed a $400M IPO for the NASDAQ with the proposed ticker symbol AVGO.^[1]

In 2009, Avago Technologies filed an amended registration statement with the SEC for an initial public offering of its common stock. The Company is offering 36,000,000 shares and expects the offering price to be between $13–$15 per share. The Company plans to list on the NASDAQ under the symbol "AVGO".^[2]

On Aug 5, 2009, Avago announced the initial public offering of 43,200,000 ordinary shares at a price to the public of $15.00 per share. ".^[3]

Following the successful IPO, the company began trading under the symbol AVGO as a public corporation.

On February 28, 2011, Avago announced the pricing of a secondary offering of 25,000,000 ordinary shares at a price to the public of $32.50 per share, resulting in private equity firms holding under 50% of the Company's shares. ".^[4]

On September 28, 2011, Avago announced the pricing of a secondary offering of 15,000,000 ordinary shares at a price to the public of $32.85 per share, resulting in private equity firms holding under 12% of the Company's shares. ".^[5]

See also[link]

• Agilent
• Verigy
• HP

References[link]

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