Broadcom Corporation is a fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California, USA. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) at Los Angeles, California in 1991. In 1995, the company moved from its Westwood, California, office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange (ticker symbol: BRCM) and now employs approximately 10,000 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.
Broadcom is among Gartner's Top 10 Semiconductor Vendors by revenue. In 2011, Broadcom's total revenue was $7.39 billion. In 2011, Broadcom was No. 343 on the Fortune 500, climbing 117 places from its 2010 ranking of No. 460. Broadcom first landed on the Fortune 500 in 2009. The Broadcom logo is inspired from the Mathematical Sinc function .
Broadcom's product line spans computer and telecommunication networking: the company has products for enterprise/metropolitan high-speed networks, as well as products for SOHO (small-office, home-office) networks. Products include transceiver and processor ICs for Ethernet and wireless LANs, cable modems, digital subscriber line (DSL), servers, home networking devices (router, switches, port-concentrators) and cellular phones (GSM/GPRS/EDGE/W-CDMA). It is also known for a series of high-speed encryption co-processors, offloading this processor-intensive work to a dedicated chip, thus greatly speeding up tasks that utilize encryption. This has many practical benefits for e-commerce, and PGP or GPG secure communications.
O' dreamy whisperer, o' serene wind
Traverse through me and bring close to my kin
Into the tree so the mountain may sing
Ashes are flowers, my fountain to spring
Gather old stones as my soul is set free
Lay them in nests of all infinity
Steep hills through crypts and the halls I can see
Fairies in wind hear me, I summon thee
Fairies in wind, hear me calling
Let the flood begin, as my chanting
Unites mud moss and star
The grim ones dance in the blood
Of the ancient lore that's lost
Stride upon bright air like an angel
Virgin without fear, nature compels
Me to cut the thread, vis of yonder
Allures me with ancientry lustrum
Fairies, heave me...
As I chant the circling rime...
Conjure the fires from deepest waters
Passionately dance into forest blessed
Lust for the misty mazes and you'll find
Dusk is dawn as your realm is the divine
Urios guides my way as I fly
Growing zygote through Tirana of life
During Alagas a Ruach to be
Shaped as a raven in prodigy
I wend in wind and I will be a
Fairy in wind, gleeful creature
Find a thrawn queen in the terre verte
Unite mud moss and star
And the seared ones dance in the blood
Of the ancient lore once lost
The spiral unwinds, lurid it shines
The Ancient of days reveals the
Sparkling gift of Mantiens
Fairies calling
Chanting aphrodisiac
Untied, a thrawn king
Flies through the zodiac
Immortalise through affectation
Drink your blood poured in the grail
Journey through the deepest spirals
Into nature's inner veil
Use your powers to experience
Life and death, your soul's ordeal
Seek the faries and the ravens
Every night I feel it behind me
Every night I sense its presence
Every night it's haunting me
As ominious as my dyed counscience
Every night it turns every dream
Into a frowsty nightmare
Every night I want to turn
And finally face this shadow
In a frowsty chill
A mist of fear
The one I do not wish to know
Resides my every dream
The Shadow, my unseen
Beholding captor
Every night I feel it behind me
Every night I want to face its nature
But never this do I dare
For saw I it, surely die would I
Last night, in my dream I turned
To face the faceless peril
How morbid my dreads then seemed
As I saw my own distorted face
In a moisty chill
A dreadlike mist
The one I restist to know
Enshrouds my every dream
The Shadow, my hidden
Spring... Writhe
Autumn... Rise
Twilight... Begin
Decay... Thus bring
Disharmony their son
The blackening of the sun
Betrayal begun
Disoriented creed, all past begone
Darkness can't hide them
From our moonlight gone black
It's born again
The beginning of the end
Our forces must blend
Our lives to expend
Disharmony has won
The blackening of our sun
Cleaning operation has begun
Disoriented creed is soon gone
Cold winds... Rise
Past life... Writhe
Parasites... Die
Light is dim
In fact, it is naught
Spring went into summer,
Yet summer stepped aside
As autumn took its place
Then autumn died
And winter came to stay
Beyond the waste remains of
Autumns decayed suit
Neither heat nor frost
Maketh any difference
Silent solitude
Winter's reign
That which once was
And perhaps once more to be
Sleeps...
In the land where dreams are reality
And reality is no more to be
If thou from 'ere canst see
- Solitaire reality -
Winter thy cryb, and thus,
Thine crypt...
...And by spring's soft embrace you will awake
To feel a bleeding soul; Agony of the mind
The bliss of torment echoes through my brain
Such waste; A loss of will
Echoes through lost time
I curse life, for which I hunger
I curse life, from which I am bereaved
I curse the chill of life
And welcome the warmth of death
Cancel this state, enter dimension shapeless
Feeling, bleeding
Agony of the mind
The bliss of torment
Echoes through my brain
Such waste, loss of will
Echoes through lost time
Death shall free my soul
Nevermore this mental void, out of this void
Into forthcoming abyss of time
So you ratify me as insane
But death is certain anyway
And life was not meant for me
My energy will never cease to be
A new dimension I shall see
It's wonderful; Darkness is my bride
This shrine overwhelms me
As I become one with my own fate
Through the inverted land I journey
Where the seas of joy fall
From the eclipse of blackness
Some soothing darkness crawls up my spine
This truth overwhelms me
The heart of my soul unveiled
Such perfection
Mortals seldom do encounter
The end, some sort of beginning
...My journey is at an end...
The key to happiness
The hope of beyond
Is but a delusion
...I go...
...Far away to seek
...My coming, the truth
...Which lies far beyond my dreams
...It is the ever and ever for me
It is an illusion, lest the power is
Twisted it seems, as twilight ascends
Welcome then its dim embrace
To begin To cease To stray
To wander To live To be
Eradicated
As I lie here, knowing I will
(never) Get away from here
(alive) Through death
No one can do anything but to wait
As I slowly wither from within
Soon I won't be able to move
- Will I see the land
Soon I won't be able to speak
- Where my ancestors sleep
Soon I won't even be able to think clearly
- Will I ever journey home
Dying faster, thinking of all things
unaccomplished
Ideas only I could ever carry through
All my dreams discarded before my time was
due
I will float in to the ever
If there is an ever
I will only know for sure
When it's too late for me to tell you
So I'll just give you my best regards
A vision through a moonstill water
The story of a long lost child
Inside this gruesome blackness
This massive hole of emptiness
From the ever he could touch the sky
Yet as he tried to climb
The walls crumbled to dust
And inside, the boy appeared
I watched him grow, I saw his eyes
As he turned away in cries
How it hurts
And the tears taste like blood
From the ever he could touch the sky
Yet as he tried to climb the walls
They crumbled into dust
I ran away from life
Through those walls that imprisoned me
Within myself, inside my pain and misery
As the preludium silenced
I wiped away my crystallized tears
...The soughing of the wind
The thunder of the avalanches
The roar of the waterfalls
The howling of the wolves...
Come winter, cold and frosty
Hold me firmly in your vice
With majestic force you hold
This world in your white hand
Come winter, white preserver
Cover my body in white lace
O' Skadi
Silvery queen of winter
Let the summer suffer
Its atonement in white
Your radiant beauty
Envelopes this waste land
Making it shine
In the grace of your veil
Come winter, pure and shining
I plead thee for eternal existence
You have the might to preserve
Life in its slumber
Come winter, white preserver
Please heed this my last wish
On earth
O' Skadi
Silvery queen of winter
Let the summer suffer
Its atonement in white
Your radiant beauty
Envelopes this waste land
Making it shine
In the grace of your veil
O' Skadi
Jotunbride of the gods
Northern huntress
Native of Thrym-heim
White huntress;
Mother of Freya
Enshroud me;
Beautiful daughter of frost
Where are you
- Hidden by years of mist
Please come back
- Forgotten I am dead
I died mentally but my body lives on
Half a life I lead as I linger on
Sorrow I breed and sorrow I feed
Half a death I suffer as I try to withdraw
My sickness is no disease
A mind in hell
Can such a thing be revealed
In silence I cry out
Born dead my plea for relief
They speak of sweetness
They speak of harmony
They speak of romance
They speak of felicity
Such words are alien to me
So let me remain in my domain
Leave me be
They swarm in sunshine
They gather in sweet light
The night is black, without a moon
The air is thick, and still
The vigilantes gather on
The lonely torchlit hill
Features distorted in the flickering light
The faces are twisted and grotesque
Silent and stern in the sweltering night
The mob moves like demons possessed
Quiet in conscience, calm in their right
Confident their ways are best
The righteous rise
With burning eyes
Of hatred and ill-will
Madmen fed on fear and lies
To beat and burn and kill
They say there are strangers, who threaten us
In our immigrants and infidels
They say there is strangeness, too dangerous
In our theatres and bookstore shelves
Those who know what's best for us
Must rise and save us from ourselves
Quick to judge, quick to anger
Slow to understand
Ignorance, prejudice and fear
Behold, the sky is falling down
As twilight descends
Shattered rays still filter through
As the veil of darkness unfolds
In rapture I see all grace is gone
Embraced, all light now sleeps
The fall has come
This time is my home
At this time of year
All my anguish is gone
...with the sun...
The wind wipes out all grace
rejoice as the storm comes down
Behold the man upon the hill
Lonely he's awaiting
Sorrow is his only friend
Only he knows why
As wind has wiped out all grace
Raptured I am as the storm is taking me
Home
The wind has carried me
...The soughing of the wind
The thunder of the avalanches
The roar of the waterfalls
The howling of the wolves...
Come winter, cold and frosty
Hold me firmly in your vice
With majestic force you hold
This world in your white hand
Come winter, white preserver
Cover my body in white lace
O' Skadi
Silvery queen of winter
Let the summer suffer
Its atonement in white
Your radiant beauty
Envelopes this waste land
Making it shine
In the grace of your veil
Come winter, pure and shining
I plead thee for eternal existence
You have the might to preserve
Life in its slumber
Come winter, white preserver
Please heed this my last wish
On earth
O' Skadi
Silvery queen of winter
Let the summer suffer
Its atonement in white
Your radiant beauty
Envelopes this waste land
Making it shine
In the grace of your veil
O' Skadi
Jotunbride of the gods
Northern huntress
Native of Thrym-heim
White huntress;
Mother of Freya
Enshroud me;
Beautiful daughter of frost
Where are you
- Hidden by years of mist
Please come back
As I lie here, knowing I will
(never) Get away from here
(alive) Through death
No one can do anything but to wait
As I slowly wither from within
Soon I won't be able to move
- Will I see the land
Soon I won't be able to speak
- Where my ancestors sleep
Soon I won't even be able to think clearly
- Will I ever journey home
Dying faster, thinking of all things
unaccomplished
Ideas only I could ever carry through
All my dreams discarded before my time was
I will float in to the ever
If there is an ever
I will only know for sure
When it's too late for me to tell you