Broadcom vs GNU

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Broadcom
Based on 2276 reviews.
GNU
Based on 6 reviews.
Overview
Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. In 1995, the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles, office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.
GNU i The combination of GNU software and the Linux kernel is commonly known as Linux. Development of the GNU operating system was initiated by Richard Stallman at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Artificial Intelligence Laboratory as a project called the GNU Project which was publicly announced on September 27, 1983, on the net.unix-wizards and net.usoft newsgroups by Richard Stallman.
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