Broadcom vs T-Systems

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.

T-Systems is a German global IT services and consulting company headquartered in Frankfurt. Founded in October 2000, it is a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom. The company operates in more than 20 countries and employs approximately 50,000 people worldwide, among them around 27,000 in Germany and 27,000 outside. Since December 2007 Reinhard Clemens is the CEO. Before that, he was president of EDS Germany since 2003.