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From an early home-made radio, to a multi-billion dollar industry, a UC engineering education provides the link to a technological invention that likely enables the device you’re reading this from
Henry Samueli, BS ’75, MS ’76, PhD ’80
Co-Founder and Chairman, Broadcom Inc.
Benefactor, of a UC School of Engineering
The son of Jewish immigrant parents, Samueli grew up in Los Angeles and spent much of his free time as a child helping out in his parents’ modest liquor store. An early success building a home radio kit sparked an interest in electronics that led Samueli to a UC, where he earned three degrees, all in electrical engineering.
After a short stint in the aerospace industry, Samueli returned to his UC as a professor, allowing him to pursue his passion for research in broadband communications circuits and digital signal processing. Breakthroughs in this research eventually led Samueli and one of his Ph.D. Students to found Broadcom Corporation in 1991. The company grew rapidly and today, following a merger with Avago Technologies in 2016 and subsequent renaming to Broadcom Inc., generates $20 billion in annual revenue, with 15,000 employees worldwide. Broadcom semiconductor chip technology is ubiquitous in today’s connected world.
“When my parents arrived in the U.S. from Poland, they had very little,” Samueli says. “I was so fortunate to have had the opportunity to receive the engineering education I did through the UC system, and to be able to share the advances we made there with the rest of the world. One of my great passions now is to try to help as many young people as possible have that same opportunity.”