Hock Tan陈福阳
Broadcom
President & CEO
United StatesHock Tan, male, U.S. national, born in 1951, a native of Penang, Malaysia, holds master's degrees in mechanical engineering and business administration. He is the president and CEO of Broadcom.
- 1971–1975Studied mechanical engineering at MIT, earning bachelor's and master's degrees in succession (later earned a master's degree in business administration from Harvard Business School)
- 1979–1983Held positions successively at General Motors and PepsiCo in the United States, working in financial management
- 1983–1988Managing Director of Hume Industries in Malaysia
- 1988–1992Co-founded the venture capital firm Pacven in Singapore, serving as Managing Director
- 1992–1994Vice President of Finance at Commodore International in the United States
- 1995–2005Served successively as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer and as Chief Operating Officer of Integrated Circuit Systems (ICS) in the United States; President and CEO from 1999
- 2006–presentPresident and CEO of Avago Technologies (which retained the Broadcom name after merging with Broadcom in 2016)(During this period: 2005–2008, concurrently served as Chairman of IDT in the United States)
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Custom AI ASIC and networking silicon for hyperscalers.
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Apollo, Blackstone back Anthropic's $35 billion capacity expansion in new Broadcom tie-up
Apollo and Blackstone are financing a $35 billion expansion of AI computing capacity for Anthropic using Broadcom's custom chips and networking solutions as part of a tie-up between the asset managers and the chipmaker.
Microsoft AI chief says company was “set free” from OpenAI to pursue superintelligence
Mustafa Suleyman, CEO of Microsoft AI, disclosed in an exclusive interview with VentureBeat that a contractual change with OpenAI about six months ago granted his division formal authority to pursue 'superintelligence' using Microsoft's own researchers, data pipelines, and custom silicon. This signals a strategic inflection point: Microsoft is not abandoning OpenAI but building alongside it, with its first in-house model family released the same day.