# Agere Systems Semiconductor company spun off from [[wiki/Lucent Technologies|Lucent Technologies]] in 2002, carrying [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]]' microelectronics division. Acquired by [[wiki/LSI Corporation|LSI Corporation]] in 2007, which was acquired by [[wiki/Avago Technologies|Avago Technologies]] in 2013, which then acquired and took the name of [[wiki/Broadcom|Broadcom]]. This succession chain connects the birthplace of the [[wiki/Transistor|transistor]] to a $700B+ semiconductor company, as traced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].