# Hewlett-Packard American multinational technology company co-founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP's semiconductor division eventually became [[wiki/Avago Technologies|Avago Technologies]], which acquired and took the name of Broadcom, connecting HP's lineage to the [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] semiconductor genealogy through the [[wiki/Agere Systems|Agere Systems]] chain. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]].