By the way, Avago is owned by the same two companies (along with others) that bought the majority interest in NXP which is also owned by Philips. 

Freescale Semiconductor, Inc. is a global leader in the design and manufacture of embedded semiconductors for the automotive, consumer, industrial, networking and wireless markets. The privately-held company is based in Austin, Texas, and has design, research and development, manufacturing or sales operations in more than 30 countries.  Freescale is one of the world's largest semiconductor companies with 2006 sales of $6.4 billion (USD). 

Freescale may be one of the largest companies that people touch every day, but have never heard of. It has shipped more than 17 billion semiconductors, which can be found in everyday name brands: 

   Motorola cell phones                  Sony electronics                            Whirlpool appliances Logitech keyboards and mice           Lifefitness cardiovascular and strength training equipment                            Cisco routers                            Bose Acoustic Wave radios                            Trane heating and cooling equipment                            Mercedes, BMW, Ford, Hyundai and General Motors vehicles 

 Avago Technologies Ltd.Avago was formed on December 1, 2005 by Silver Lake and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts through the acquisition and carve out of the Semiconductor Products Group from Agilent Technologies, Inc. (formerly a division of Hewlett-Packard Company) for $2.66 billion, one of the largest private equity buyouts of a semiconductor company

HQ: San Jose, CA and Singapore
2006 Revenue: $1.6 billion
Employees: 6,220
Chairman: Dick Chang
President & CEO: Hock E. Tan
Year of Investment (Privately held): 2005
Business: The world's third largest privately held independent semiconductor company.
Website: www.avagotech.com