Amax vs Broadcom

AMAX is a privately held open-architecture technology manufacturer based in Fremont, California in the United States. It specializes in innovative and scalable cluster, storage and networking products developed for data center, high performance computing, cloud and big data applications for corporate, scientific, military and government use. AMAX's business model specializes in application-driven designs of server to rack level solutions geared towards customer specifications rather than low mix mass production. As an official Solution Provider of Facebook-driven Open Compute Project solutions, AMAX architects solutions based on both traditional and modular Open Compute platforms. AMAX recently announced an Open Switch product based on Broadcom's Fastpath technology geared towards software-defined networking.

Broadcom Corporation is an American fabless semiconductor company in the wireless and broadband communication business. The company is headquartered in Irvine, California. Broadcom was founded by a professor-student pair Henry Samueli and Henry T. Nicholas III from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1991. In 1995, the company moved from its Westwood, Los Angeles, office to Irvine, California. In 1998, Broadcom became a public company on the NASDAQ exchange and now employs approximately 11,750 people worldwide in more than 15 countries.