I have one way to describe the Broadcom session at NFD22, that term is NERDGASM! The presenters had to be some of the guys who are designing these chips, the depth of knowledge they had was incredible.

Broadcom are the engineers that make the merchant silicon chips that manufacturers like Cisco, Juniper, Arista, etc all use in their hardware. As you can see from the slide above, Broadcom is the heart of the unit as it is the silicon inside the switch/router.