Charlie Kawwas
President of Broadcom's Semiconductor Solutions Group
Semiconductor executive who leads Broadcom's chip divisions, including the custom AI accelerators co-designed with large AI customers such as the OpenAI partnership announced in October 2025. Previously Broadcom's chief operating officer; joined through the LSI acquisition after senior roles at LSI and Nortel. Three-time Concordia University graduate.
Key arguments & positions
- Argues the AI buildout runs on custom silicon: Broadcom's XPU platform co-designs accelerators with each large AI customer rather than selling one general-purpose chip.
- Backs open Ethernet standards for AI clusters to keep inference costs down and solve power bottlenecks, describing Broadcom as deeply co-designing the hardware its partners' models scale on.
Accomplishments
- President of Broadcom's Semiconductor Solutions Group, responsible for its semiconductor divisions and the Brocade storage networking business, and Broadcom's chief operating officer since December 2020.
- Leads the custom-chip business behind the OpenAI partnership announced in October 2025 to co-develop a 10-gigawatt-scale accelerator cluster.
- Joined Broadcom through the LSI acquisition; earlier held senior sales and marketing roles at LSI and engineering positions at Nortel.
- Three-time Concordia University graduate (B.Eng. 1993, M.S., and Ph.D. in electrical and computer engineering); Concordia's 2020 Alumnus of the Year.
Papers & key writings
Speaks in interviews and conference conversations, such as a 2026 RAISE Summit discussion on agentic AI infrastructure, rather than in published writing.
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