At an event today in Manhattan and streamed worldwide, the IEEE announced Henry Samueli, one of the two founders of Broadcom, will be the recipient of the organization's top award, the Medal of Honor for 2025. Aside from the recognition and prestige of joining the list of previous winners (including TSMC founder Morris Chang and GPS developer Bradford Parkinson), the award includes a newly expanded $2 million prize.
While a professor at UCLA at the end of the 1980s Samueli and then-PH.D student Henry Nicholas began work on the mixed-signal communications technology that would lead the two to form Broadcom in 1991. Before long, the company would spearhead the global growth of broadband that makes much of our modern internet, communications, and streaming services possible.
"IEEE Medal of Honor Laureate Henry Samueli’s vision and communications technology innovations spurred the development of products used by nearly every person around the world,” said 2025 IEEE President and CEO Kathleen Kramer via the IEEE's press release. “From the billions of consumer smartphones, set-top boxes and tablets, to laptops and IoT devices, Samueli created new and novel ways to power connections and unite humanity.”
The IEEE, or Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, is the world's largest technical professional organization, with the stated goal of "advancing technology for the benefit of humanity."
