Broadcom, as I understand, is as secretive as they are as a defense against patent trolling. When you have NPE's gobbling up garbage patents to sue everyone and

Broadcom, as I understand, is as secretive as they are as a defense against patent trolling. When you have NPE's gobbling up garbage patents to sue everyone and their brother with, locking up the IP tightly is one adaptation to defend against that sort of thing. Still pisses me off to the ends of the earth.