# Hewlett-Packard American multinational technology company co-founded in 1939 by Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard. HP's semiconductor division eventually became [[wiki/Avago Technologies|Avago Technologies]], which acquired and took the name of Broadcom, connecting HP's lineage to the [[wiki/Bell Labs|Bell Labs]] semiconductor genealogy through the [[wiki/Agere Systems|Agere Systems]] chain. Referenced in [[articles/Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power|Bell Labs and the Distributed Architecture of American Power]]. ## Chronological Proximity HP was founded in 1939 before the wartime laboratory mobilization and became an early tenant in the Stanford research-park ecosystem during the Cold War electronics expansion. ## Relational Proximity Its founders were Stanford engineers encouraged by [[wiki/Fred Terman|Fred Terman]]; its growth joined university networks, the [[wiki/Stanford Research Park|research park]], and the wider Silicon Valley supplier base. ## Chronology and Collection Routes [[research/Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software - Research|Chronology of Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] · [[wiki/Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software|Signals, Silos, and Sovereign Software]] · [[collections/The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace|The Civilian Intelligence Marketplace]] · [[collections/Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment|Terrorism, Counterterrorism, and the Intelligence Environment]]