Well, to be fair, that's not really what happened. HP spun off Agilent to focus on end-user general IT products. Agilent was a giant hairball of a company. PE firms stripped the chipset and component divisions out of the hairball, called them "Avago", refined the business down to chipsets and away from general components, and executed a roll-up strategy on the chipset space.
What would make sense would be for Avago to do a VW/Audi or Cingular/ATT thing and assume Broadcom's branding.
I'm not sure that the "Agilent" branding does a whole lot more for a chipset business than "Avago" does.
Also: I'm guessing if you're an Avago customer, you know it. :)
Similarly: Leidos isn't really SAIC, but rather the spun-off "national security" IT products part of SAIC.
It would be interesting to try and make a graph of the product lines / companies in this space. I.e. HP started off doing test equipment, and back in the 90s spun that division and everything not related to computers/storage/printers to Agilent. Agilent has since spun off:
* Phillips Medical Systems: health care
* Avago: Semiconductors
* Verigy: Semiconductor test
* Keysight: Test equipment
+ Probably more I don't know about due to acquisitions.
The graph would be even more complex if you trace all the part acquisitions and divestitures in and out of Avago (LSI, PLX, Infineon, Axxia, SSD tech to Seagate, Emulex).
Then again, Broadcom liked to buy things, for example ServerWorks, Renesas, Netlogic (which in turn had acquired RMI, etc).
What would make sense would be for Avago to do a VW/Audi or Cingular/ATT thing and assume Broadcom's branding.
I'm not sure that the "Agilent" branding does a whole lot more for a chipset business than "Avago" does.
Also: I'm guessing if you're an Avago customer, you know it. :)
Similarly: Leidos isn't really SAIC, but rather the spun-off "national security" IT products part of SAIC.