They derive from HP and Agilent Technologies, along with LSI. Pieced together originally by KKR & Silver Lake. Realistically it's a half century old entity. They then moved the corporation official seat to Singapore for various strategic reasons.
But lets consider 2013. Avago had a revenue of $2.5bn, respectable, but that's not much when compared with Qualcomm's $24.9bn, less than Broadcom's $8.3bn, NXP's $4.8bn, and Freescale's $4.1bn.
In fact it seems that at least when it came to revenues, Avago was the smallest company on that list.
Unsure who you think should or would know Avago, but I am fairly certain they are far from a household name like HP is.
People don't usually research who makes the chips in their doohickeys and gizmos.
Not really a retort. Just Qualcomm is at least known perhaps more than all the other companies combined. As little as that's worth.