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Charlie Kawwas

President of Semiconductor Solutions, Broadcom

Search every verified Charlie Kawwas interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In 2025 and early 2026, Charlie Kawwas, President of Broadcom's Semiconductor Solutions Group, has been a prominent voice on the infrastructure demands of artificial intelligence. He has described AI infrastructure as "civilization's next-generation operating system" and a "critical utility" for the global population. In October 2025, Kawwas joined OpenAI executives Sam Altman and Greg Brockman, along with Broadcom CEO Hock Tan, to announce a partnership to design a custom AI chip and system, with Kawwas stating that Broadcom is "defining civilization's next-generation operating system." He has repeatedly identified energy consumption as the primary challenge to democratizing AI, noting that compute demand is increasing by 10x annually and that power access is the main hurdle for deploying large AI clusters. Kawwas has highlighted Broadcom's engineering focus, stating that over 13,000 of his 15,000 employees are engineers, and has showcased innovations such as the Tomahawk 5 networking chip and silicon photonics co-packaged optics, which he said reduces power consumption by 70%. Kawwas has also shared his personal background and career philosophy in multiple public appearances. He has spoken about arriving in Montreal from Bethlehem with no high school diploma and little English, and credited Concordia University for giving him an opportunity)Skip. In June 2025, he received an honorary doctorate from Concordia, where he told graduates that his formula for success is "WEL": work hard, embrace challenges, and live adaptability. He has advised engineers to choose their own mentors, citing Hock Tan as his own, and urged young professionals to embrace AI or risk being left behind. Kawwas has also discussed his daily rituals of exercising, calling his mother on video, and praying before bed.

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