Apple Supplier Broadcom Negotiating Deal for VMware | iPhone in Canada Blog
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Apple supplier Broadcom is currently in talks to take over cloud-computing company and virtualization pioneer VMware — reports Bloomberg. Broadcom, primarily a chipmaker, manufactures hardware solutions for wireless communications and more in both consumer and enterprise products. VMware is known for inventing virtualization software, which lets users divide the resources and workload of one computer into smaller units, each running in its own independent instance on the same system. Today, VMware primarily makes virtual remote system access software for the enterprise and consumer sectors, as well as other cloud-computing solutions. If the two companies do reach an agreement, the acquisition will be one of Broadcom’s largest yet — although not as big as the unsuccessful $105 billion bid Tan made for fellow chipmaker Qualcomm back in 2017.
