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U.S. chipmaker Broadcom is set to acquire conditional EU antitrust approval for its $61 billion proposed acquisition of cloud computing agency VMware, folks accustomed to the matter mentioned.
The European Commission’s clearance is tied to Broadcom’s interoperability treatments to rivals to tackle competitors considerations, the folks mentioned.
The EU antitrust watchdog, which is scheduled to resolve on the deal by July 17, and Broadcom declined to remark.
One of the treatments focuses on Fibre Channel Host-Bus Adapters (FC HBAs) and is focused at rival Marvell Technology, one of many folks mentioned. Marvell Technology didn’t reply to a request for remark.
FC HBAs are storage adapters that join servers to storage situated exterior the server on a storage-area community utilizing the fiber channel protocol, usually by way of a change. Broadcom is a number one provider of FC HBAs.
Broadcom provides chips utilized in information centres for networking and specialised chips that pace up AI work.
