Over the past year, many technology giants have announced very expensive new investment and acquisition plans. In this direction, Dell is expected to buy EMC for $67 billion, and Microsoft is expected to buy Activision Blizzard for 68.7 billion dollars.
Now, a new one is added to the list of the most expensive deals in history. There was a rumor recently that the famous chip maker Broadcom would buy the software company Vmware for $ 40 billion. Indeed, it was confirmed today. However, the agreed amount is much higher than expected.
Broadcom buys VMware software company for $61 billion
When Broadcom is mentioned, the chips produced by Apple and Google come to mind first. Of course, the company is not only capable of producing processors in the usual sense, but also specific production for the product. For example, Wi-Fi and Bluetooth chips in many technological devices have signatures on them.
VMware purchase is very important for Broadcom. Because the company’s software development activities are largely dependent on this agreement. The main service of this company, which was under the umbrella of Dell until last year, is virtual machines developed with cloud system and virtualization technology.
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Although it is not known by consumers as a name, it has been doing great things for the last 10 years. In fact, if you are currently using a virtual machine, it is likely to be supported by Vmware or its competitor Citrix.
Broadcom has aggressive growth and investment plans. So much so that in the past 3 years, it bought CA Technologies for $18.9 billion and a division of Symantec for $10.7 billion. Of course, about a year ago, it decided to divest its acquisition of Symantec and sold it to Accenture for an undisclosed sum.
In the statement made by the CEO of VMware, Raghu Raghuram, it was said:
Combining all of our assets and talented team under the VMware brand with Broadcom’s existing enterprise software portfolio will create a notable enterprise software player.
But as we noted, this isn’t Broadcom’s first major acquisition attempt. In fact, if the former US President Donald Trump had not broken the agreement due to national security concerns, he would have bought Qualcomm, one of its biggest rivals, for 100 billion dollars. Therefore, we may see similar news in the coming period.
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