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EU to green light Broadcom's VMware deal on Wednesday, source says

Published 07/11/2023, 02:41 PM
Updated 07/11/2023, 03:47 PM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: A smartphone with a displayed Broadcom logo is placed on a computer motherboard in this illustration taken March 6, 2023. REUTERS/Dado Ruvic/Illustration/File Photo

By Foo Yun Chee

BRUSSELS (Reuters) -U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) is set to win conditional EU antitrust approval for its $61 billion proposed acquisition of cloud computing firm VMware (NYSE:VMW) on Wednesday, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

Last month, Reuters reported exclusively that Broadcom had succeeded in addressing the European Commission's concerns regarding its Fibre Channel Host-Bus Adapters (FC HBAs) by offering an interoperability remedy to rival Marvell (NASDAQ:MRVL) Technology.

Broadcom is a leading supplier of FC HBAs, which are storage adapters that connect servers to storage located outside the server on a storage-area network using the fiber channel protocol.

The VMware deal is Broadcom's largest-ever acquisition as it looks to diversify into enterprise software.

The European Commission declined to comment.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the UK competition agency are also examining the deal.

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