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Broadcom Explores Buying Qualcomm (bloomberg.com)
phalse phace writes: Bloomberg news is reporting that Broadcom may be planning to make an offer to buy Qualcomm. From the report: "Broadcom Ltd. is considering a bid of more than $100 billion for Qualcomm Inc., according to people familiar with the matter, in what would be the biggest-ever takeover of a chipmaker. Broadcom is speaking to advisers about the potential deal, said the people, who asked not to be identified because talks are private. The offer of about $70 a share would include cash and stock and is likely to be made in the coming days, the people said." If the deal goes through, Broadcom would become "the world's third largest chipmaker behind Intel Corp. and Samsung Electronics Co. and give it a huge swath of the supply chain of vital phone components such as Wi-Fi and cellular modem chips. The two companies are already among the top ten providers of chips ranked by revenue in an industry that's consolidating rapidly."
Big announcement by their CEO with Trump yesterday.
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Broadcom sucks at releasing firmware and hardware programming specs for their wireless gear.
Broadcom wants to buy Qualcomm
Qualcomm bought Atheros, who was traditionally much much better at releasing firmware and programming specs.
This is going to suck.
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Is that before or after it’s announced that you’re the fattest man in your city?
It would make me very happy if the merged company rebranded to become Comcomm.
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Broadcom makes everything related to storage, from RAID controllers to drive chipsets. A purchase of Qualcomm does make good financial sense for Broadcom, because they could make cheap-as-chips single chip (SoC) phones. They do have extensive experience with ARM in the storage field. Perhaps they see a potential benefit to a Microsoft-Broadcom/Qualcomm partnership (QualSoft? MicroCom?), similar to Microsoft-Intel partnership that significantly benefited both players in the 90s (WinTel).
Funny part is that Broadcom (well, the LSI part of Broadcom) made proprietary RAID controllers for Intel. By proprietary, I mean won't work on anything but an Intel board. But the guts are the standard SAS2008 / SAS2208 / SAS3008 on a stock LSI board.
My captcha is "shorted". I wonder if slashdot is hinting I need to short Intel's stock ;)
Which makes it obvious that moving their mailing address was done just to make it easier for US regulators to approve this acquisition.
Proof that fat people make other people stupid.
When there is only one semiconductor manufacturer left what will it be called?
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Incomprehensible swallowing of giant Qualcomm by Giant Broadcomm which was itself swallowed by giant Avago technologies to form giant Broadcomm Limited which has 13 billion in revenue while Qualcomm has 23 billion in revenue (how is that possible?) which will form new company BROADQUAL which will be investigated by the Department of Justice under the Sherman Anti-Trust act for anti-competitive practices, which Qualcomm is already being investigated for. And I ended the run-on senctence with a preposition. We are running forward into the cattle.
Unfortunately, the world does not deserve the chimera that is born from that.
A fat man thinks other people are stupid
can't publish his own poetry before Jan 1 2018
His name is Chris
A fat man weighed 360 pounds
Weighs 375 on low-carb diet
His name is Chris
Let's not forget the failed literary critic. Stupid does as stupid do.
P.S., Asshole, I'm not Chris.
... so writes the failed literary critic.
A fat man's karma is at -1
stays at -1 after many posts
His name is Chris
... so writes the failed literary critic. Again!
Let's not forget the failed literary critic. Stupid does as stupid do.
P.S., Asshole, I'm not Chris.
Sure, Chris. Your crammar totally doesn't give you away.
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You sound bitter, sweet tits.
A fat man can't publish his own poetry before Jan 1 2018
calls other people failed
His name is Chris
Shut up, Lilly!
Didn't Broadcom just get finished acquiring Brocade? Or is that deal still in limbo?
A fat man always admits defeat
in the same stupid way
His name is Chris
Every AC is named Chris and Lilly. And we all float!
Was a consultant in the 90s (Globalstar), then an employee in the '00s. Left in '08. Best company I ever consulted/worked for, by far. Few years back went sailing with a friend, who's friend's boyfriend left Texas Instruments for Qcom, relocating in the process. He didn't want to talk about his work, but said the move was his worst career move he'd ever made. Few months later, 3 couples on a sailboat. Me, my friend, owner of the sailboat and her BF, the ex-TI guy, and a guy I'd worked with in the 90s and some woman sailboat owner was trying to setup with Qcom 90s guy. Ken was his name.
I started talking to Ken about Qcom, he didn't want to talk about it. He was perfectly willing to talk about Qcom 20 years ago, but not life there now. Keep in mind this guy had been there for some 30 years, he was worth a few million, and was still working. He pretty much said that when Paul took over the culture changed overnight. The annual Christmas party, that used to be several shades past awesome? Cancelled. The summer picnics I took my 1 digit old grandkids to? cancelled. The dinners that came in at 7 PM when you were waiting for a chip to clear customs? Cancelled.
I ended up selling all my stock and cashing in my options around 7-8 years ago cuz I needed the money, but damn, that stock hasn't gone anywhere since then. Think I sold at 50 something, stock is now 62 something.
Right-o.. literally-absolutely-totally-like nobody cares about you other than a few people who feel pity for you and a handful who detest you enough to spam and downvote your every murmur and track your endless piss stream of sockpuppets
Nobody in any of those groups is going to come here and make a bunca AC posts defending you. At best they may tell people to knock it off because it shits up the post feed or maybe give you constructive advice about how to unfuck yourself
Which by the way you have ignored every single fucking time. And you fucking know if because you attempted to disguise your anonymous cashews account with a few initial posts like "Woah chris calm down and stop being so annoying" as no doubt your parents, special ed teachers, scoutmasters, coaches, bosses, and whatever else have been doing to you for your entire fucking life. You're at least a little aware of what a cockbag you are and yet you won't stop.
Imagine life as a normal fucking human jesus christ you little asshole.
It's not to "piss off your trolls and make money off them" or some garbage like that.. I've seen trolls who are dedicated agitators or spammers.
It's like you hate yourself or something, you desperately want acceptance on this dying irrelevant website for god knows why. Go use your welfare healthcare to go to a fucking shrink and unfuck your head you self loathing pile of shit.
A fat man imagines a woman stalking him
can't talk to women in real life
His name is Chris
It must be hell for the people who have to endure your humor at family gatherings and work parties. It's a blessing to humanity itself that those are the deepest social bonds in your life.
Sigh.
We have chips, in use, that were of Motorola design when they were in cahoots with IBM and Apple. Then Freescale. Then NXP. Now Qualcomm. They just now updated their default install location from C:\Freescale to C:\NXP.
Maybe moving to Renesas won't be too terrible... then again they were NEC.
A fat man claims he floats
so do his turds
His name is Chris
Just give it a rest, asshole. We don't care about your fake Internet rage.
A fat man sees rage
autism prevents seeing reality
His name is Chris
Failed literary critics are the most difficult people to put up with over the holidays. Especially when they're waiting for the muse to fart lightning and shit thunder.
Which makes it obvious that moving their mailing address was done just to make it easier for US regulators to approve this acquisition.
And don't forget the pending litigation with Apple. Might play better for them as an "American" company.
Nope, no sig
If you want to talk to Chris, why don't you reply to his comment? You're replying to an AC who may be Chris, Lilly or you. A lot of these replies are just virtual masturbations.
A fat man talks about masturbation
sticks to what he knows
His name is Chris
A failed literary critic writes shit on the walls with his fingers.
Errm, Qualcomm is double the size of Broadcom (both in terms of revenue and number of employees). How the heck is a $13 billion revenue company (Broadcom) with only $4 billion in cash reserves going to buy a company for $100 billion?
Except it’s Qualcomm that filed suit against not Broadcom.
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Hahaha creimer you fat pig.
I worked at both
I've invested in both companies
A confession - I have a builtin bias. I know Hock Tan, Broadcom's boss, for decades (before he went into Broadcom)
Overall impression:
Dishonesty runs in the veins of Qualcomm while paranoia runs in the veins of Broadcom
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These are the money guys behind Avago / Broadcom, and Hock Tan is their point man to set up the world's 3rd largest semiconductor company
Except it’s Qualcomm that filed suit against not Broadcom.
You know this story is about Broadcom buying Qualcomm, so they'll be the same company, right?
Nope, no sig
...that's not funny, and doesn't make any sense. Tha'ts our Reimer!
A failed poet makes everyone queasy and can't publish his own feces before Jan 1 2018.
This failed literary critic weighs half what you do... And if I'm failed, why do I bother you so much, Chris?
Nice try chris. We nest the comments so deeply so that we can shove shit in your face without bothering people in the main on topic thread cause we're decent fucking people with internet manners.
Except itâ(TM)s Qualcomm that filed suit against not Broadcom.
You know this story is about Broadcom buying Qualcomm, so they'll be the same company, right?
You know how stupid you look with all that egg on you face?