Custom Compute Engine Biz Growing More Than Marvell Ever Hoped
… The first is the acquisition of the Avere custom chip design business for $650 million back in September 2020 . …
… The first is the acquisition of the Avere custom chip design business for $650 million back in September 2020 . …
… It’s being accomplished both through in-house innovation and acquisition. For example, Cadence bought startup ChipStack in November 2025, a month after closing on the purchase of Secure-IC for its embedded security IP. …
CLOUD Broadcom Makes Its Pitch To Run Kubernetes On VMware VCF Broadcom’s $69 billion acquisition of virtualization pioneer VMware in late 2023 sent ripples through the tech industry that unsurprisingly focused on the skyrocketing price increases of as much as 300 percent to more than 1,000 percent… …
… The company also was able to protect the IP it built up over the previous years, including its 60-plus patents, and its building strong partnerships with top players in the quantum space. …
… SoftBank has aspirations as a supplier of GenAI chippery, as evidenced noted by its acquisition of independent Arm server CPU maker Ampere Computing for $6.5 billion in March 2025 , and also as a funding source for the AI model builders . …
… Capuano has been on the marketing and sales side of tech companies, starting at Motorola in 1992, ending up at Juniper Networks a few years later after an acquisition, and worked for Cisco Systems and then Infinera after that for more than a decade before doing a stint at Pluribus Networks, a maker… …
… And that goes way beyond … the bits and bytes of technology.” The importance of relationships This includes 365-day support globally, including local language support, which adds up to a longer-term view of what it takes to construct and maintain both networks and customer relationships irrespectiv… …