Broadcom

Dell wants £10m+ from VMware if Tesco case goes against it

Exclusive Retail giant's disty, reseller, and vendor all say they can't and won't sell

Software15 Jan 2026 | 50

Silicon photonics won’t matter ‘anytime soon’ says Broadcom CEO

Chips ’n’ code giant sitting on $50bn of custom AI accelerator orders, sees more to come

Systems12 Dec 2025 | 6

VMware kills vSphere Foundation in parts of EMEA

Exclusive Broadcom told The Register that EMEA customers need to check with their local dealer to see if VVF remains on the menu

Virtualization11 Dec 2025 | 29

European cloud trade group says EU should have blocked VMware-Broadcom merger

Org argues that the approval process was flawed and regulators should have known better

Legal11 Dec 2025 | 12

VMware isn’t budging in its pursuit of Siemens for alleged unpaid licenses

Fresh court filings try to keep the case about copyright, and in US courts

Virtualization28 Nov 2025 | 35

Copackaged optics have officially found their killer app - of course it's AI

SC25 With power in such short supply, every watt counts

SC2522 Nov 2025 | 17

Resilience, not sovereignty, defines OpenStack's next chapter

OpenInfra Summit Price hikes, politics, and platform fatigue drive organizations back toward open alternatives

PaaS + IaaS31 Oct 2025 |

Euro cloud alliance urges action on Broadcom as Microsoft mends fences

CISPE says post-VMware conduct raises fresh antitrust concerns

Networks28 Oct 2025 | 3

Twist in Tesco vs. VMware case as Computacenter files claim against Broadcom, Dell

As negotiations stalled, Broadcom feared Tesco no longer saw it as a long-term partner

Legal28 Oct 2025 | 62

Broadcom cozies up to OpenAI for 10 GW custom chip love-in

Every human deserves their own accelerator, says ChatGPT creator

Systems13 Oct 2025 | 5

Arduino has a new job selling chips for its new owner. Let's not pretend otherwise

Opinion Getting swallowed by a whale is a life-changing event no matter what the whale says

Systems13 Oct 2025 | 26

Cisco’s new router unites disparate datacenters into AI training behemoths

With enough routers, Switchzilla says it can link bit barns 1,000 km apart and scale fabrics beyond 3 exabits per second

Networks08 Oct 2025 | 2

VMware to lose 35 percent of workloads in three years – some to its friends at ‘proper clouds’

Gartner says migrations remain a risky multi-year nightmare, but selective re-platforming can pay off

Virtualization11 Sep 2025 | 36

VMware's in court again. Customer relationships rarely go this wrong

Opinion Have you ever seen the 'Are we the baddies' sketch, Broadcom?

Virtualization08 Sep 2025 | 67

If Broadcom is helping OpenAI build AI chips, here's what they might look like

Analysis Whatever happened to that Baltra thing Tan and crew were helping Apple cook up?

AI + ML05 Sep 2025 | 3

Broadcom admits it’s sold a lot of shelfware to VMware customers

Lands a fourth giant customer for bespoke AI accelerators

Virtualization05 Sep 2025 | 10

Supermarket giant Tesco sues VMware, warns lack of support could disrupt food supply

Goes after Computacenter too, seeks £100 million damages

Virtualization03 Sep 2025 | 129

Defiant Broadcom calls for tech to go back where it belongs: On-premises

Expands VMware Cloud Foundation with AI freebie, new security and storage bits

VMware Explore26 Aug 2025 | 26

VMware before Broadcom was 'a unicorn in fluffy cloudland'

The CEO of VMware's most ardent partner – Yves Sandfort of comdivision – on what's gone well, and where Broadcom needs to do better

VMware Explore25 Aug 2025 | 11

Broadcom’s Jericho4 ASICs just opened the door to multi-datacenter AI training

Forget building massive super clusters. Cobble them together from existing datacenters instead

Cloud Infrastructure Month06 Aug 2025 | 1

Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

black hat Psst, wanna steal someone's biometrics?

Patches05 Aug 2025 | 20

EU cloud gang challenges Broadcom's $61B VMWare buy in court

COMMENT CISPE cites recent channel changes, but the deal was decided on different matters

Virtualization24 Jul 2025 | 6

VMware slows release cadence for flagship Cloud Foundation suite, but extends support

Analysts have warned Broadcom may slow innovation

Virtualization18 Jul 2025 | 1

VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out

Exclusive Second major change in 18 months will be most unwelcome for many - as will critical flaws announced today

Cloud Infrastructure Month16 Jul 2025 | 49

With Tomahawk Ultra, Broadcom asks who needs UALink when there's Ethernet?

The never Nvidia networking party just got another option

Networks15 Jul 2025 | 1

Arista acquires VMware’s VeloCloud SD-WAN outfit from Broadcom

It's 2025 so even this networking deal is about AI, which is apparently about to change wide area networks

Networks02 Jul 2025 | 4

How Broadcom is quietly plotting a takeover of the AI infrastructure market

analysis AI is a nesting doll of networks, so why reinvent the wheel when you can license it instead

Datacenter Networking Nexus27 Jun 2025 | 5

Broadcom's answer to VMware pricing outrage: You're using it wrong

VCF bundle is worth it if you make the most of every part, says CTO

Virtualization20 Jun 2025 | 40

Broadcom delivers VMware Cloud Foundation 9 – the release that realizes its private cloud vision

Promises silos for VMs, storage, and networks are out. Happy cloud-like days are in, without hyperscale complications

Virtualization17 Jun 2025 | 2

Omni-Path is back on the AI and HPC menu in a new challenge to Nvidia's InfiniBand

After a five-year hiatus, Cornelis' interconnect returns at 400Gbps, with Ethernet support next

European Supercomputing09 Jun 2025 |

Broadcom sends VMware to record revenue, margins, as most big customers sign for private cloud bundles

Chip biz surging too as CEO Hock Tan predicts optical GPU interconnects are a year or two away

Virtualization06 Jun 2025 | 24

Broadcom aims a Tomahawk at Nvidia's AI networking empire with 102.4T photonic switch

Chip giant's latest ASIC promises 200GbE to up to 512 GPUs

Networks04 Jun 2025 |

VMware price hikes? Between 800 and 1,500%, claim Euro customers

Report slates end of perpetual licenses, death of monthly pay-as-you-go model, and 'punitive' changes by Broadcom

PaaS + IaaS22 May 2025 | 54

Broadcom employee data stolen by ransomware crooks following hit on payroll provider

Updated Tech giant was in process of dropping payroll biz as it learned of breach

Cyber-crime16 May 2025 | 1

VMware revives its free ESXi hypervisor in an utterly obscure way

Home labs and bare bones test rigs matter so Broadcom's back in the game

Virtualization14 Apr 2025 | 42

VMware opens beta for an upgrade to its midrange vSphere Foundation bundle

A new alternative for those pondering what to do when vSphere 7.x goes end of life in October

Virtualization11 Apr 2025 | 2

VMware distributor Arrow says minimum software subs set to jump from 16 to 72 cores

Claims Broadcom will levy 20 percent penalty for customers who don’t pay before renewal deadlines

Virtualization28 Mar 2025 | 40

VMware sues Siemens for allegedly using unlicensed software

As rumors swirl about a new 72-core minimum vSphere license requirement

Virtualization26 Mar 2025 | 59

Broadcom has won. 70 percent of large VMware customers bought its biggest bundle

Now working with seven hyperscalers for custom AI silicon. Not working on acquiring bits of Intel

Virtualization07 Mar 2025 | 18

VMware splats guest-to-hypervisor escape bugs already exploited in wild

The heap overflow zero-day in the memory unsafe code by Miss Creant

Virtualization04 Mar 2025 | 8

Broadcom starts beta for VMware Cloud Foundation 9, the release it reckons will douse user anger

Exclusive Pricing, licensing changes won't feel so bad once you take this private cloud stack for a spin, apparently

Virtualization04 Mar 2025 | 15

Talk of Broadcom and TSMC grabbing pieces of Intel lights fire under investors

Chipzilla's design and manufacturing limbs said to be on the table

Systems20 Feb 2025 | 12

Broadcom reportedly investigates acquiring Intel’s chip design biz

Shhh. Don’t tell Hock Tan about those Xeons that unlock functions when you pay a fee

Systems17 Feb 2025 | 16

Rackspace moving some of its own workloads off VMware to address bigger Broadcom bills

Exclusive New home, Platform9, says it’s also helping a Fortune 500 company to migrate 40,000 VMs

Virtualization05 Feb 2025 | 8

VMware plugs steal-my-credentials holes in Cloud Foundation

Consider patching soon because cybercrooks love to hit vulnerable tools from Broadcom's virtualization giant

Patches30 Jan 2025 |

Fear of the unknown keeps Broadcom's VMware herd captive. Don't be cowed

Opinion Prisoners of ware can’t escape by looking at each other. Form a committee, soldiers

Virtualization28 Jan 2025 | 31

VMware users gripe over 3-year commitment to renew licenses

Chips and software giant Broadcom says it's 'flexible and open' on licensing terms, but customers disagree

Virtualization23 Jan 2025 | 28

VMware migrations will be long, expensive, risky, Gartner warns

And possibly even more so if you don’t start planning yours soon

Virtualization21 Jan 2025 | 34

Euro-cloud Anexia moves 12,000 VMs off VMware to homebrew KVM platform

Exclusive Faced with huge license cost increase, provider and customers were both happy to make migration a mission

Virtualization13 Jan 2025 | 37

Broadcom filing mentions major VMware Cloud Foundation releases in March and July

Will they make price rises palatable? Or bring more of what new Netflix lawsuit calls Broadcom's ‘Buy. Chop up. Raise prices' business plan?

Virtualization06 Jan 2025 | 5

Ingram Micro to 'stop doing business' with Broadcom, downgrade to 'limited engagement' on VMware

Exclusive Distributor couldn't do a deal that delivered 'appropriate shareholder return', chip giant says it 'continues to refine' its channel

Virtualization16 Dec 2024 | 18

Broadcom says VMware is a better money-making machine than it hoped

Chip side of the biz expects to take lion's share of hyperscalers' $60-90 billion XPU spend in 2027, helped by 3nm models coming next year

Virtualization13 Dec 2024 | 21

Apple reportedly building AI server processor with help from Broadcom

Something called 'Baltra' expected to make its debut in 2026, perhaps with tech both already use

Systems12 Dec 2024 | 10

Broadcom loses another big VMware customer: UK fintech cloud Beeks Group, and most of its 20,000 VMs

A massively increased bill was one motive, but customers went cold on Virtzilla, and OpenNebula proved more efficient

Virtualization02 Dec 2024 | 40

No, Broadcom did not just end VMware's flagship VCDX certification program

Sure, it sent an email and FAQ saying it had – but that was a mistake, you see

Virtualization28 Nov 2024 | 9

AWS bends to Broadcom's will with VMware Cloud Foundation as-a-service

Microsoft, Oracle, and IBM are all doing it. Andy Jassy's rent-a-server shop may have felt it was leaving money on the table

Virtualization26 Nov 2024 | 5