Broadcom, one of the world's largest companies by market capitalization, completed its acquisition of VMware in 2023.
Broadcom announced the planned VMware acquisition in 2022 and completed the transaction on November 22, 2023. The deal brought VMware's virtualization and cloud-software business into Broadcom's expanding infrastructure-software portfolio.
Broadcom is a major designer, developer, and supplier of semiconductor and infrastructure-software products. Its technology is used in areas including networking, broadband, storage, wireless communications, and data centers.
The transaction attracted regulatory attention in several jurisdictions because of the size and strategic importance of VMware's enterprise software. Broadcom's acquisition of CA Technologies in 2018 and Symantec's enterprise-security business in 2019 were earlier examples of its strategy of combining semiconductor operations with infrastructure software. The answer is 2023, the year the deal legally closed, not the year it was announced.