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Broadcom Wins Two 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year Awards for Networking and Virtualization

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced that it has received 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year awards for Infrastructure in the categories of Networking and Virtualization.

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  • PALO ALTO, Calif., April 09, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) today announced that it has received 2024 Google Cloud Technology Partner of the Year awards for Infrastructure in the categories of Networking and Virtualization.
  • Broadcom’s partnership with Google Cloud spans multiple leading products including AppNeta to provide Google Cloud customers with network performance monitoring capabilities via Google Cloud Marketplace.
  • By running VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine, mutual customers benefit from a highly efficient cloud operating model that provides the scale and agility of public cloud with the security and performance of private cloud.
  • More recently, Broadcom and Google Cloud announced plans to support license portability of VMware Cloud Foundation to Google Cloud VMware Engine.

Broadcom and Google Cloud Announce Expanded Partnership to Help Accelerate Innovation for Enterprises

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Tuesday, April 9, 2024

LAS VEGAS, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Next '24, LAS VEGAS -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) and Google Cloud today announced an expanded partnership that will involve optimizing Broadcom's VMware workloads for Google Cloud, jointly collaborating on go-to-market initiatives, adding more Broadcom products and services to Google Cloud Marketplace, and Broadcom infusing Google Cloud's generative AI capabilities.

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  • Broadcom will migrate its VMware workloads to Google Cloud, collaborate on joint go-to-market initiatives, and deliver new gen AI capabilities
    LAS VEGAS, April 9, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Cloud Next '24, LAS VEGAS -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) and Google Cloud today announced an expanded partnership that will involve optimizing Broadcom's VMware workloads for Google Cloud, jointly collaborating on go-to-market initiatives, adding more Broadcom products and services to Google Cloud Marketplace, and Broadcom infusing Google Cloud's generative AI capabilities.
  • "Google Cloud has been a trusted partner in our digital transformation journey at Broadcom," said Rich Jardine, Vice President, Cloud Platform Engineering and Operations, Broadcom.
  • Earlier this year, Broadcom and Google Cloud announced plans to support portability of VMware Cloud Foundation licenses to Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE).
  • With VMware Cloud Foundation on Google Cloud VMware Engine, customers can simplify infrastructure, improve reliability, and build applications with BigQuery and Google Cloud's AI/ML capabilities.

Broadcom Extends Leadership in Custom Accelerators and Merchant Networking Solutions for AI Infrastructure

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Wednesday, March 20, 2024

Consumer AI use cases are increasingly driving the need for lowest power custom AI accelerators, while open, standards-based merchant networking solutions scale large AI clusters.

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  • Consumer AI use cases are increasingly driving the need for lowest power custom AI accelerators, while open, standards-based merchant networking solutions scale large AI clusters.
  • Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) is evolving a broad portfolio of technologies to extend its leadership in enabling next-generation AI infrastructure.
  • This includes foundational technologies and advanced packaging capabilities aimed at building the highest performance, lowest power custom AI accelerators.
  • “The innovations we’ve introduced extend our leadership for custom AI accelerators, Ethernet, PCI Express and optical interconnect portfolios.

Broadcom Delivers Industry’s First 51.2-Tbps Co-Packaged Optics Ethernet Switch Platform for Scalable AI Systems

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Thursday, March 14, 2024

The product integrates eight silicon photonics based 6.4-Tbps optical engines with Broadcom’s best-in-class StrataXGS® Tomahawk®5 switch chip.

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  • The product integrates eight silicon photonics based 6.4-Tbps optical engines with Broadcom’s best-in-class StrataXGS® Tomahawk®5 switch chip.
  • The optical interconnect is critical for both front-end and back-end networks in large scale generative AI clusters.
  • Today, pluggable optical transceivers consume approximately 50% of system power and constitute more than 50% of the cost of a traditional switch system.
  • “Our partnership with Broadcom to design systems with highly integrated co-packaged optics will enable a more power efficient future network.

Broadcom Extends Technology and Volume Leadership on AI Optical Components

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Wednesday, March 13, 2024

Broadcom’s state-of-the-art optics technologies facilitate high speed interconnects for front-end and back-end networks of large-scale generative AI compute clusters.

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  • Broadcom’s state-of-the-art optics technologies facilitate high speed interconnects for front-end and back-end networks of large-scale generative AI compute clusters.
  • VCSEL and EML technologies play a crucial role in enabling high-speed interconnects for AI and ML systems.
  • “Generative AI has unleashed a network transformation necessitating an order of magnitude increase in high-speed optical links compared to standard network requirements,” said Near Margalit, Ph.
  • Broadcom is once again among the first suppliers of components enabling the next generation of optical transceivers.”
    “Enterprises continue to demand larger AI clusters, elevating the importance of cutting-edge optical interconnects,” said Craig Thompson, vice president of LinkX products at NVIDIA.

Broadcom Extends AI Workload Scale with Industry-First PCI Express Gen5/Gen6 Retimers

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Wednesday, March 6, 2024

Broadcom’s investment and deployment scale, along with deep SerDes, protocol and software expertise, are the foundation for industry-leading PCIe switches and retimers.

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  • Broadcom’s investment and deployment scale, along with deep SerDes, protocol and software expertise, are the foundation for industry-leading PCIe switches and retimers.
  • “PCIe is one of the most critical and widely-adopted protocols for interconnecting CPUs, AI accelerators, NICs and storage devices.
  • Broadcom is also committed to accelerate the open AI ecosystem further with PCIe Gen7 based solutions in the near future.
  • Broadcom Architecture: 50% lower power and form factor flexibility with midplane/backplane/cables enable customers to create advanced AI sub-systems.

Broadcom Debuts Groundbreaking WatchTower Platform for Mainframe Observability

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Tuesday, March 5, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today the availability of the WatchTower Platform™, an innovative, open observability solution that improves business performance by streamlining identification and resolution of high-priority incidents in the mainframe environment.

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  • PALO ALTO, Calif., March 05, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced today the availability of the WatchTower Platform™, an innovative, open observability solution that improves business performance by streamlining identification and resolution of high-priority incidents in the mainframe environment.
  • To ease implementation, WatchTower builds upon the foundation of already-popular mainframe AIOps solutions while enhancing the visibility of mainframe telemetry in enterprise observability tools.
  • “The availability of mainframe telemetry in this open observability framework is a huge step forward,” said Cory Minton, field CTO, Splunk.
  • The WatchTower Platform Suite seamlessly integrates new capabilities with established AIOps solutions based on SYSVIEW®, OPS/MVS®, NetMaster®, and Vantage™.

KKR to Acquire Broadcom’s End-User Computing Division

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Monday, February 26, 2024

KKR today announced the signing of a definitive agreement with Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) to acquire its End-User Computing Division (the “EUC Division”) in a transaction valued at approximately $4 billion.

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  • KKR today announced the signing of a definitive agreement with Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO) to acquire its End-User Computing Division (the “EUC Division”) in a transaction valued at approximately $4 billion.
  • Originally a division of VMware prior to Broadcom’s acquisition, the EUC Division provides a leading suite of digital workspace solutions that allow organizations to securely deliver and manage applications, desktops and data across any device or platform.
  • The EUC Division leverages advanced data and intelligence in order to drive greater scale, speed and effectiveness for today’s modern, digital workspace.
  • Evercore, Deutsche Bank Securities Inc. and Jefferies LLC are acting as financial advisors and Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP is acting as legal advisor to KKR.

Broadcom Inc. to Host Enabling AI in Infrastructure Investor Meeting

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Tuesday, February 20, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, will host an Investor meeting, Broadcom Enabling AI in Infrastructure, in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.

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  • PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (Nasdaq: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, will host an Investor meeting, Broadcom Enabling AI in Infrastructure, in San Jose, California, on Wednesday, March 20, 2024.
  • The Broadcom Enabling AI in Infrastructure Investor meeting will begin at 9:00 a.m. PT / 12:00 p.m.
  • ET and will include presentations from Charlie Kawwas, President, Semiconductor Solutions Group and General Managers on Broadcom's merchant silicon portfolio.
  • The Investor meeting will be webcast live at https://investors.broadcom.com under Events & Presentations.

Broadcom Inc. to Announce First Quarter Fiscal Year 2024 Financial Results on Thursday, March 7, 2024; Conference call at 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time

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Friday, February 16, 2024

PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, announced it will report its first quarter fiscal year 2024 financial results and business outlook on Thursday, March 7, 2024 after the close of the market.

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  • PALO ALTO, Calif., Feb. 16, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Broadcom Inc. (NASDAQ: AVGO), a global technology leader that designs, develops and supplies semiconductor and infrastructure software solutions, announced it will report its first quarter fiscal year 2024 financial results and business outlook on Thursday, March 7, 2024 after the close of the market.
  • Broadcom's management will host a conference call starting at 2:15 p.m. Pacific Time on the same day to discuss these results and business outlook, instead of at 2:00 p.m. Pacific Time as previously announced.
  • To Listen via Telephone: Preregistration is required by the conference call operator.
  • Upon registering, you will be emailed a link to the dial-in number and unique PIN.