Broadcom's previous aquisitions have not greatly benefited the hardware market. As a company they seem to be purchasing hardware manufacturers and the pace of a

Broadcom's previous aquisitions have not greatly benefited the hardware market. As a company they seem to be purchasing hardware manufacturers and the pace of advancement and quality of support then drops off a cliff for the acquired products. A good example of this is the LSI/Avago aquisition. Innovation in storage controllers had showered, the new Broadcom NVMe RAiD and HBA controllers offer very little change, and are more just a representation of existing technologies in combination. Qualcomm had been fairly aggressive in it's developments and the overall quality of hardware in the mobile market has improved greatly because of it. Arguably, the ability of ARM to potentially unseat x86 as the supreme architecture is because of Apple and Broadcom's and rapid advancement of their chips. I don't Broadcom would offer us the same.