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I feel like them working with broadcom is another warning sign
by whaleofatw2022 2y ago
I feel like them working with broadcom is another warning sign
- mgh2 2y agoWhy? Care for references instead of opinions?
- observationist 2y agoSam seems to be finding as many devils to bargain with as he can; Broadcom is a particularly devilish company.
- crowcroft 2y agoMakes sense to work with them if they’re trying to design some kind of ASIC that would work for training or inference though?
- worldsayshi 2y agoWhat have they done?
- nick__m 2y agoThey buy companies like VMWare and Computer-Associate, gut them and jack the price until they only have captive consumers from the fortune 500.
- alephnerd 2y agoCA and VMWare were already dead on acquisition. Splunk+Datadog and AWS+Nutanix+Cohesity respectively ate much of CA and VMWare's marketshare.
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- ZeroCool2u 2y agoI'm not saying that I necessarily agree, but the general consensus on HN seems to be that Broadcom is now less of a tech company and more of a holding company that raids others, for example VMWare, and extracts all value to the detriment of customers and the acquired company. I don't think that's completely wrong, but it's a big company and I'm sure there are some better areas of the company than others.
- alephnerd 2y ago> general consensus on HN General consensus on HN is generally wrong.
- OrigamiPastrami 2y agoIs there somewhere the general consensus is generally right?
- Workaccount2 2y ago"Journalists" seem to trust twitter an awful lot...
- ants_everywhere 2y agomath departments
- formerly_proven 2y agoBroadcom is on track to spend 10bn on RND this year. Basically a pure-play patent troll!
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- plegresl 2y agoWhy? Google also partners with Broadcom for TPU.
- nabla9 2y agoBecause Google's TPU' are so bad? https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/22/google_broadcom_tpus/ https://www.theregister.com/2023/09/22/google_broadcom_tpus/
- mhandley 2y agoBroadcom also builds xPUs for Google, Meta and Bytedance. Maybe these companies know a thing or two.
- kccqzy 2y agoBroadcom is a vendor. They provide the main skeleton of a chip so that the client only needs to focus on the product differentiator, which is the compute part of the chip. They can worry less about other parts that are not their core competency.