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>broadcom rug pulled the PCIe switch market. What does this mean? Did they jack up prices?
by gruez 2y ago
>broadcom rug pulled the PCIe switch market.
What does this mean? Did they jack up prices?
- nyrikki 2y agoAvego wanted PLX switches for enterprise storage, not low margin PC/server sales. Same thing that Avego did with Broadcom, LSI, Brocade etc... during the 2010's, buy a market leader, dump the parts that they didn't want, leaving a huge hole in the market. When you realize that Avego was the brand produced when KKR and Silver Lake bought the chip biz from Agilent, it is just the typical private equity play, buy your market position and sell off or shut down the parts you don't care about.
- b112 2y agoWhen the LSI buy happened, they dumped massive amounts of new, but ptior gen stock into the distributor channel, then immediately claimed them EOL. Scumbags.