The European Commission decided on Tuesday 20 December to open an in-depth investigation to assess Broadcom’s proposed acquisition of VMware under the EU Merger Regulation.
In particular, the Commission is concerned that the transaction would allow Broadcom to restrict competition in the market for certain hardware components that are interoperable with VMWare software.
Broadcom is a computer hardware company that offers network interface cards ('NICs'), Fibre Channel host bus adapters...