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Broadcom has still not said how many of VMware’s 38,000 employees it plans to cut now that the deal is closed, but state-by-state Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) disclosures show the layoffs have surpassed 2,000.

VMware layoffs are creating ‘significant concern and chaos’ among customers and partners in the sale trenches, said C.R. Howdyshell, CEO of Advizex, a Fulcrum IT Partners company

As of today, VMware will operate as VMware by Broadcom

‘Broadcom Inc. and VMware, Inc. today announced they have received all required regulatory approvals and intend to close Broadcom’s acquisition of VMware on November 22, 2023', according to a statement Broadcom released Tuesday morning

The chipmaker is telling shareholders of both companies it now expects the deal to close “soon”

China is considering stopping the $61bn deal over US chip restrictions and regulators with the Korean Fair Trade Commission are forcing 10 years’ worth of conditions

VMWare CEO on the vendor's newly launched Private AI Foundation and what it means for the channel

The rumours circulate following Broadcom’s statement around VMware's cloud strategy

The UK's stamp of approval comes one week after the European Commission gave the multi-billion dollar deal the thumbs up

We canvassed channel partners for their thoughts on the risk the Broadcom takeover could present to UK competition