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BRCM is becoming more like a service company designing ASICs for other companies who want custom ASICs. There are many companies who do this? How is this news?

BRCM is a leader in SerDes along with Marvell and other companies. There is so many IPs from Synopsys and Cadence that in turn many of these chip companies use. Not sure what is hoopla here. Nobody is going to completely vertically integrate all these IPs.

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It's news to people who know nothing about hardware.