The $1.65 trillion chip big Broadcom lower workers earlier this week.
The cuts on Thursday affected workers largely in gross sales, in addition to buyer success, account administration, and options, in response to LinkedIn posts and an individual accustomed to the matter.
It is unclear what number of roles had been affected.
Broadcom has been making rolling cuts on the firm, together with at software program agency VMware, which it acquired in late 2023. VMware’s workforce has been slashed by roughly in half, Enterprise Insider reported earlier this 12 months. Broadcom has additionally been rising costs on VMware’s merchandise.
Broadcom has benefited from the AI increase by designing chips to energy the expertise. It first reached a trillion-dollar market cap late final 12 months. On Monday, it inked a strategic settlement with OpenAI for 10 gigawatts of customized AI accelerators.
Broadcom didn’t reply to a request for remark.
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