It has been announced that Broadcom wants to take over Qualcomm for a whopping $ 100.000 billion, the equivalent of € 86.062 million.

One of the most important companies in the smartphone segment is Qualcomm, which supplies processors to most of the high-end and mid-range smartphone manufacturers. Its Snapdragon processors with Adreno graphics and integrated LTE support are part of the supremacy of the company, which is a leader in the manufacture of SoC for smartphones and that even the all-powerful Intel has not been able to compete with its solutions. The difference increases, because in the coming weeks the arrival of notebooks based on SoC ARM with Windows 10 is expected, something that will increase the supremacy of the company.

Well, Broadcom would be preparing a brutal amount of money, specifically 100.000 million dollars to acquire Qualcomm, which in exchange is 86.062 million euros. The information has been leaked by the Wall Street Journal, who has cited sources close to the operation, this agreement being able to close in the next few hours and it would be officially announced next week. This operation has also been announced a day after Broadcom announced the transfer of its headquarters from Singapore to the United States.

The numbers of the transaction are so large that it is possibly the largest acquisition transaction in the industrial segment that has been known to date. How could it be otherwise, after knowing this operation, the shares of these two companies soared in a matter of minutes. This agreement comes at an opportune moment, just when Apple left Qualcomm aside after countless legal battles, throwing itself into the arms of the competition, although it is not clear if it will be with Intel or MediaTek, something that will mean a significant increase in the capital of the company. lucky company.