{"id":35594,"date":"2025-10-18T01:01:39","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/1-65-trillion-chip-giant-broadcom-cuts-staff-in-units-like-sales-and-accounts\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:01:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:01:39","slug":"1-65-trillion-chip-giant-broadcom-cuts-staff-in-units-like-sales-and-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/1-65-trillion-chip-giant-broadcom-cuts-staff-in-units-like-sales-and-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"$1.65 trillion chip giant Broadcom cuts staff in units like sales and accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/6761f4356c531c315b88dafa?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Broadcom CEO Hock Tan speaking at a conference\"\/><figcaption>Broadcom CEO Hock Tan<\/p>\n<p>Ying Tang\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Broadcom cut staff in sales and account management roles this week, according to LinkedIn posts.<\/li>\n<li>The layoffs follow Broadcom&#039;s 2023 acquisition of VMware, which saw its workforce halved.<\/li>\n<li>Broadcom has benefited from the AI boom by designing chips to power the technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The $1.65 trillion chip giant Broadcom cut staff earlier this week.<\/p>\n<p>The cuts on Thursday affected staff largely in sales, as well as customer success, account management, and solutions, according to LinkedIn posts and a person familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s unclear how many roles were affected.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcom has been making rolling cuts at the company, including at software firm VMware, which it acquired in late 2023. VMware&#039;s workforce has been slashed by roughly in half, Business Insider reported earlier this year. Broadcom has also been increasing prices on VMware&#039;s products. <\/p>\n<p>Broadcom has benefited from the AI boom by designing chips to power the technology. It first reached a trillion-dollar market cap late last year. On Monday, it inked a strategic agreement with OpenAI for 10 gigawatts of custom AI accelerators.<\/p>\n<p>Broadcom did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em>Have a tip? Contact this reporter via email at <\/em><em>rmchan@businessinsider.com<\/em>, <em>or Signal at rosal.13. Use a personal email address, a nonwork WiFi network, and a nonwork device; <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/insider-guide-to-securely-sharing-whistleblower-information-about-powerful-institutions-2021-10\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><em>here&#039;s our guide to sharing information securely<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadcom CEO Hock Tan Ying Tang\/NurPhoto via Getty Images Broadcom cut staff in sales and account management roles this week, according to LinkedIn posts. The layoffs follow Broadcom&#039;s 2023 acquisition of VMware, which saw its workforce halved. Broadcom has benefited from the AI boom by designing chips to power the technology. The $1.65 trillion chip [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35595,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-35594","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35594\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35595"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}