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The
deal, Broadcom's largest ever, will help the chipmaker diversify
into enterprise software.
Broadcom offered Marvell and other rivals interoperability
commitments related to its Fibre Channel Host-Bus Adapters (FC
HBAs), a kind of storage adapters, the European Commission said,
confirming a Reuters story last month.
Marvell and other rivals will have "guaranteed access to the
interoperability Application Programming Interfaces as well as
to the materials, tools and technical support necessary for the
development and certification of third-party FC HBAs", the EU
competition enforcer said.
Marvell and other rivals will also have guaranteed access to the
source code for all of Broadcom's current and future FC HBA
drivers through an irrevocable open source license.
"The commitments offered by Broadcom will enable its only rival
Marvell, to continue competing on equal footing and ensure a
similar protection for any future entrants," EU antitrust chief
Margrethe Vestager said in a statement.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission and the UK competition agency
are also examining the deal.
"We continue to make progress with our various regulatory
filings around the world, having received legal merger clearance
in Australia, Brazil, Canada, the European Union, South Africa,
and Taiwan, and foreign investment control clearance in all
necessary jurisdictions," Broadcom said in a statement.
(Reporting by Foo Yun Chee; editing by Jason Neely)
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