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Article: Broadcom's Epigram Deal Buys Networking Expertise.
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- May 3, 1999
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Picking up on its cable-equipment customers' interest in home networking, Broadcom Corp. swung a $316 million deal last week to buy fellow chipmaker Epigram Inc., which specializes in that area.
Broadcom, which dominates the market for standards-based cable-modem chips, decided to buy Epigram after taking some steps to add home-networking capabilities.
Broadcom also needs to protect its turf in the face of competition from other chipmakers, and its customers want to be able to offer end-to-end solutions that tie together broadband-cable gateways such as modems and digital set-tops.
"They've all been talking to us about it, but at the time, they ...