Why in the world would chipmaker Broadcom be interested in VMware?

Over the weekend, rumors began flying that chipmaker Broadcom was interested in acquiring VMware, the company best known for commercializing the virtual machine concept that gave birth to cloud computing. Bloomberg first reported the potential deal on Sunday.
VMware will not come cheap. It had a market capitalization in the neighborhood of $40 billion before the potential deal was reported, a figure that rose some 20% today to around $48 billion as investors placed bets that Broadcom would pay a hefty premium for the smaller company. Conversely, Broadcom is down over 2%.
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