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Level One Buy Changes Chip Market

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Steve Harmon
Steve Harmon
Mar 6, 1999

Intel’s $2.2 billion stock offer for Level One (NASDAQ:LEVL) redraws the network chip market and validates our February dropping of Broadcom (NASDAQ:BRCM) from the ’99 HotWatch list. At that time my instinct said competition was looming large.

After losing ground since February BRCM shares rally a little today after the news and the implications come out. Keep in mind that Broadcom still enjoys the dominant market share in set-tops and DSL, however.

So calling Intel the winner in networking chips is too premature by a long shot.

Intel should have acquired Broadcom and it would have had the industry leading position in both PC and network chips.

Will someone else take out BRCM now? I can’t imagine IBM, Cisco or Motorola letting Intel own this space also. Broadcom looks like a target if these three firms have their druthers. If not then I think Broadcom must get very aggressive — a huge battle is brewing.

Today’s snapshot:



























 
05-Mar-99
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ISDEX
320.75
15.11
4.94%

NASDAQ
2,337.11
44.22
1.93%

DJIA
9,736.08
268.68
2.84%
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