Avago to Acquire LSI

by Kristian Vättö on 12/16/2013 2:50 PM EST
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  • klmccaughey - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    Wowzers - that's a big gobble!
  • dgingeri - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    Really, really big fish chomps down on a really big fish. I hope this doesn't hurt the industry. There are few enough hardware RAID controller makers in the world. We don't need one fewer.
  • toyotabedzrock - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    Didn't LSI buy sandforce, or was that another company?
  • DanNeely - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    They did in 2011.
  • MichalSuchyn - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

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  • Cainethanatos - Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - link

    You're a well paid web designer ?
  • surt - Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - link

    No, the well paid web designers make about 3 times that.
  • Kyrra1234 - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    I wonder if this deal is at all tied in with Dell? Silver Lake Partners is helping finance the purchase of LSI, the same company that helped Dell go private. Dell gets a lot of chips from LSI (MegaRAID ships as Dell's PERC, plus all the SAS stuff that LSI makes that goes into Dell servers).

    It's more likely that Silver Lake Partners just deals in with these types of companies, so they just happen to show up on both. LSI hasn't really been that strong of a company, probably good for them to join up with another large ASIC company.
  • SodaAnt - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    Silver Lake was already a part owner of Avago from way back until 2005, so probably unrelated to the Dell deal.
  • lecaf - Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - link

    ASIC? I wonder if there is a BitCoin angle to this acquisition. Avango is in Singapore and lots of Chinese there...
  • bigi - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    LSI purchased 3ware not long ago.
  • iwod - Monday, December 16, 2013 - link

    I really like LSI. Sad to see them go.
  • dew111 - Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - link

    This just blew my mind. I work at Agilent Technologies, across the street from LSI. Avago spun out from us, and now is buying the guys across the street. Small world.
  • boe_d - Friday, March 13, 2015 - link

    Why are the Avago / LSI RAID 16i and 24i controllers so obsolete? They haven't released a 16i or 24i raid controller in AGES. They need a 16i and 24i 12Gb/S PCIe 3.0 RAID controller with 2GB of cache. Ideally it would have an optional 2 card width model with SIGNIFICANT heat radiators. Avago has a HBA 16i unit but that isn't the same as a RAID controller.

    Their 9260 and 9280 do not have nearly enough cache or bandwidth for modern, fast drives. Other RAID manufacturers have modern 16i units - I hate to switch to another manufacturer as I've used LSI in my servers for many years but if they have given up on the LSI line it is time to move on.

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