European trade group slams American chip company Broadcom, calls its actions in Europe ‘death sentence’ for …

Lobbying group Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers (CISPE) in Europe has urged EU antitrust regulators to temporarily stop U.S. chipmaker Broadcom from ending its VMware Cloud Service Provider programme in Europe. Ramping up its fight against the US tech company Broadcom, the trade body for smaller cloud providers is asking the European Commission to impose interim measures. CISPE wants the European Commission to block Broadcom from terminating the VMware Cloud Service Provider program, calling the decision a death sentence for some tech suppliers and an illegal squeeze on customer choice. CISPE wants the EU to pass an interim measure to immediately suspend Broadcom’s termination of its VCSP partner programme, allow partners excluded to be readmitted to the programme and include protection measures against retaliation from Broadcom.