Just days after revealing a new strategic partnership with OpenAI, semiconductor giant Broadcom has once again made headlines—this time for initiating another round of job cuts. The move follows thousands of redundancies made in the wake of its 2023 acquisition of VMware, and comes amid a broader wave of layoffs sweeping through the global technology industry. In early October, OpenAI and Broadcom unveiled a collaboration to develop custom AI accelerators for the ChatGPT developer. However, within days of that announcement, reports from Business Insider suggested that Broadcom was cutting roles across multiple departments, primarily in sales and account management. While the exact number of affected employees remains unclear, estimates suggest the figure could reach several hundred. To assess the full scale of workforce reductions in the tech sector, analysts at RationalFX compiled layoff data from verified public sources, including U.S. WARN notices, TrueUp, TechCrunch, and the Layoffs.fyi tracker. The dataset covers all confirmed job cut announcements made since January 2025, and the complete ranking of companies by the number of layoffs has been made available via Google Drive. According to the aggregated findings, at least 184,569 employees across the global technology sector have been made redundant so far this year. … Continue reading Report: Broadcom Announces Further Job Cuts as Global Tech Layoffs Approach 185,000 in 2025