[ad_1] Broadcom, the semiconductor big, mentioned on Thursday that it had agreed to purchase the software program firm VMware in a transaction valued at $61 billion. The deal would furnish Broadcom with in style computing instruments utilized by a big swath of firms and reshuffle the huge marketplace for enterprise computing know-how.The chip firm will spend the equal of $138.23 per share for VMware within the cash-and-stock deal, it mentioned in a press release. That’s greater than 40 p.c larger than VMware’s inventory worth earlier than rumors of a deal started to flow into over the weekend.The mix would make…