Broadcom to Acquire NetLogic Microsystems for $3.7 Billion

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Broadcom Corp., the maker of communications chips, agreed to buy NetLogic Microsystems Inc. for about $3.7 billion in cash to gain processors used in data networks.

NetLogic shareholders will get $50 a share, the companies said today in a statementBloomberg Terminal. That’s 57 percent more than Santa Clara, California-based NetLogic’s closing price on Sept. 9.