Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss
- ID
- 20588
- Status
- summarized
- Published
- 02 Sep 2026, 2:11 PM
- Fetched
- 02 Sep 2026, 2:44 PM
- Provider
- The Register
- Category
- technology
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- https://www.theregister.com/virtualization/2026/09/02/arm-in-the-enterprise-is-at-least-three-years-away-says-broadcom-software-boss/5293804
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- https://www.theregister.com/headlines.atom
Summary
- Score
- 4.5
- Created
- 02 Sep 2026, 2:45 PM
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- Audience
- developerssaas_founders
What happened
Ram Velaga, president of Broadcom's enterprise software division (which includes VMware), said at VMware Explore that Arm servers won't reach significant enterprise market share for at least three to five years, meaning VMware is in no hurry to port its hypervisor to Arm. VMware currently virtualizes only x86 servers, though it supports Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs and runs a hypervisor on Arm-based SmartNICs. Velaga also dismissed RISC-V as 'absolutely nowhere' in the enterprise.
Why it matters
If you're planning infrastructure migrations or evaluating Arm-based server hardware (e.g., Ampere, AWS Graviton) for on-prem workloads, don't assume VMware ecosystem support will arrive soon — plan for Arm as a silo or stick with x86 for VMware-managed environments. Cloud-native shops running containers on Graviton are unaffected, but VMware-dependent enterprises should treat Arm server adoption as a 2029+ horizon.
Discussion angle
For Malaysian enterprises and MSPs heavily invested in VMware, does this timeline change any near-term hardware procurement decisions, or is everyone already moving to cloud-native and hyperscaler Arm instances anyway?