A point to note is that the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is responsible for investigating and prosecuting breaches of the Act by companies operating in the UK. If the High Court establishes merit in Tesco's claims, Broadcom may find itself in a spot of bother. Its also worth noting that the CMA had already checked and cleared Broadcom's acquisition of VMware in 2023, though that investigation mainly focused on the dominance of a hardware manufacturer owning the world's most popular virtualisation platform.