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Broadcom is the silent partner in the custom-silicon revolution. It designs Google's TPUs and similar accelerators for other hyperscalers, and dominates AI data-center networking through its Tomahawk and Jericho switch families. The VMware acquisition added a recurring software business on top.
Every major AI bull run has a number investors quietly agree to ignore, and the one hiding behind Microsoft, Alphabet, Meta, and their peers right now makes the reported balance sheets look like a rough draft.
The dominant AI chip names have all pulled back sharply in August even as their latest earnings painted a picture of demand growing faster than supply. Before two pivotal earnings reports reset the narrative, three semiconductor stocks are flashing the kind of entry that rarely s