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Chip giant Broadcom (AVGO) doesn’t always make the front page when the artificial intelligence (AI) conversation kicks off. Instead, companies like Nvidia (NVDA) tend to dominate the headlines. But Broadcom has quietly and steadily become a key player behind the curtain. As AI reshapes everything from cloud infrastructure to autonomous vehicles, Broadcom’s influence is proving to be anything but background noise.
Now sitting comfortably in the trillion-dollar club, Broadcom’s strength lies in its highly specialized application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), which power the custom AI chips used by tech leaders like Alphabet (GOOGL) and Meta (META). These ASICs form the backbone of modern data centers, enabling the intense computational workloads required for cutting-edge AI models.