Nvidia's biggest customers are lining up to take it down using ASICs and Broadcom could be the winner of that battle

Date:
Thu, 11 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Description:
Broadcom secures fourth custom XPU client, believed to be OpenAI, joining Meta, Google and ByteDance in turning to ASICs to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs.

FULL STORY ======================================================================OpenAI (probably) joins Google, Meta and ByteDance in Broadcoms custom ASIC partnership Broadcom secures $10 billion AI rack orders as Nvidia faces new rivals Nvidias largest customers pursue in-house chips with Broadcom guiding the transition

As weve reported more than a new times in the past, the AI hardware market is changing, with some of Nvidias biggest customers looking for ways to cut
costs and gain more control over their systems.

Rather than relying solely on Nvidias costly GPUs, companies are beginning to design their own ASICs tailored to their workloads.

Broadcom is one of the bigger players in this space, offering the expertise needed to turn those custom designs into production-ready chips and systems. Broadcom's broad appeal

Reporting on Broadcoms financial results for its third quarter, The Next Platform says the silicon supplier has now secured a fourth customer for its custom XPU program, adding to partnerships with Google, Meta, and ByteDance.

Industry reports and timing, suggest this newest client is OpenAI, which is developing its own inference processor known as Titan under the leadership of Richard Ho, a former Google TPU engineer.

Nvidia still dominates the market of course by some way - with its Blackwell GB300 NVL72, but deploying such rackscale systems is expensive, and firms
with massive AI models want hardware designed to better match their needs.

Custom ASICs are seen as a way to rein in costs while offering greater flexibility than an off-the-shelf GPU and Broadcom is well positioned to
guide complex accelerator projects through design, production, and packaging.

On a call with Wall Street analysts, chief executive Hock Tan expanded on Broadcoms unnamed fourth client ( cough , OpenAI , cough ), saying, Now further to these three customers, as we had previously mentioned, we have
been working with other prospects on their own AI accelerators."

"Last quarter, one of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly characterized them as a qualified customer for XPUs and, in fact, have secured over $10 billion of orders of AI racks based on
our XPUs," Tan continued.

"And reflecting this, we now expect the outlook for our fiscal 2026 AI
revenue to improve significantly from what we had indicated last quarter.

That $10 billion figure refers to complete AI rack systems, not Broadcoms share for the underlying chip design.

Revenue from those orders is scheduled to begin in the third quarter of
fiscal 2026.

It's clear that Nvidias biggest buyers are no longer content to depend solely on GPUs, and by investing in ASICs they are betting that custom hardware will bring efficiency and control. With its expertise, Broadcom is positioning itself as the company that can make those designs a reality. You might also like OpenAI is talking Broadcom to produce chips capable of rivaling Nvidia OpenAI is almost ready to deliver first prototype of its AI GPU - General Processing Unit Broadcom has allegedly hiked VMware costs between 800 and 1,500%



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