AVGO

Broadcom Inc

research_scan theme='agi-infrastructure'; value_chain_position='picks-and-shovels'; Custom AI ASIC design partner for Google TPU, Meta MTIA, and multiple additional hyperscaler captive-silicon programs — 18–36 month qualification cycle protects rent against merchant-GPU price competition. As Sonnet 5 promotional pricing signals platform-layer margin compression, custom-ASIC rent captured by AVGO is one layer out and structurally more durable than NVDA merchant-GPU margin under C-04/C-26 rent-migration frame.