The AI Toll Booth
@orsiri:
Broadcom’s Quiet Empire The first wave of artificial intelligence created a simple investment story: buy the companies building the fastest chips and enjoy the ride. The second wave is becoming far more complicated — and, in my view, far more interesting. AI is now colliding with economic reality. Hyperscalers are discovering that training and deploying large language models at global scale requires far more than raw compute power. It demands lower energy costs, faster connectivity, optimised architectures, and infrastructure capable of moving staggering amounts of data without collapsing into latency chaos. That shift is precisely why I believe Broadcom has quietly become one of the most strategically important companies in the entire AI ecosystem. Broadcom is no longer simply benefiting