Great way to start Friday chatting to
@YahooFinance anchors
@MadisonMills22 and
@thebradsmith about Broadcom Earnings, the future of AI Chips (GPUs vs. ASICs), and China Chip Controls.
While Broadcom saw some selling pressure in the wake of its recent quarter, I feel that the overall direction and the health of the business is really good.
Here is the quick breakdown of the reasons for a positive Broadcom thesis
1. Continued top and bottom-line performance while delivering 60 % EBITDA across a diversified business.
2. $12 Billion dollar AI business (ASIC, XPU, Networking) is compelling with several key hyperscale wins and new ops ByteDance, OpenAI etc. XPU will compliment GPU but will grow faster (CAGR) because of the price/performance for inference.
3. Core business (non-AI semi) is in a macro lull that should pivot substantially with the AI device cycle as well as enterprise DC build out.
4. Beyond 3 above, Broadcom will be one of, if not the largest semi content providers to Apple for the new iPhone and across Apple as Intelligence roles out.
5. VMware will play out better than most expect. The cost structure is already improved, and the top customers are sticky (whether happy or not. The Private Cloud offer is interesting and the competition as Hock sees it is more public cloud than other private or on-prem solutions.
$AVGO
"The AI business is performing," The Futurum Group CEO
@danielnewmanUV says.
$AVGO's "in the driver's seat."
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