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# Broadcom (AVGO)

Broadcom designs custom AI accelerators and networking chips, and on 2026-10-26 it disclosed a new lease backstop for AI racks with a maximum potential liability of about $43B.

Updated Oct 29, 2026

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Analysis and information

## What it does

Broadcom designs and supplies semiconductors and infrastructure software. Semiconductors were 70% of its revenue in the quarter to 2026-08-02. Its AI business designs custom accelerators, which it calls XPUs, and the networking that links them.

## Role in the theme

In the Chips, equipment and servers theme, Broadcom designs custom AI accelerators and networking chips for large AI customers. It also backs the leases on AI racks that its customers deploy.

## Latest

- **2026-10-26:** Broadcom arranged for financial partners to take on part of the agreements to purchase AI racks built on its custom accelerators, and the related leases with a customer. It is giving residual value support to a new special purpose vehicle. Its maximum potential liability, undiscounted, is about $43B. The customer is not named.
- **2026-09-10:** Broadcom's quarterly report disclosed an earlier backstop with a maximum of about $29B. It sits under an "AI XPV" platform that aims to enable more than 20 GW of compute for frontier AI labs through 2028.
- **2026-09-02:** Fiscal Q3 2026 revenue was $29.6B, up 86%. AI semiconductor revenue was $16.7B, up 221%. Free cash flow was $13.7B.
- **2026-09-02:** Q4 guidance is revenue of about $34.8B. Broadcom expects AI semiconductor revenue of $21.7B in Q4.

## What to watch

- **Backstop size,** which rises as racks are delivered and falls as the customer pays its leases.
- **AI semiconductor revenue** against the $21.7B Q4 expectation.
- **Next report:** fiscal Q4 2026, which ends on 2026-11-01. The date is not announced (not confirmed).

## Covered in

- Theme: [Chips, equipment and servers](/research/themes/chips-equipment-servers)

## Sources

Primary means the publisher of the data or the filing; secondary means press or an aggregator.
- [Broadcom 8-K: residual value support for AI rack leases](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000119312526434271/d148323d8k.htm)Primary 2026-10-27
- [Broadcom quarterly report on Form 10-Q, quarter ended 2026-08-02](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000173016826000080/avgo-20260802.htm)Primary 2026-09-10
- [Broadcom announces third quarter fiscal 2026 financial results](https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1730168/000173016826000076/avgo-08022026x8kxex99.htm)Primary 2026-09-02
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