What Happened
Broadcom (AVGO) shares climbed more than 3% in early trading after the company announced two major AI-related agreements tied to Google and Anthropic.
The stock outperformed a weaker broader market, which was under pressure from renewed geopolitical tension after the latest threats from President Trump toward Iran.
The bigger takeaway for investors was simple: Broadcom gave the market clearer visibility into how deeply it remains embedded in the next phase of AI infrastructure buildout.
Google Locked In Future TPU and Networking Supply
According to Broadcom’s filing, the company entered into a long-term agreement to develop and supply future Tensor Processing Units, or TPUs, for Google.
Broadcom also signed a separate supply assurance agreement under which Google will use Broadcom’s networking components in its next-generation AI server racks through 2031.
The companies did not disclose financial terms, but the structure of the deal matters on its own. It suggests Google is not just buying point products. It is committing to Broadcom across both custom silicon and AI networking infrastructure over a multi-year window.
Anthropic Added Another Demand Signal
Broadcom also said it is expanding its current agreement with Google and Anthropic, allowing Anthropic access to 3.5 gigawatts of Google’s next-generation TPUs.
That arrangement depends on Anthropic’s continued commercial success, but Broadcom’s announcement pointed to a business that is still scaling rapidly.
Anthropic said:
- its revenue run-rate has surpassed $30 billion
- that figure was up from $9 billion at the end of 2025
- the number of customers spending more than $1 million annually rose from 500 in February to 1,000 as of April 6
That growth matters because it reinforces the idea that demand for large-scale AI compute is still rising, especially among enterprise users building around Claude.
The Deal Also Helped Clear Up A Key Investor Concern
One of the biggest overhangs on Broadcom had been the possibility that Google might take more of its custom chip work in-house or shift more responsibility to other partners.
That is why analyst reaction focused less on the headline pop in the stock and more on what the agreements say about future positioning.
BofA Global Research analyst Vivek Arya said the updates improve visibility into Broadcom’s forward plans and help remove some prior overhang tied to fears that Google could lean more heavily on customer owned tooling or alternative manufacturers such as MediaTek.
That is important because customer owned tooling gives buyers more direct control over manufacturing, but can also reduce the role of companies like Broadcom if adoption moves too far in that direction.
Analysts See Better Visibility Into 2026 and 2027
Arya said Broadcom appears well positioned to gain accelerator share in calendar 2026 and 2027, rising from below 10% in 2025 toward roughly 15% or more.
He also pointed to the latest Google and Anthropic expansions as an added layer on top of Broadcom’s earlier OpenAI exposure.
Bernstein analyst Stacy Rasgon took a similar view, calling the Google agreement incremental but still useful because it helps ease fears around customer owned tooling and signals that both Broadcom and its largest customer appear to have strong demand visibility several years out.
Broadcom Is Still One Of The Clear AI Infrastructure Trades
Broadcom has already been one of the big winners of the AI boom, with the stock up about 110% over the last 12 months. Even so, the shares had pulled back more than 6% since the start of the year before Tuesday’s move.
That backdrop helps explain why the market reacted strongly. Investors are still willing to reward AI names when new agreements point to durable demand, especially when those deals stretch across both compute and networking.
WSA Take
This was more than just a positive headline for Broadcom. The new agreements with Google and Anthropic strengthen the case that Broadcom remains a core supplier in the custom AI chip and data center networking stack, even as hyperscalers look for more control over how their systems are built.
For investors, the key read-through is that Broadcom is not being pushed to the side as AI infrastructure evolves. If anything, these deals suggest the company is securing a deeper role across the hardware layer that ties large-scale AI deployments together.
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