Broadcom (NASDAQ:AVGO) released second-quarter financial results and hosted an earnings call on Wednesday. Read the complete transcript below.

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Summary

Broadcom Inc. reported a record Q2 2026 total revenue of $22.2 billion, up 48% year-on-year, driven by strong AI semiconductor performance.

AI semiconductor revenue reached $10.8 billion, up 143% year-on-year, with expectations to double in the second half of 2026 and exceed $100 billion in 2027.

The company announced strategic agreements with key customers like Google, Anthropic, OpenAI, and Matter to provide significant AI compute capacity.

Infrastructure software revenue was $7.2 billion, up 9% year-on-year, with a strong outlook for Q3 2026 at $8.9 billion.

Broadcom expects Q3 2026 consolidated revenue to grow to $29.4 billion, up 84% year-on-year, with stable operating margins.

Management highlighted a strategic focus on scaling AI compute capacity through the AI XPV platform in collaboration with major investors.

Broadcom's gross margin is impacted by a mix shift towards semiconductors, particularly AI, but operating margins remain strong.

The company reported a record free cash flow of $10.3 billion and maintained a strong balance sheet with $19.6 billion in cash.

Full Transcript

OPERATOR

Welcome to Broadcom Inc.'s second quarter fiscal year 2026 financial results conference call at this time for opening remarks and introductions. I would like to turn the call over to Ji Yu, Head of Investor Relations, Head of Investor Relations of Broadcom Inc.

Ji Yu, Head of Investor Relations

Thank you Operator and good afternoon everyone. Joining me on today's call are Hock Tan, President and CEO Charlie Kawaz, President, Semiconductor Solutions Group and Ram Valaga, President, Infrastructure Software Group. Also joining is Kirsten Spears, Chief Financial Officer as we announced Kirsten will be retiring June 12th and today we have joining us our incoming Chief Financial Officer, Amy Teener. Thank you Kirsten for your leadership over the past 12 years.

Broadcom distributed a press release and financial tables after the market closed describing our financial performance for the second quarter fiscal year 2026. If you did not receive a copy, you may obtain the information from the Investor section of Broadcom's website at broadcom.com this conference call is being webcast live and an audio replay of the call can be accessed for one year through the Investors section of Broadcom's website. During the prepared comments, Hock and Kirsten will be providing details of our second quarter fiscal year 2026 results, guidance for our third quarter fiscal year 2026 as well as commentary regarding the business

environment. We'll take questions after the end of our prepared comments. Please refer to our press release today and our recent filings with the SEC for information on risk factors that could cause our actual results to differ materially from the forward looking statements made on this call. In addition to U.S. GAAP reporting, Broadcom reports certain financial measures on a non-GAAP basis. A reconciliation between GAAP and non-GAAP measures to the extent possible is included in the tables attached to today's press release.

Comments made during today's call will primarily refer to our non-GAAP financial results. I will now turn the call over to hawk.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Thank you Ji thank you everyone for joining today. In our fiscal Q2 2026 total revenue reached a record $22.2 billion up 48% year on year above our guidance on strength In AI semiconductors Q2 operating margin was a record 67% and adjusted EBITDA was a record 69% of revenue which was above our guidance. Even as our revenue scales up massively driven by AI, our operating and EBITDA margins remain strong and stable. Turning to semiconductors Q2 revenue was a record 15 billion.

As I said before, as we grew 79% year on year. Driving this growth was AI semiconductor revenue at a record 10.8 billion, up 143% year on year and above our outlook networking represented almost 40% of our Q2AI revenue demand for XPUs and networking is simply insatiable. During the quarter, bookings for AI semiconductors were over $30 billion against the $10.8 billion we shipped in the second half of 2026. We expect AI semiconductor revenue to double from the first half we shipped last year from the ship this year.

Consistent with this trend in Q3 we expect AI semiconductor revenue to accelerate to $16 billion, up over 200% year on year. For the full year 2026, we expect to achieve AI semiconductor revenue of $56 billion, up approximately 180% from fiscal 2025. Now we expect this momentum to continue into fiscal year 2027 and reiterate our AI semiconductor revenue guidance to be in excess of $100 billion. We expect AI semiconductor revenue growth to continue in fiscal 2028 based on the following initiatives with our six core customers as you are aware with Google, we announced in April that we entered into a long term agreement to develop and supply multiple

generations of TPUs and AI networking. Our relationship continues to be strategic and very substantial as we continue to deliver vastly superior technology and execution compared to other alternatives. This ability to provide differentiated value to Google ensures that our business will sustain and grow for the foreseeable future. For Anthropic as you know, for 2026 we are providing access to Broadcom TPU based compute of over 1 gigawatts. In April we entered into an agreement to enable Anthropic to access another 5 GW of next generation TPU based compute beginning in 2027.

For OpenAI, we have delivered silicon and we are on track for production late 2026. We have a contractual commitment to deploy 1.3 gigawatts in 2027 as part of the larger 10 gigawatts that by 2029 agreement we announced last year. For Meta, in April we announced a partnership to deliver multiple generations of MTIA XPUs and under this agreement we expect to deploy 3 gigawatts through the end of 2028. The initial order for 1 gigawatt, which includes XPUs and our networking, has been received and will start delivery in the second half of 2027.

For our other two customers, we expect shipments to begin late 2026 and accelerate into 2027. To date we have received purchase orders totaling $6 billion. While we have significant IP and execution leadership in XPUs networking is key to building scalable XPU and GPU clusters and here in networking we have at least one generation of technology and product leadership for scale up within racks. We enable direct attached copper based on our industry leading 200g and 400g Serdes Driving Co packaged copper with ethernet and PC Express switches for scale out between racks.

We have been shipping the industry's only 100 terabyte ethernet switch, the Tomahawk 6 for over a year. We will now be taping out our next generation 200 terabyte switch this quarter. And in CPOs which is CO Package Optics, 1.6 terabit DSPs, CW and EML lasers, we are the de facto standard in the industry to extend AI clusters across data centers. We remain the industry leader with our Jericho3 and Jericho4 fabric solutions enabling the world's largest deployments at multiple hyperscalers.

Our strategic vision is to bring together Broadcom's leading technology and investor partners with the strongest balance sheets to deliver at scale sufficient compute capacity at the lowest cost and power for the leading AI frontier labs including Anthropic and OpenAI. To deliver this vision, we are creating the AI XPV platform with Apollo and Blackstone and other leading investors to deploy more than 20 gigawatts of compute capacity through 2028.

The first tranche of this platform, valued at $35 billion is in fact currently being launched by Apollo. Now turning to non AI semiconductors, Q2 revenue of $4.2 billion was up 6% year on year. Bookings during the same period exceeded 6 billion, which is a clear indication we are on the path towards a full cyclical recovery. Broadband server storage and enterprise networking together were up partially offset by seasonal decline in wireless. Consistent with this trend in Q3 we forecast non AI semiconductor revenue to be approximately $4.5 billion, up 12% from a year ago.

In summary, we expect Q3 semiconductor revenue

to be 20.5 billion, up 124% year on year. Let me turn to the infrastructure software segment Q2 software revenue of 7.2 billion was up 9% year on year. In line with our guidance, bookings continue to be strong as we sustain ARR growth of 6.17percent year over year. For Q3 we forecast software revenue to be approximately 8.9 billion, up 31% year on year. We just released VMware Cloud Foundation 9.1 focused on improving infrastructure efficiency, security and support for enterprise AI inferencing workloads with strong server demand globally.

The deployment of VCF 9.1 for on Prem cloud computing is extremely strong, driving robust revenue growth. This release adds heterogeneous compute support across GPUs and CPU architectures, including AMD, intel and Nvidia platforms, enabling customers enterprise cloud customers to run AI kubernetes and traditional virtualized workloads on a common private cloud environment. So to sum IT up for Q3 2026 we expect our consolidated revenue to grow to 29.4 billion, up 84% year on year.

We expect operating margin to be stable at approximately 67% of revenue and adjusted EBITDA to be at approximately 68% of revenue. And with that let me turn the call over to Kirsten.

Kirsten Spears, CFO of Broadcom

Thank you Hock. Let me now provide additional detail on our Q2 financial performance. Consolidated revenue was a record $22.2 billion for the quarter, up 48% from a year ago. Gross margin was 77.1% of revenue in the quarter, down 230 basis points year on year as semiconductors became a larger proportion of our product mix. Consolidated operating expenses were 2.2 billion, of which 1.6 billion was R&D. Q2 operating income was a record 14.9 billion, up 52% from a year ago.

Note that even with the decline in gross margin, operating margin increased 200 basis points year over year to 67.3% as operating expenses remained relatively flat. Adjusted EBITDA of $15.2 billion or 69% of revenue was above our guidance of 68%. Now a review of the P and L for our two segments starting with semiconductorss. Revenue for our semiconductors solutions segment was a record $15 billion with growth accelerating to 79% year on year driven by AI.

Semiconductor revenue represented 68% of total revenue in the quarter and AI semiconductors revenue represented 49% of total revenue. Gross margin for our semiconductors solutions segment was approximately 70%. Operating expenses of 1.2 billion reflected increased investment in R and D for Leading Edge AI semiconductors and represented 8% of revenue. Semiconductor operating margin of 62% was up 460 basis points year on year, reflecting our strong operating leverage.

Now moving on to infrastructure software. Revenue for infrastructure software of 7.2 billion was up 9% year on year and represented 32% of revenue. Gross margin for infrastructure software was 93% in the quarter and operating expenses were 1 billion in the quarter. Q2 software operating margin was up 310 basis points year on year to approximately 79%. Moving on to cash flow. Free cash flow in the quarter was a record 10.3 billion and represented 46% of revenue.

We spent 231 million on capital expenditures. We ended the second quarter with 19.6 billion of cash, compared to 14.2 billion in the prior quarter. We ended the second quarter with inventory of 4.33 billion. As we continued to secure supply to support strong AI demand, our days of inventory on hand were 86 days in Q2 compared to 68 days in Q1. In anticipation of accelerating AI semiconductors growth in the second half of the year. Turning to capital allocation, in Q2, we paid stockholders $3.1 billion of cash dividends based on a quarterly common stock cash dividend of $0.65 per share.

Now moving to guidance. Our guidance for Q3 is for consolidated revenue of 29.4 billion, up 84% year on year. We forecast semiconductors revenue of approximately 20.5 billion, up 124% year on year. Within this, we expect Q3 AI semiconductors revenue of 16 billion, up over 200% year on year, we expect Q3 infrastructure software revenue of approximately 8.9 billion, up 31% year on year. Moving on to margins. As the proportion of AI revenue significantly grows in Q3, we expect Q3 consolidated gross margin to be down to approximately 74%.

This decline in gross margin does not represent a structural change in semiconductors margin. Rather, it reflects product mix between semiconductorss and infrastructure software. Regardless of the impact to gross margin, we expect Q3 operating margin to be 67%, which is flat quarter on quarter, demonstrating our strong operating leverage. We highly recommend that investors model semiconductors and infrastructure software margins separately to properly reflect the impact of changes in total revenue mix going forward, we expect the non GAAP tax rate for Q3 and fiscal year 2026 to be approximately 16%.

Due to the impact of the global minimum tax and the geographic mix of income compared to that of fiscal year 25. In Q3, we expect the non GAAP diluted share count to be approximately 4.94 billion shares,, excluding the impact of potential share repurchases. That concludes my prepared remarks. Operator, please open up the call for questions.

OPERATOR

Thank you. To ask a question, you will need to press Star 11 on your telephone. To withdraw your question, press Star 11 again. Due to time restraints, we ask that you please limit yourself to one question. Please stand by while we compile the Q and A roster. Roster. And our first question will come from the line of Harlan sir with JP Morgan. Your line is open.

Harlan Sir (Equity Analyst)

Yeah. Good afternoon. Thank you for taking my question. Thanks for all your support. Kirsten and Ami, welcome to the team. First, just a Housekeeping Quick Housekeeping item Hock on this fiscal year AI sort of 2x growth second half over first half, that would put AI revenues over 60 billion with sequential growth in fiscal Q4. But you gave us this $56 billion number which is only like 1 1/2x half over half growth with 4Q AI actually being down sequentially.

So if you could just help us kind of square the numbers there. And then for my real question, back in December of last year you Talked about an AI backlog next 18 months, $73 billion market sort of took that number, spread that linearly over six quarters. But we know that the backlog is always more front loaded over the first four quarters, right? And sure enough, you're going to deliver around 80% or more of that backlog in this fiscal year or first four quarters.

Just given the strength of all your programs, the broadening of the customer base, accelerating year over year trends in your AI shipments, all the multi gigawatt partnerships that you just articulated today, which is most of it, which is set to start to fire next year, is it fair to assume that your 18 month AI backlog second half of this year, through first half, through all of fiscal 27 sits at $200 billion or better?

Hock Tan, President and CEO

That's a very complicated set of number questions to begin with. Let's start with 26. Doing a math. Basically 2x to 2x the first half we ship about in total AI revenue, something in the range of 19 billion, you want to be precise. And if you do what I indicate and 2x that in the second half you get pretty much in the range of what we're talking about, which is around 56 billion. Harlan. So that set of numbers is still very, very does tie up very well.

Now your picket question on the second half, which you're going to need to very detailed analysis of, is yeah, we keep the momentum going as we expect to see in 2027. What we will see in 2027 is continued growth of the level we're talking about. And if you drive on that basis of what we're seeing here, almost 2x what 2027 in the range of 2x what 2026 will be, I think you will easily see that 2027 will exceed very easily $100 billion in 2027, which is pretty much what we indicated last quarter.

And we are continuing to say that it will be over 100 billion in 2027. So in that sense, if anything else, it might be based on what we're doing, very much on track, if not stronger. But we're not trying to guide you Every quarter what 27 would be like so we basically say it continues to be in excess of 100 billion in 27, but it is on the same trajectory as we are seeing in the back half of the of 26.

OPERATOR

Got it. Okay, thank you, Hawk. One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Blaine Curtis with Jeffries. Your line is open.

Blaine Curtis

Hey, good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question, Hawk. I wanted to ask you inter quarter you had that 8k with the long term agreement with Google. I think obviously you're probably not going to tell me what the total value is there, but I think there's a lot of concern about share within that customer. I was just kind of curious, now that you have this agreement, maybe you could speak to a little bit more in terms of your confidence and if there's upside to that customer, is it a fixed amount or is there shares?

Is there any way you can kind of add some color to that agreement that came out? Well, you know, it's a very, very strong agreement and it basically reflects the strength of the partnership we have simply because of the products we do, the multi general products and the intellectual property we deploy into this whole program. To answer your question specifically, it's a commitment that is very substantial in dollars. Very, very substantial amount of dollars.

Now we also accept the fact that while we like to win every design in that program, we also accept the fact that given the growth of consumption and development and consumption of AI compute, even by our partner Google, that we fully expect that there will be some diversity of sources for them. But our commitment from them is a very substantial dollar amount. Thank you.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Ross Seymour with Deutsche Bank. Your line is open.

Ross Seymour (Equity Analyst)

Hi, thanks for the asked question and congrats to both Kirsten and Amy question on the gross margin side of things. I know Kirsten, you talked about it going down due to the mix dynamics within the semis versus the software side. But given the strength on the software side in the quarter, it seems like gross margin is falling a little bit harder. So behind the scenes, can you just talk a little bit about what the drivers within semis are?

Is that the XPU versus the networking side of things and is that trend likely to continue next year? Are there rack scale versus chip scale, all those sorts of dynamics? Any color you could give on that would be helpful.

Kirsten Spears, CFO of Broadcom

Yes, certainly. As our semiconductor business grows, just to reiterate on a consolidated basis relative to our software business, you're going to have a decline in margins, right? A bit. You'll have compression, but remember that it's accretive because we have strong operating leverage. Right. So our operating margins will stand up a bit over time to that.

Within semiconductors, we've always said our ASICs, the TPUs, some of the wireless business has lower margins. So as the TPUs continue to accelerate, there'll be pressure overall on margins. But the connectivity side, the AI networking side of the business has very rich margins. So it'll offset it somewhat as we go.

Ross Seymour (Equity Analyst)

I mean Ross, as Kirsten said in her remarks, structurally the semiconductor margins remains very stable and very solid. It's the mix, particularly the mix between software and non AI to the very, very rapidly growing AI semiconductor that is just diluting gross margin in the rack versus chip side of things. Is that all clarified now? No racks. It's all chips. We're only chip business only we only chips. Only chips. Perfect. Thank you.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Ben Reitzis with Melius. Your line is open.

Ben Reitzis (Equity Analyst)

Yeah. Hey guys. Thanks, appreciate it. I wanted to ask about 2027 Hock. With regard to. Previously we talked about the TAM being 10 to. Well, it's kind of a longer term question actually. You've talked about the TAM being 10 to 20 and what not. It seems that one of your competitors talked recently about the TAM per GW going up a lot as we go throughout the decade. And it seems it wasn't just due to infrastructure, it was due to the compute and networking components and other things.

Perhaps you're familiar with the comment that Jensen made where the overall infrastructure is going from something around 50 something towards 100 and the compute content going way up. Are you seeing the same thing as you go throughout the long term? Is that potentially being an accelerator, what you've already outlined in terms of your TAM per gigawatt and how are you thinking about that? Thanks a lot.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Sure. Well, I think the accelerating part, if you talk about power, realize one thing is the dollars per gigawatt, the content. Dollars of racks per gigawatt is not accelerating that much because you are creating chips that have each. Individual chips are driving higher and higher power, so you're driving less chips though the ASP of each chip or each chip is going up in price. So dollars per gigawatt, billions of dollars per gigawatt is relatively stable.

But the number of gigawatts will accelerate, as I think some of our remarks indicate. And that's what we are seeing. That amount of gigawatts required compute capacity as measured by number of gigawatts is growing very fast and we're seeing that. And we are seeing that particularly to the point where for even 2 of our customers we're talking about which is anthropic and OpenAI for which we are creating this platform to enable them to run sufficient compute power.

We're talking about capacity as measured by gigawatt power that are way ahead of what we have expected say six months ago. And that's just these guys. We're not talking about the consumption beyond the XPU platform we have announced here from our other customers, which is Google owned internal workloads matters workloads and any other customer and the other two customers we have. So fold that in and you're talking about gigawatts in totality. If you ask about 27 or 28 that will continue to grow.

We expect in fact 28 to be a substantial growth from what we are forecasting in 2017.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Timothy R. Keary with ubs. Your line is open.

Timothy R. Keary (Equity Analyst)

Thanks a lot. Hock. I wanted to ask you about supply and kind of your ability to get incremental volume of wafers and hbm. As I look at some of your competitors, they're kind of able to drop $20 billion out of thin air and get incremental wafer supply. So I'm wondering, do you feel pretty good about if a customer comes to you, are you able to get upside in terms of wafers and hbm? And are you beginning to consider maybe using other foundries to add more optionality to your supply?

Thanks a lot.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Getting supply is not just about dropping money, Tim, though that does work. No, we are very comfortable that we have been able to secure supply of the types you mentioned about for needs. 26, 27. Working on 28 and 29 right now. Right. But if a customer comes to you and wants incremental supply, are you able to go to your suppliers and get it the way that it seems like some of your competitors are?

Customers have been coming to us incrementally over the last few months. Expect that to continue and by and large, yes.

Timothy R. Keary (Equity Analyst)

Okay, Hawk, thank you.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Stacy Raskon with Bernstein Research. Your line is open.

Stacy Raskon (Equity Analyst)

Hi guys, thanks for taking my question. Haak, you gave some gigawatt shipment targets for next year for your various customers.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

I just want to know are those any different? Do they contemplate any change from what you said last quarter where I think you Said that was close to 10 gigawatts you'd be shipping in 27. And can you just sort of help us shape the year? It sounded to me like you expected that to be more back half loaded in 27 given the shape of the ramps. But most importantly, is there any change that is it more gigawatts or less gigawatts or the same gigawatts versus what you were suggesting last quarter?

Well, good question. Yeah. 427. We indicated about 10 gigawatts shipment in 27. That's still very much intact. They will be shipping 10. We're planning to ship 10 gigawatts in 27 and that nothing has changed back half loaded to that extent. Yes. Which really provides an interesting trajectory into 28 with this back half trajectory. So 28, we expect a lot more gigawatts.

Stacy Raskon (Equity Analyst)

Got it. That's helpful. Thank you.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Jim Schneider with Goldman Sachs. Your line is open.

Jim Schneider (Equity Analyst)

Good afternoon. Thanks for taking my question. I was wondering if you could comment a little bit on the profile of your networking business. Hock. As we head through fiscal 26 and 27, about 40% of AI revenue this quarter, will you expect that to sort of fall back down as some of these custom ramps ramp into the end of the year, into early next year? Or would you sort of expect to stay at the upper end of that range and maybe talk about when you see some of the optical and Co-Packaged Optics (CPO) revenue becoming meaningful?

Thank you. That's a hell of a great question, Jim. It's just very difficult to answer because of how do we predict that? There are quite a few moving parts there. One of which is to start with is as more as a volume as more and more of our customers turn to xpus. Obviously xpus uses very much a lot of our networking components across the board. So that's great for us and that drives increase in consumption. But it also means that we have been able to sell networking to non XPU footprints so that part of it would dilute the growth rate.

And this 40% I consider as a very well, almost a situation where stars are aligned, where we are shipping a lot of networking to non xpu while the growth of XPU are obviously allowing us to grow this networking business to our XPUs and we get to 40%. But I see that as probably as high as that percentage of total AI revenue would go. Not the first time I indicated that the more expected percentage as a share of total AI revenue for networking would be closer to around 30, 30%.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question that will come from the line of Tom o' Malley with Barclays. Your line is open.

Tom o' Malley

Hey Hawk, thanks for taking the question. So I noticed with the most recent deal with Anthropic that you guys are using Broadcom chips as a backstop for the deal. Do you expect more deals to come like this in the future? And then as you start to see the AI environment, is there any way you're thinking about financing in the future? You're going to continue to do it with chips or anything that you can offer on that? Thank you. Can you repeat that question, especially at the front end?

I didn't quite get what you're saying here. I don't want to answer the wrong way.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Essentially most recent deal with Anthropic is being backstopped by Broadcom chips. Do you think that in the future you will see more deals done this way? And then any comments on the future financing of deals with the large AI models? Thank you. Oh, I have to correct you on that. I would deal with Anthropic and that we basically talk about and basically release disclosing our 8K recently. The deal we did with Anthropic is we use our TPU chips that we developed to provide the compute capacity to Anthropic.

We want that it wasn't backstop in that sense. We were the ones providing the chips to Anthropic. We were the ones providing the compute capacity.

OPERATOR

Thank you. One moment for our next question. That will come from the line of CJ Muse with Cancer Fitzgerald. Your line is open.

CJ Muse

Yeah, good afternoon. Thanks for taking the question. I guess, Hawk, you know, in recent years you've talked about really focusing your efforts on very large XPU platforms. And I'm just curious. We're seeing many kind of XPU attached derivatives across Interconnect storage other. And I'm wondering if there's any sort of programs there that are more niche

that are whetting your appetite.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Well, I don't think so. I think our business model is actually very, very straightforward, which is we are developing xpus custom AI accelerators for use by our customers who are pretty much all LLM developers. Whether it's for training or inference. We are also creating a portfolio of critical components to enable these XPUs and even GPUs to be clustered and for better performance.

And that continues to be the model we do, which is we provide chips technology in the form of chips, whether they be AI compute accelerators. We call XPUS or networking chips that cluster them together, be it switches, PCI Express connectors, DSPs, lasers, NICs and routers. And that's very much still the model we employ in semiconductors.

And we still, as you can see, our financial model and the program we go for drive towards a chip business model through the technologies we provide.

What we are doing to enable some of these LLM players to be able to get access to the volume of compute capacity, the large gigawatt of compute capacity they need to scale up their models is we are, as I announced here today, creating in partnership with guys with the best balance sheets around vehicle to basically have these chips funded for these LLM players who otherwise might have difficulty getting access to our technology which provides them with the lowest power and the lowest cost.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question that will come from the line of Ateef Malik. Which city? Your line is open.

Ateef Malik

Hi, thank you for taking my question. I have a question on infrastructure software business. Are you guys seeing any impact of AI agentic AI on your software growth and renewals? And if you can just talk about

some sort of long term growth for that business.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Well, we're not seeing it. If anything else, as I reported, the high volume of core count of CPUs selling together with GPUs is driving some accelerated growth of our VMware business. And as you can see in Q3, we're seeing an accelerated growth and we expect that to continue I guess for the next multiple quarters as this demand picks up long term given the kind of products we do in infrastructure software.

Very, very close to literally the hardware, basically the hypervisor which is where our products are. We do not expect to see any impact on software products.

OPERATOR

And one moment for our next question that will come from the line of Edward Snyder with Charter Equity Research. Your line is open.

Edward Snyder

Thanks a lot. This is very interesting because the gigawatts that you've laid out for the different customers makes it very clear that the two that are offering kind of CSP, I'm gonna say CFC but consumer versions

of AI anthropics and OpenAI have very large gigawatt commitments in the out years. I know part of that's catch up because they've just started late where your oldest customer's been doing this for quite some time. But even part of Google's is offering cloud services to other folks too. So are we seeing shift here? I know that initially a lot of the XPUs and the AI services were through the hyperscalers for their own customer workloads. We've talked about that ad nauseam.

And now you're seeing AI finally hit the enterprises and you've seen cloud take off with programming which is sweeping everybody. Can we expect then that there's going to be this big second wave of demand that's driven as AI starts hitting enterprises and consumers start getting access to it or finding usable tools? Because the numbers you're saying here are significantly different for the two classes of customers. Well, that's a very interesting thought here and you may be very well right that enterprise consuming AI is still relatively at an early stage of the game.

But having said that, what we also seeing is a lot of what the enterprise is consuming on tokens. They are buying a lot of these tokens from the platforms. The product API they pull from the platforms of this same name of customers we talked about, which is anthropic OpenAI, Gemini. These are the large guys they are pulling it from. And that's where I think high, substantially most of these tokens consumption are tied to those LLMs. And these LLM guys as they productize their frontier models, whether it be Opus 4.7, ChatGPT 5.5 or Gemini 3.5 comes back to the same end demand on compute capacity we provide to all these guys.

And so even a growth of enterprise demand that we're now starting to see as enterprise starts to consume AI AI tokens for their own workloads, for their own productivity users as consumers do, they're buying from the same source, these same few guys. And that's what's driving this very large, I call it insatiable growth in compute capacity that we are experiencing. And we see that continuing to happen now through 2027 and what we're seeing now through 2028 as well.

So this is getting to be quite a sustainable and steepening trajectory of demand. So if I could, doesn't this change the dynamic? What we talked about before? You talked about seven or so customers for your XPUs, but this is actually happening. You've already seen Google offering cloud services for TPUs. It opens up XPU access to all those smaller companies that don't kind of

meet the criteria for doing their own asics that you couldn't partner with to Broadcom's technology through these platforms. Why would that not be the case?

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Well, I guess the answer to that is it's possible. But the reality of the whole issue is the compute capacity. Most of AI generated are provided in the form of SAS models. APIs are pulled from the clouds, whether they're from bedrock Vertex, Azure or first party, it is still provided in the cloud.

So most of all that demand at the end of the day in terms of compute capacity, which is what we're doing, comes from those few large frontier model developers and, and the products they generate to supply to consumer and enterprises globally. Source of demand comes from those frontier model labs who are developing the products which consumer enterprises like you and us and our companies are consuming.

And what we're doing is providing that capacity to that demand source as opposed to going to a company or bank and trying to provide them XPUs and then they having to try to build it, create a software stack to then write applications and run it themselves. I'm sure there are a few enterprises doing now, but there are not many. It's early stage in that whole game.

Right now most of the demand are coming from the frontier model players who are creating products, things as I said, like code assistance, like you know, engineering verticals, which are really coming from the same source of guys who are doing all this. Those few guys doing the frontier models. It's not really coming from 100,000 companies directly trying to buy XPUs or for that matter GPUs. It's not.

OPERATOR

One moment for our next question. And that will come from the line of Joe Moore with Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Great, thank you.

Joe Moore

You talked about 30 billion of AI bookings in the quarter, which is a lot I guess, relative to this quarter and next quarter shipments. Can you talk about the dynamic? Why is there so much backlog now? Or is there you sort of said you can react to upside with supply. Just why so many bookings this quarter relative to revenue? Well, this, that's a huge demand of compute. See a lot of large.

This few six customers now they realize that lead time to get compute you need lead time, you need to be thoughtful. And it's not just asking for wafers to get the chips or memory to ensure that HBMs are available or DRAMs available. They're also talking about, hey, I got to have the power, the power shell.

So all this is planning ahead and what we are seeing, the bookings that are coming, it's not for immediate delivery, some hope to have, but the reality they all accept is they need to align quite a few other things in place before they can deliver. But they are placing their orders early and they're placing their orders now.

And they are placing orders in fairly huge demand, which basically gives us a lot more visibility than we normally otherwise would have in semiconductors. Our visibility runs all the way to 2028 right now, three months ago, I can tell you visibility run pretty much 27. Today it runs to 28.

And that's a big part of the reason why we are creating this XPV platform as really the platform to plan to build up this put in place such capacity for those frontier model customers of ours who are seeing as you guys are seeing in some of the financials they are telling you and in the experiences you have, which is driving huge amount of consumption of tokens from those compute capacity we are giving them.

We have the benefit now of a lot of lead time and we're planning that it's not because of shortage of our components. There's also the other elements that need to be put in place which particularly relates to power and connection into an infrastructure globally or through America. At least that enables inference to be distributed through to consumers and enterprises throughout the country. So we're just getting a lot of lead time.

Very helpful, thank you.

Thank you. We do have time for one final question and that will come from the line of Joshua Buchhalter with TD Cowan. Your line is open.

OPERATOR

Hey guys, thank you for taking my question.

Joshua Buchhalter (Equity Analyst)

In the past you've talked about sort of 15, 20 billion dollars per gigawatt of compute and given the 10 that you implicit implied is what you'll be doing next year, it implies a much larger number than 100 billion. You know, you've also mentioned that the value per gigawatt does vary per project. So I guess how should we think about the evolution of your revenue per gigawatt over time? As I would expect on one hand den to done pricing to increase on programs you're already shipping.

But also there are other projects that are entering the model. Thank you.

Hock Tan, President and CEO

Our revenue, our content per gigawatt will increase. Put it simply, our content from the fact that our compute chip XPU will go up in price very dramatically. Particularly when you not only put SRAMs into it sparse cost, you start putting a lot, you start putting embedding CPU cores into the same XPUs and making those chips basically multi die with lots of hvm. So the trajectory of content increase will go up.

It just doesn't go up every month, every six months or every quarter. But it will follow one generation to the next that the content will grow per gigawatt. Thank you.

OPERATOR

Thank you. I would now like to turn the call over to gu, head of investor relations for closing remarks.

Ji Yu, Head of Investor Relations

Thank you, operator. Broadcom currently plans to report its earnings for the third quarter of fiscal year 2026 after close of market on Wednesday, September 2, 2026. A public webcast of Broadcom's earnings conference call will follow at 2pM Pacific time. That will conclude our earnings call today. Thank you all for joining. Cherie, you may end the call.

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