Apple chip supplier Broadcom hits $1 trillion market valuation for first time
Hindustan TimesBroadcom Inc., a chip supplier for Apple Inc. hit a $1 trillion market valuation for the first time on Friday, after predicting a boom in demand for its artificial intelligence chips. Broadcom's stock rose 24 per cent to $224.80 in New York on Friday, its biggest one-day share-price rally since August 2009, when the precursor company Avago Technologies Ltd held its initial public offering. Broadcom, similar to Nvidia Corp., is making itself a major beneficiary of the AI spending frenzy, with the company's Chief Executive Officer Hock Tan saying that the firm won two major new hyperscaler customers, the biggest operators of data centers. The company has replacing Broadcom's components with that of its in-house versions, a trend that is also set to hit chipmaker Qualcomm Inc. Tan, however, said that Broadcom continued to be highly associated with Apple on multi-year road maps for various technologies, adding that the company remained open to acquisitions.