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This Week's Bonus Story Why Broadcom's $100B AI Revenue Forecast May Be ConservativeSubmitted by Leo Miller. Published: 3/25/2026. 
Key Points - Broadcom’s latest earnings call reinforced expectations for sharply higher artificial intelligence chip revenue through 2027 and highlighted improving long-range visibility.
- Analysts pressed management on converting planned data center “gigawatts” into revenue, suggesting the company’s stated 2027 target may leave room for higher outcomes depending on customer mix.
- Broadcom said it has secured key supply-chain inputs through 2028, which management framed as support for multiyear demand and production plans.
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Within its latest earnings report on March 4, semiconductor giant Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO) delivered several positive surprises. The firm beat estimates on sales and adjusted earnings per share and provided significantly better-than-expected guidance for the next quarter. The company also reversed earlier guidance about gross-margin deterioration and added a sixth buyer to its custom artificial intelligence (AI) processor lineup. Additionally, the firm said its visibility into 2027 had “dramatically improved." CEO Hock Tan said, “We have line of sight to achieve AI revenue … in excess of $100 billion in 2027." For the next quarter Broadcom expects to generate $10.7 billion in AI revenue, which annualizes to a run rate of $42.8 billion. That means getting to more than $100 billion in 2027 would require substantial, continued growth in Broadcom's AI business. 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GWs describe the size of data-center deployments by indicating the power capacity a facility requires. Using publicly available information and some estimation, Rasgon tallied the GW commitments Broadcom had secured for 2027. “I'm trying to just count up the gigawatts … you have 3 from Anthropic, 1 from OpenAI, so that's 4. You said Meta was multiple, so at least 2. That gets me to 6. Google, I figure, should be bigger than Meta, so like at least 3, that's 9 and then you got a few others.” From this, Rasgon's estimate appears to be roughly 9 GW to 10 GW for 2027. Rasgon then attempted to translate GWs into AI revenue by estimating how much sales Broadcom generates per GW. “I had thought that your content per gigawatt was sort of, call it, in a $20 billion per gigawatt range.” Bank of America analyst Vivek Arya added a supporting data point, noting that Broadcom's 2026 1 GW deployment with Anthropic would bring in about $20 billion. If those estimates hold, Broadcom's 2027 AI revenue would be well above $100 billion. At 9 GW to 10 GW and $20 billion per GW, revenue would range from $180 billion to $200 billion in 2027. Tan's response pushes back on this math to some degree, but it also suggests the $100 billion figure could be conservative. Tan Provides Support and Pushback on Rasgon’s Estimates Tan confirmed Rasgon's GW estimate, saying, “If you look at it by gigawatt in '27, we are seeing it getting close to 10 gigawatts.” He added a caution: “You have to realize—depending on our LLM customer … the dollars per gigawatt vary, sometimes quite dramatically … but you're right, it's not far from the dollars you're talking about.” Tan did not strongly reject Rasgon's $20 billion-per-GW figure and characterized it as “not far off.” That makes $20 billion a reasonable baseline for revenue per GW, while acknowledging that dollars per GW can vary significantly by customer. Even halving that estimate to $10 billion per GW at 10 GW would equal $100 billion in revenue. So, based on the call, it's plausible that $10 billion per GW could itself be conservative. Splitting the difference at $15 billion per GW would imply about $150 billion in 2027 AI revenue—still materially above Broadcom's stated $100 billion target. Supply Chain Agreements: Another Vote of Confidence for AVGO’s Outlook This analysis depends on several assumptions, including that Broadcom's customers will not scale back their planned GW deployments over the next 18 months. That is a risk—and one Broadcom may be accounting for by setting a conservative public target. The company's supply-chain actions, however, add credibility to its outlook. Broadcom said it has secured supplies of leading-edge wafers, high-bandwidth memory, substrates, and T-glass through 2028—components that are in short supply amid a rapid data-center buildout. Locking in capacity beyond 2027 suggests Broadcom is confident in demand through that period. If the company were uncertain about 2027, it would be less likely to secure supplies for the following year. Melius analyst Ben Reitzes noted that Broadcom was likely the first company to secure these components through 2028, implying an unusually high degree of visibility. Overall, there are reasons to believe Broadcom could significantly outperform its 2027 AI sales forecast, a development that could drive upside in the stock. |
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