Broadcom this week announced that it had signed an agreement to supply $10 billion worth of AI data center hardware to an undisclosed customer. The hardware includes custom-designed AI accelerators tailored for workloads specific to the client, as well as other gear from the company. It is widely rumored that the customer in OpenAI, which reportedly intends to use the AI processors for inference workloads, and the sheer scale of the order could amount to several million AI processors.
As always, Broadcom isn't tipping its hat on the mystery customer. "Last quarter, one of these prospects released production orders to Broadcom, and we have accordingly characterized them as a qualified customer for XPUs and, in fact, have secured over $10 billion of orders of AI racks based on our XPUs," said Hock Tan, President and CEO of Broadcom, during the company's earnings conference call.
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