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AI chip financing surges as Broadcom backs $60B Anthropic deal

By Drooid · Oct 13, 2026, 2:16 PM UTC · How we work

Summary

Broadcom Funds AI

Broadcom is syndicating a $60 billion financing package for Anthropic, including $42 billion of senior loans it guarantees.
Broadcom is in early talks to arrange over $50 billion of debt for OpenAI’s custom-chip purchases.
Combined with a $35 billion Apollo-Blackstone deal, Broadcom’s AI financing commitments now top $145 billion.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warned capital availability, not chip supply, is the sector’s biggest constraint.
Broadcom’s AI semiconductor revenue reached $16.7 billion in Q3 FY2026, tripling year-over-year.

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AI Chip Shares Slide

China’s top memory chip maker announced advances, sparking sharp AI chip stock falls.
SK Hynix and Samsung fell 10.1% and 7.4% respectively, pulling Kospi down over 5.4%.
Japan’s Kioxia fell nearly 13.3% while Taiwan’s TSMC slipped about 2%.
Forbes reported Masayoshi Son’s net worth dropped $5.5 billion to $64.3 billion; Jay Y. Lee’s fell $2.8 billion to $29.4 billion.
Broadcom CEO Hock Tan warned AI investors they act like gamblers.

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CXMT Expands Memory

CXMT captured 10% of global DRAM revenue in Q2 2026, up from 4% a year earlier.
CXMT announced it will start LPDDR6 production this year, expanding its memory-technology portfolio.
CXMT is preparing to enter the NAND flash market, directly challenging Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron.
Analysts say CXMT’s rise creates structural risk for AI-related memory supply chains feeding Nvidia GPUs.

History

Historical Context

In September 2012 AlexNet, built by Alex Krizhevsky with Ilya Sutskever and Geoffrey Hinton, cut the ImageNet top-5 error to 15.3%, a 10.8-point gain over the runner-up. The breakthrough relied on the large 1.2-million-image ImageNet dataset created by Fei-Fei Li and on training with two Nvidia GTX-580 GPUs. Its success convinced the tech industry to pour capital into AI-focused hardware, launching the semiconductor financing surge.

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Broadcom Funds AI

Broadcom is syndicating a $60 billion financing package for Anthropic, including $42 billion of senior loans it guarantees.
Broadcom is in early talks to arrange over $50 billion of debt for OpenAI’s custom-chip purchases.
Combined with a $35 billion Apollo-Blackstone deal, Broadcom’s AI financing commitments now top $145 billion.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan warned capital availability, not chip supply, is the sector’s biggest constraint.
Broadcom’s AI semiconductor revenue reached $16.7 billion in Q3 FY2026, tripling year-over-year.

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