Broadcom's $10 billion-plus agreement with OpenAI is a cornerstone of its AI strategy. Unlike the vendor-financing deals with Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices ( ), or Oracle ( L) where equity stakes or investments grease the wheels, this is a cash-based supply contract. Broadcom will deliver 10 gigawatts of custom-designed AI accelerators - tailored for OpenAI's training and inference workloads - alongside Ethernet networking and full rack systems, starting in the second half of 2026 through 2029.
"Humanity is investing enormous resources in the race to advance Artificial Intelligence," said Oracle chairman and CTO Larry Ellison. "Clay's years of experience leading Oracle's large, fast-growing Cloud Infrastructure business has demonstrated his readiness for a CEO role." "Mike has spent the last several years modernizing Oracle's Industry applications businesses - including Oracle Health - by completely rebuilding those applications using the latest AI technologies."