The AI Infrastructure Stack
Overview  /  Tier IV Compute Hardware  /  Layer 08: Accelerators — GPUs & ASICs
Sub-category 8.3

ASIC Design Partners (the “Broadcom layer”)

The fabless design houses that co-design ASICs with hyperscalers. The fastest-growing slice of merchant semis.

Players

Players: Broadcom (Google TPU, Meta MTIA, OpenAI) AVGO, Marvell (AWS Trainium, Inferentia, Microsoft) MRVL, Alchip 3661.TW, Global Unichip (GUC) 3443.TW, MediaTek 2454.TW, Socionext 6526.T

Analysis coming soon — this page is scaffolding for deeper research into asic design partners (the “broadcom layer”).