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Publication Date: 2026-03-13 01:09:00
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Broadcom (NasdaqGS:AVGO) is helping lead a new open Optical Compute Interconnect (OCI) standard for AI data centers alongside AMD, Meta, Microsoft, Nvidia, and OpenAI.
The company is expanding its end to end AI data center ecosystem through optical and liquid cooling partnerships, including work with JetCool and Flex.
Broadcom is using its own co packaged optics and connectivity hardware to support OCI, aiming to move AI infrastructure toward multi supplier, interoperable clusters.
Broadcom, trading at about $336.04 per share, is positioned at the center of several key technology supply chains for AI data centers. The stock has seen a very large 3 year return and a 1 year gain of 77.2%, even as year to date performance shows a 3.3% decline and a 30 day return of a 1.3% decline. Those mixed shorter term moves frame this OCI news as part of a longer arc in…
