Broadcom Aims To Shape AI Data Centers With Open OCI Standard

Broadcom Aims To Shape AI Data Centers With Open OCI Standard

By Simply Wall St
Publication Date: 2026-03-13 01:09:00

Find winning stocks in any market cycle. Join 7 million investors using Simply Wall St’s investing ideas for FREE.

  • 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…