The Next Phase of the AI Boom Could Be Even Kinder to the Pick-and-Shovel Plays – AOL

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• NVIDIA (NVDA) generated $215.94B in full-year FY2026 revenue with $96.58B in free cash flow, while Broadcom (AVGO) reported Q1 AI semiconductor revenue of $8.4B up 106% year-over-year and guided Q2 to $10.7B, and Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing (TSM) posted Q1 revenue of $35.90B up 35% with high-performance computing now 61% of wafer revenue and 72% foundry market share.

• Hyperscaler capital expenditure climbing above $700B annually is spreading AI infrastructure spending beyond training chips across foundries, custom silicon, networking fabric, and enterprise deployment tools where Broadcom and TSMC are capturing accelerating share.

• The analyst who called NVIDIA in 2010 just named his top 10 stocks and Broadcom wasn’t one of them. Get them here FREE.

The first wave of the AI boom rewarded the most obvious names. The next wave spreads wealth across the entire infrastructure stack: foundries, custom silicon, networking fabric, and enterprise deployment tools. Hyperscaler…