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Broadcom, together with Wall Street financial institutions, finalized a US$63 billion financing to purchase and lease chips for Anthropic through an SPV, further increasing the scale of AI infrastructure-related debt.
chip manufacturerbroadcom (Broadcom) has finalized a $63 billion financing deal with Bank of America, Blackstone, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley to provide AI model developers.anthropic Provides funds to purchase wafers.
According to a joint statement released on Monday, the transaction will be conducted through a newly established special purpose vehicle (SPV), and the above-mentioned financial institutions will provide financing to purchase Broadcom chips and lease them to Anthropic. Broadcom will provide risk protection for part of the financing through so-called “residual value support” (or residual value guarantee).
Bloomberg reported earlier this month that Broadcom andwall Street A financing alliance made up of financial institutions including banks such as Bank of America, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley has begun raising about US$60 billion in new funds to support the purchase of AI chips by Anthropic and other companies.
The financing, which took several weeks to take shape, has been closely watched by Wall Street and Silicon Valley industry insiders. With data centers on the rise and concerns about future demand, the market is looking to confirm whether investors are still willing to support the expansion of AI infrastructure.
Broadcom wants to expand sales of chips and other data center equipment and challenge Nvidia (Huida, also known as Nvidia); On the other hand, AI companies like Anthropic are also increasing their demand for computing power.
This transaction further expands the scale of debt financing in the field of AI infrastructure. To date, the industry has raised hundreds of billions of dollars in debt to build related infrastructure. While most of the money is used to build data centers, the number of deals specifically financing chip and server purchases is also growing.
In August this year, Huida also announced the establishment of a partnership with six financial industry giants, including Blackstone Group, with the goal of raising more than US$500 billion in third-party funds for AI infrastructure and GPU purchases.
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This financing is mainly used for Anthropic to purchase Broadcom chips and arrange financing and leasing through a newly established special-purpose company, so that the computing power needed for AI model development can be quickly available.
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Participating institutions include Bank of America, Blackstone Group, Citigroup and Morgan Stanley. These financial institutions jointly provided funds to help establish a chip financing and leasing structure that can be used by Anthropic.
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This transaction shows that capital markets are still willing to support the expansion of AI infrastructure. This also reflects the continued increase in financing requirements for chips and data centers, and gives Broadcom a greater opportunity to challenge HUDA’s position in the AI hardware market.
