Broadcom's Hock Tan is the second HBM gatekeeper, cementing AVGO's custom AI chip moat across Google, Meta, and OpenAI
HBM scarcity is so extreme even Google can't source it directly, making Micron's constrained memory supply a multi-year pricing windfall
NVIDIA controls HBM supply allocation at scale, locking out ASIC rivals and compounding its AI chip pricing power