Geoffrey Seiler, The Motley Fool
Sun, January 11, 2026 astatine 3:35 PM CST 5 min read
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Nvidia remains the AI infrastructure leader, but its banal is up immense and the institution is facing accrued competition.
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Broadcom has a large accidental successful the ASIC marketplace helping customers plan customized AI chips.
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AMD has precocious won immoderate large deals and is good positioned successful inference.
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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is the king of artificial quality (AI) infrastructure. It has built a bully moat, peculiarly successful ample connection exemplary (LLM) training, arsenic its CUDA bundle solution became the de facto mode to programme graphics processing units (GPUs) for AI workloads during the precise aboriginal days erstwhile AI was successful its aboriginal days of development. That has helped springiness the institution an approximate 90% marketplace stock successful the GPU space.
Meanwhile, its gross has soared astir tenfold successful the past 3 years, and its shares person risen astir 1,200% to marque it the largest institution successful the world. At the aforesaid time, the institution is starting to spot accrued competition, and its marketplace stock has obscurity to spell but down. While Nvidia inactive has a agleam outlook, let's look astatine 2 alternate AI spot stocks that could person adjacent bigger upside.
Nvidia's biggest menace is coming from Broadcom (NASDAQ: AVGO), which is simply a person successful ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) technology. Nvidia's GPUs were erstwhile disrupted by ASICs successful the cryptocurrency market, and companies are present progressively looking toward these pre-programmed chips arsenic a cheaper alternate to Nvidia's GPUs to assistance powerfulness immoderate of their AI workloads. While these chips are hardwired for circumstantial tasks and deficiency the flexibility and adaptability of GPUs, they thin to execute the task for which they were designed precise well, and importantly, they are much energy-efficient. This makes them peculiarly well-suited for inference, fixed that it is an ongoing cost.
In the ASIC market, Broadcom provides customers the gathering blocks to make their ain customized chips done entree to its IP portfolio and the quality to get them manufactured astatine standard done its choky narration with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing. Broadcom helped Alphabet plan its highly palmy tensor processing units (TPUs), and it continues to enactment successful their success. Meanwhile, different companies, including OpenAI, person flocked to Broadcom for assistance successful designing their ain customized AI chips. This sets Broadcom up to spot explosive maturation implicit the adjacent fewer years.
Broadcom produced conscionable nether $64 cardinal successful full gross past year, of which astir $20 cardinal was related to AI. Analysts astatine Citigroup spot Broadcom's AI gross surging to surpass $50 cardinal this fiscal twelvemonth and $100 cardinal successful fiscal 2027. Those estimates don't adjacent see Apple, which has reportedly been moving with Broadcom connected its ain AI chip. This benignant of maturation sets Broadcom banal up to beryllium a immense imaginable victor successful the coming years.

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