# When Nvidia and Broadcom Choose the Same Foundry, That Is a Standard

- slug: when-nvidia-and-broadcom-choose-the-same-foundry-that-is-a-standard
- date: 2026-04-16
- category: Space & Aerospace

The AI chip industry discovered its next bottleneck is not compute — it is the wiring between chips. Nvidia and Broadcom just answered that question the same way: light, through the same TSMC platform. What that means for every fab and photonics startup is the story.

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