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Has the Memory Cycle Broken? Plus: Nvidia & Broadcom’s $40B+ Financing Playbook

The Circuit · 5 Oct 2026 · 58m · Episode 188

What this episode covers

Hosts Ben Bajarin and Jay Goldberg analyze whether the memory market has structurally changed or remains cyclical following Micron's earnings, debating the impact of CXMT's rapid capacity expansion and the trade-offs between HBM and legacy memory. They examine HPE's strategic pivot to networking post-Juniper acquisition, questioning its unique value proposition amid security concerns driven by agentic AI. The discussion then shifts to 'Balance Sheet as a Service,' detailing Nvidia's vendor financing disclosures and Broadcom's $42 billion loan commitment to Anthropic, analyzing why fabless designers are taking on capital risk instead of foundries like TSMC. Finally, they explore 'Tokenomics,' advocating for quantifying AI unit economics to move past hype and understand the hard-dollar value of input/output tokens and hardware optimization.

Most relevant to

large enterprises

Topics

Mentioned

Companies
Micron, CXMT, HPE, Juniper, Nvidia, Broadcom, Anthropic, TSMC, AMD, OpenAI
Products
Helios, Tomahawk, HBM, DDR4, LPDDR

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