Broadcom is borrowing $60B so a customer can buy its chips

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                              October 4, 2026  •  Sunday edition  •  No hype, just perspective.
                             

The Chipmakers Are Now Lending Customers the Money to Buy Their Chips

This week Broadcom lined up a $60 billion debt package to fund one customer’s chip purchases. Nvidia has pledged roughly $100 billion to another. The sales look like booming demand. Look closer and a growing share of that demand is money the seller lent the buyer, a structure the last tech bust taught us to recognize.

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The Scoreboard

• The new deal: Broadcom is assembling about $60 billion in debt — a $42 billion senior tranche plus an $18 billion junior tranche led by Blackstone — to finance chips for Anthropic, which is set to become Broadcom’s largest compute customer by 2027, per Reuters and Bloomberg reporting.

• The template: Nvidia has pledged up to roughly $100 billion to OpenAI and helped mobilize more than $500 billion for AI infrastructure. AMD, Amazon and Microsoft have each funded customers that then buy their products.

• The debt wave: The five biggest hyperscalers issued $159 billion of corporate bonds in the first five months of 2026, more than their combined borrowing over the prior five years, per the IMF.

• The empty lots: About 60% of data-center capacity planned for completion by 2027 has not broken ground, with another 7% delayed.

• The warning: The IMF’s Tobias Adrian flagged that the big tech firms are “starting to leverage up themselves,” with a maturity mismatch between short-dated debt and assets that depreciate fast.

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When the seller funds the buyer

Here is the loop, in plain terms. Broadcom arranges tens of billions in loans so Anthropic can lease Broadcom’s chips. Nvidia invests in OpenAI, and OpenAI spends the money on Nvidia’s chips. The chipmaker books a sale and record demand; the customer books a debt. The same dollar does both jobs, and it leaves the building as revenue.

On paper, everyone wins. The chipmaker’s revenue climbs, its stock climbs, and the AI lab gets the compute it could not otherwise afford. Broadcom shares traded near $347 this week; Nvidia sits among the most valuable companies on earth. The demand is real in the sense that the chips are ordered and installed. The question is what is paying for it.

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We have seen this film. In the late 1990s, Lucent, Nortel and others lent upstart telecom carriers the money to buy their networking gear. It looked like a demand boom, right up until the carriers could not pay. The vendors had financed their own sales, so when the customers failed, the lenders took the losses twice: once on the loan, once on the vanished orders. The equipment makers led the market up, and then led it down.

What is actually being tested. None of this says artificial intelligence is a fad; the telecom bust never meant the internet was fake, and it was not. The issue is how the buildout is being paid for. When demand is funded by the supplier’s own credit, a slowdown does not just dent sales. It defaults a loan, and the loss lands on the lender who was also the seller. That is why Steve Eisman, who called the 2008 mortgage bust, has flagged the incentive to push this financing off the balance sheet where it is harder to see.

Watch the debt stack. This is the part worth holding onto. The $18 billion junior tranche behind the Broadcom deal, the $159 billion of hyperscaler bonds issued in five months, the IMF’s warning about short-term debt funding assets that age fast: those are the gauges that matter now, more than any single chipmaker’s quarter. Booms built on equity correct. Booms built on borrowed money break, because debt has a payment date and a lender who can refuse to roll it.

Where that leaves you. You very likely own this, whether or not you bought a single AI stock. The handful of names at the center of these deals make up a large slice of the S&P 500, so an ordinary index fund carries the exposure. A boom like this can run for years, so this is no cue to bail out. The useful move is to know that part of the gain under your retirement account rests on vendor-financed demand, and to watch the credit markets as closely as the headlines for the first sign the financing is getting harder to arrange.

With about 60% of planned data centers not yet in the ground, most of this spending is still a promise. Promises funded by borrowing are only as good as the next round of lending. The chips are real. So is the debt behind them, and the debt is the half nobody puts on the billboard.

When a company lends you the money to buy its product, the sale and the risk are the same transaction. The AI boom is still booking the sale. The risk is quietly piling up on the other side of the ledger.

Harold Winston

Thirty years reading markets for a living.

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Bitcoin Moves in Waves

I know this has been a brutal stretch to be a crypto investor.

Bitcoin is still 32% below its October 2025 high of $126,000. Most altcoins have been hit even harder. And every few days it seems like there’s another reason to question whether you should still be invested in this asset class.

Look at what bitcoin had to absorb just last week.

The war with Iran pushed oil back above $100 per barrel, making the inflation problem even harder for the Federal Reserve to solve.

Then the Senate failed to move the CLARITY Act forward, stalling one of the biggest pieces of crypto legislation in Washington.

A day later, the Fed raised interest rates for the first time in more than three years, giving investors another reason to pull money out of risk assets like crypto.

If you’ve looked at all of that and wondered whether the smart move is to sell, salvage what’s left, and come back when things feel safer, I get it.

In the past, the headlines we saw last week would’ve absolutely crushed bitcoin. And BTC has taken some hits. But every time it gets knocked down, buyers keep stepping back in.

As of this writing, bitcoin is nearly 50% above its 2026 low of $57,700.

That tells me something.

People still feel lousy about crypto. The headlines are still ugly. But the price is holding up far better than you’d expect given everything being thrown at it.

My read is that – behind the scenes – stronger hands are coming back into this market.

And given the money we’re seeing move through the institutional channels, I believe some of those buyers are the same big-money players who have driven every major Crypto Wealth Wave before this one. (More on those wealth waves in a moment.)

In fact, if all I had to offer you right now was, “Don’t worry. Crypto is going back up. Just trust me,” you should ignore what I have to say today.

I’ve been through too many cycles to ask you for blind faith.

What I want to show you instead is a pattern I have watched play out again and again since I first got into crypto in 2016.

The most expensive time to quit crypto has usually been the moment when quitting felt most reasonable.

I’ve seen good people walk away at exactly that point, only to watch the market turn around without them.

I’ve been through enough crypto cycles now to recognize this pattern. Three separate times, a new group of buyers came into this market and brought a fresh wave of money with them.

Look at bitcoin.

I first recommended BTC in April 2016 when it was trading around $400-and-change. At the time, bitcoin was misunderstood. Plenty of people thought it was a joke. One of its own core developers had just walked away and called it a failed experiment.

I went back through my research, and the deeper I looked, the more convinced I became that the story was getting stronger, not weaker. Usage was growing, more money was coming into the market, and the infrastructure around crypto was starting to mature.

Everything I was seeing told me adoption was coming. So I stuck with my call to buy.

By December 2017, bitcoin had climbed to nearly $20,000, a gain of roughly 4,550%. A $1,000 stake when I first recommended BTC would’ve grown to about $46,500.

Then the first Crypto Winter hit.

Bitcoin fell below $4,000. The headlines turned ugly. People who had laughed at bitcoin in 2016 came back and said the whole thing had been a bubble after all. But my research was still telling me the same thing: adoption was moving forward.

So while a lot of people were giving up, I doubled down and told my readers to buy before the next bull market got underway.

Bitcoin went from roughly $3,200 to about $69,000, a gain of approximately 2,056%. Every $1,000 invested near those lows would have grown to about $21,562.

Then it happened again. Bitcoin crashed to around $16,000.

By then, people had a new explanation for why I kept getting bitcoin right: I’d just been lucky. And when I said bitcoin would eventually break through $100,000, plenty of people thought I had finally lost my marbles.

I understood why.

Calling for six-figure bitcoin while it was sitting near $16,000 sounded ridiculous if all you were looking at was the price. But I wasn’t making that call based on hope.

I was following the same narrative I had followed from the beginning: adoption. Wall Street was building crypto infrastructure. Institutional access was expanding. And the pool of buyers was getting larger.

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Bitcoin went from roughly $16,000 to more than $126,000 at the peak, a gain of about 688%. That was enough to turn every $1,000 into roughly $7,875.

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The biggest opportunities came after the early buyers had taken profits, the market had run out of steam, and confidence was shot – even as the next wave of adoption was already starting to build.

That’s when I ask myself one question: Who’s going to bring the next wave of money into this market?

I call that ugly stretch between adoption waves the “lull.” And friends, hear me when I tell you…. that’s where all the life-changing profits live. In the lull.

The Lull is About to Turn into a Tidal Wave

And this is where bitcoin starts to look very interesting to me.

Because while we’ve been dealing with war, $100 oil, stubborn inflation, a setback for the CLARITY Act, and higher interest rates, bitcoin has been quietly climbing off its lows.

Bitcoin fell below $58,000 at the end of June. Today, it is back above $85,000. That’s a rebound of nearly 50% from its 2026 low. By comparison, the S&P 500 is up 7% and gold 10% over the same stretch.

Normally, that alone wouldn’t tell me much. Crypto is volatile, so it bounces all the time. What matters is what bitcoin has had to fight through to get here.

Inflation is still elevated. The Fed just raised its benchmark rate by a quarter point to 3.75%-4.00%. The Iran war has kept pressure on global energy markets, with Brent crude still above $100 per barrel. And the CLARITY Act has been set back.

I want you to really think about the volatility bitcoin has had to fight through to make that move. Those are exactly the kinds of conditions that usually make people dump risk assets like bitcoin and hide in cash or Treasuries.

Yet bitcoin is holding above $85,000.

And money has started moving back into the spot bitcoin ETFs. Last Thursday alone, those funds took in about $160 million, according to JPMorgan data cited by The Wall Street Journal.

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That makes me wonder who’s buying while everybody else is still scared.

It’s clear to me that we’re starting to see big money move back into bitcoin.

Some of the same institutions that spent months reducing risk are now positioning themselves again before the next major catalyst becomes obvious to everybody else.

That doesn’t mean bitcoin can’t fall from here. It absolutely can… And I hope it does so I can buy more.

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If you’re building a bitcoin position, you can do weekly dollar-cost averaging with one-third of the money you have allocated to bitcoin.

Let’s say you have $9,000 total you want to put into bitcoin. Take that first third of capital and divide it by 12. Take that $3,000. Divide it by 12. That equals $250.

Every Monday, buy $250 worth of BlackRock’s bitcoin ETF (IBIT) until the $3,000 has been allocated.

The other two-thirds you’ll want to deploy anytime bitcoin gets back down to the 200-week moving average (MA). If bitcoin doesn’t get down there by the time you’ve allocated your first third, then take the remaining $6,000 and divide it by 12. That gives you $500.

Every Monday buy $500 of IBIT until the $6,000 has been allocated. If BTC hits the 200-week MA at any time during this phase, simply take what’s left from the first one-third and buy at the 200-week moving average.

You won’t get the very best price with this approach. But you’ll get a very good price.

This is how I allocate to bitcoin during a bear market. What’s great about it is you don’t need to wait for bitcoin to touch the 200-week MA to start dollar-cost averaging.

And you don’t need to catch the exact bottom. Keep your position sizes rational and never put more at risk than you can afford to lose.

Let the Game Come to You!

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