Broadcom Unveils AI-Powered Cybersecurity Tool To Disrupt Hackers And Boost Resilience

On Tuesday, Broadcom Inc (NASDAQ:AVGO) announced Incident Prediction, a security capability that extends Adaptive Protection, a feature of Symantec Endpoint Security Complete (SES-C), by leveraging AI to identify and disrupt living-off-the-land (LOTL) attacks and other cyber threats.

Trained on a catalog of over 500,000 real-world attack chains built by the Symantec Threat Hunter Team, Incident Prediction predicts attackers’ behaviors, prevents their next move in the attack chain even when using legitimate software, and then quickly returns the enterprise to its normal state. With Incident Prediction, SES-C delivers cyber resilience against motivated adversaries.

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Broadcom, the developer, manufacturer, and global semiconductor and infrastructure software product supplier, has lost 23% in value year-to-date, coinciding with U.S. President Donald Trump’s January inauguration.

The Nasdaq-100 lost over 10%, and the S&P 500 is down over 8%.

For context, the Biden administration’s semiconductor sanctions on China and other countries were already taking a toll on semiconductor companies, in addition to concerns over the sustainability of the massive artificial intelligence investments.

Additionally, Trump shared plans to impose tariffs on imported semiconductors. However, he promised flexibility with some companies in the sector. Trump stressed the country’s focus on domestic production of chips and semiconductors. He also announced a national security trade probe into the semiconductor sector.

JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur noted chip stocks have already taken a 25–30% hit amid intensifying trade tensions. He highlighted the potential for a further ~10% downside (5-15%) over the next six months, which could mark the final flush before a rebound.

Sur picked Broadcom as a favorite, backed by strong fundamentals with exposure to AI, design software, and increasing chip complexity. However, he also warned that semiconductor stocks may not be done falling, but with earnings resets coming soon, the worst might be behind us.

After Broadcom’s first-quarter report, Cantor Fitzgerald analyst CJ Muse said Broadcom announced four new XPU customers, possibly Arm Holdings (NASDAQ:ARM), OpenAI, Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) and a fourth that could be Oracle Corp (NYSE:ORCL), Microsoft Corp (NASDAQ:MSFT), Amazon.Com Inc (NASDAQ:AMZN), or xAI.

Muse expects it to add to the company’s AI revenue outlook and should boost its Serviceable Addressable Market (SAM) of $60 billion-$90 billion into fiscal 2027.

Price Action: At last check Wednesday, AVGO stock was down 3.68% to $172.36 premarket.

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