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Broadcom Accelerates the AI Era with the Industry’s First End-to-End 50G PON Edge AI Portfolio

$AVGOPress releaseMay 26, 2026, 9:00 AM ETRead the release

Broadcom announced the BCM68850, the industry’s first 50G ITU-PON home gateway SoC featuring an integrated neural processing unit (NPU) and native Wi-Fi 8 compatibility. The chip completes Broadcom’s end-to-end 50G PON portfolio, pairing with the BCM68660 OLT and BCM55050 ONT to provide a seamless ecosystem for edge AI inference and high-efficiency multi-gigabit workloads.

Key figures

Bandwidth
50G
Wifi standard
Wi-Fi 8

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