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Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Nvidia, responsible for presenting the company's financial results and guidance to investors.
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The first year-ahead forecast in Nvidia's history implies about $673 billion in fiscal 2028, roughly $103 billion above consensus, and hands every capacity planner a figure to hold it to.
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Nvidia put fiscal 2028 growth at roughly 70%, implying close to $690bn against $570bn consensus, and said about a quarter of that demand comes from AI labs it is financing.
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Nvidia's CEO claimed the milestone and dismissed it in the same answer, without ever defining it. For anyone who has to write acceptance criteria next week, that is reason enough to strike the word from the template.
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Revenue of $96.2bn at a 75.0% gross margin, with 74.0% guided for the next quarter, says the supplier is not trading price for volume. Capacity plans written in 2025 need new pricing inputs.
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Nvidia's credit support worked as an underwriting device more than a cash one. Pausing it moves the question from what a small cloud charges to who carries the risk on the GPUs it has not yet sold.
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Nvidia was refused a minority stake in the open-model hub late last year. The reported price for the whole company works out to about twelve days of Nvidia revenue, which is what defending the long tail of GPU demand costs.
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The first full-year guide in Nvidia's history sits about 18% above where consensus dollars were, not double them, and the stated reason for issuing it is that high-bandwidth memory is already constrained.
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The Sydney builder of AI data centres opens a A$7 billion share sale on October 6 at a target value near A$50 billion, with 40 percent of its contracted megawatts sitting in one Indonesian contract signed with Nvidia.
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The book grew from about $7bn in a year, and roughly half of it is priced by funding rounds rather than by markets, which means a demand forecast built on customer orders is partly a forecast of Nvidia's own marks.
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Forward supply and manufacturing commitments nearly tripled in six months to $279bn, which means Nvidia is buying memory and fabrication capacity years ahead of orders against its own forecast of what everyone else will spend.
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Private holdings ran from $22.3bn to $47.9bn in under a year, with another $18bn committed. Anyone reading Nvidia's demand signal is partly reading capital Nvidia itself supplied, though its CFO rejects that framing.
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Nvidia's credit-support program for AI cloud providers was under two months old when it stepped back from some deals, and its own employees had been telling customers the terms invited antitrust scrutiny. This week's filing put $36 billion behind it.
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Nvidia, Salesforce and CrowdStrike all beat, and software repriced by a fifth in one session on the argument that AI capex is additive. Then Warsh moved the odds of a September hike to 55% and the tape barely blinked.
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Colette Kress told the call that sovereign, NeoCloud and enterprise buyers will be roughly half of Nvidia's data center business. The quarter she was reporting puts them at 44.9%, which makes the claim a forecast.
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Colette Kress guided 70% growth against a 44% consensus, which on an unchanged base lifts fiscal 2028 revenue estimates by roughly 18%, while the 2 million GPUs AWS is buying arrived with no disclosed price or delivery window.
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Guidance 26 points above consensus is a procurement forecast wearing a demand forecast's clothes. The bottleneck ranking that buyers actually needed was the one thing withheld.
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Two million Blackwell Ultra and Rubin parts, booked five months after a one million commitment. Custom silicon did not substitute for Nvidia; it added to the bill.
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Two sources tell CNBC the chipmaker is introducing Nordic data-center operators to firms holding its GPUs. That puts the supplier inside the siting decision.
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The reported Ohio backstop shrank from $250 billion to $105 billion before the Aug. 26 print, and what is left is a bet on used-GPU resale values.
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