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[Adam Kay]

Worth a watch if you have X. https://x.com/elonmusk/status/2056179413901877551?s=20

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[Adam Kay]

Nvidia report tonight. My call:

$80B+ and $45B net income which equates circa $1.80 EPS. I think the guide will be close to $90B for next quarter(May through July).

We will receive updates on Rubin/Vera Rubin

[exIM]

Good call

[Adam Kay]

Those are normal operational numbers. Non gaap including exceptional etc was 58b. There was a $15b revaluation (upwards) which would be related to one of their investments-listed I would think, prob Coreweave.

Operating cashflow +$50B

[Adam Kay]

NVIDIA just delivered numbers that barely seem real. Revenue hit roughly $81.6b for the quarter, up 85% year-on-year, with data centre revenue alone at $75.2bn. Guidance for next quarter came in at around $91bn — comfortably ahead of expectations. Gross margins are still sitting around 75%, which at this scale is almost absurd.

This is arguably the most staggering earnings print corporate America has ever seen in absolute dollar creation. The key point is not just the growth rate — it is the combination of hypergrowth and elite profitability.

Most companies can do one or the other. NVIDIA is doing both simultaneously at a scale previously associated with oil majors or sovereign economies.
The market was worried margins would crack as Blackwell ramps and competition intensifies. Instead, management effectively said margins around the mid-70s are sustainable even while revenue accelerates towards a $350b+ annualised run rate. That changes the entire valuation debate.
Jensen Huang’s framing was telling: this is no longer about selling chips; it is about building “AI factories” and becoming the infrastructure layer for the next computing era. Hyperscalers are still spending aggressively, inference demand is exploding, and sovereign AI buildouts are only starting.
At this point the bear case is no longer “AI demand collapses”. The only credible concerns are geopolitical restrictions, customer concentration, or eventually the law of large numbers. But right now, the numbers keep overwhelming every attempt to call the peak.

Management approved an additional $80b share buy back, which now totally $140b. The dividend was also raised 2,400% to 25c

NB-Look at the growth. 85% on revenue and 140% on EPS. Massive operating leverage too. JA sub 20 Fwd PE. Perhaps 18.

Earnings call highlights:

Main Takeaways From NVIDIA Earnings
Revenue growth was massive — again
NVIDIA posted another record quarter:
Revenue reached $82B, up 85% year-over-year and 20% sequentially
This was the company’s 14th consecutive quarter of sequential growth
Free cash flow came in at $49B
Data Centre revenue alone was $75B
Management said demand for AI infrastructure continues to accelerate globally.
Blackwell demand is exploding
The dominant theme of the call:
Demand for Blackwell systems has gone effectively vertical.
Management stated:
Blackwell is the fastest product ramp in company history
Hyperscalers and frontier model companies are deploying hundreds of thousands of GPUs
GB300 demand is exceptionally strong
Blackwell now powers or supports nearly every major frontier AI lab
They repeatedly stressed that inference demand — not only training — is now driving enormous spending.
NVIDIA says “AI factories” are the new data centres
A major change in positioning:
NVIDIA no longer frames GPUs as standalone chips.

Instead:

Customers are building “AI factories”
The important metric is no longer GPU purchase price
It is:
token throughput
token cost
utilisation
energy efficiency
lifetime economics
Jensen Huang essentially argued that compute capacity is now directly linked to revenue generation.
Their thesis:

More compute = more AI output = more customer revenue.
They believe AI infrastructure becomes a multi-trillion-dollar market
One of the boldest claims:
Hyperscaler CapEx could exceed $1T annually by 2027
Total AI infrastructure spending could reach $3T–$4T per year by the end of the decade
Management believes AI is shifting from optional software enhancement to essential infrastructure across nearly every industry.
NVIDIA is changing how it reports the business
The company reorganised reporting into:

1. Hyperscale
   Public cloud giants and major consumer internet firms.
2. ACIE
   (AI cloud, industrial, enterprise)
   This includes:

sovereign AI projects
AI-native clouds
enterprise deployments
industrial AI systems
Management strongly implied this second category could eventually surpass hyperscalers in size.
Jensen’s central argument: NVIDIA wins because it owns the whole stack
Huang spent a large portion of the call reinforcing this point.
NVIDIA claims its advantage is not merely GPUs, but:

chips
networking
software
CUDA ecosystem
system integration
rack-scale infrastructure
deployment tooling
He described NVIDIA as the only company delivering a fully integrated AI platform across hyperscale, enterprise, sovereign AI, robotics, and edge computing.
Vera CPU was a major surprise
Possibly the most underappreciated part of the call.
NVIDIA now believes CPUs become critical in agentic AI systems.

Why?

Because:

agents orchestrate tasks on CPUs
tools, browsers, memory systems, and workflows run on CPUs
GPUs still perform the “thinking”, but CPUs coordinate everything
They introduced:
Vera CPU
A custom ARM-based CPU tightly integrated with Rubin GPUs.
Claims included:

1.5x faster per core
2x performance per watt
4x rack density versus x86 alternatives
Most striking statement:
NVIDIA sees nearly $20B in standalone CPU revenue this year.
That represents a substantial expansion beyond GPUs.
Rubin is arriving quickly
Rubin shipments begin in Q3.

NVIDIA says Rubin could deliver:

up to 35x higher inference throughput
up to 10x greater AI factory revenue versus Blackwell
Huang also claimed:
every major frontier AI lab is expected to adopt Rubin
Rubin adoption could exceed Blackwell adoption
Inference is now the centre of the AI race
Another major shift in messaging.
The company repeatedly stated:

AI has evolved from:
one-shot inference
→ reasoning
→ agentic AI
They now view inference as the dominant long-term compute market.
Jensen specifically said NVIDIA is rapidly gaining inference market share.

Physical AI and robotics are becoming meaningful businesses
Edge computing revenue reached $6.4B.
They highlighted:

robotics
autonomous vehicles
AI-powered telecoms networks
industrial systems
robotaxis
The company said physical AI generated more than $9B in revenue over the last 12 months.
China remains largely absent
Important detail:
NVIDIA said it is not including China data centre revenue in guidance because export restrictions remain uncertain.

So current forecasts exclude potential China upside.

Capital returns increased sharply
NVIDIA announced:
dividend increase from $0.01 to $0.25
new $80B buyback authorisation
target to return roughly 50% of free cash flow to shareholders
That is a major signal of confidence.
Guidance exceeded expectations
Next quarter guidance:
Revenue: $91B ±2%
Gross margins around 75%
Management also reiterated confidence in:
$1 trillion of Blackwell + Rubin revenue between 2025–2027.
That figure clearly surprised analysts.
Jensen’s underlying message
The entire call essentially boiled down to this-NVIDIA no longer sees itself as:**

a GPU company
or even simply a semiconductor company

It sees itself as:
the operating system of the AI economy
the infrastructure layer beneath agentic AI
the default platform for frontier AI models
And Jensen clearly believes AI compute demand is still in the early stages — not near the peak.
That is why the tone of the call was unusually aggressive, even by NVIDIA standards.

[Adam Kay]

Did Nvidia suggest they alone would buy all the memory?

On today’s conference call, NVIDIA stated that it expects the standalone Vera CPU market to reach $20 billion in FY2027.

The unit price of Grace CPU is estimated at around $3,000–$5,000. Since Vera is the successor to Grace and is optimised for AI agentic workloads, we expect Vera to carry a higher ASP of roughly $5,000–$8,000 per unit.

Assuming a Vera CPU ASP of $8,000, a $20 billion market would imply 2.5 million CPUs.

It remains unclear whether standalone Vera CPU sales will include the same SoCAMM capacity as NVL72. However, assuming the same capacity is applied, each Vera CPU would have 8 SoCAMM slots. Assuming 192GB per module, SoCAMM capacity per Vera CPU would be 1,536GB.

Therefore, FY2027 SoCAMM demand for Vera CPU would be:

2.5 million CPUs × 1,536GB = 3.84 billion GB, or 30.72 billion Gb.

CY2026, which broadly overlaps with NVIDIA’s FY2027, SoCAMM supply from the three major DRAM makers is estimated at 30 billion Gb. Therefore, combined SoCAMM demand from NVIDIA’s standalone Vera CPU sales and VR NVL72 sales already appears likely to exceed the annual (global)supply capacity of 30 billion Gb.

Assuming CY2027 VR NVL72 shipments of 100,000 servers, we estimated the SoCAMM TAM at 44 billion Gb based on 192GB modules. If additional SoCAMM demand from standalone Vera CPU sales is added, the CY2027 SoCAMM TAM could exceed 80 billion Gb.

An annual 80 billion Gb of LPDDR5 would be nearly equivalent to the annual LPDDR5 TAM used for smartphones.

The shortage of LPDDR5 — and of DRAM overall — is likely to intensify further over time.