The cleanest test of the AI cycle is what $NVDA is actually shipping, and current expectations still point to revenue climbing from ~$95B this quarter toward ~$110B next quarter.
If revenue keeps rising while gross margins hold around 75% then it becomes much harder to argue the
Perplexity's Portable Computer runs local models on a single NVIDIA DGX Spark, and pairing two or four scales up to frontier-class open models like Nemotron Ultra.
We've said every agent needs its own computer, and this is that thesis shipping as product. $NVDA
OpenAI's Jalapeño inference ASIC, fabbed on TSMC N3P, beat Nvidia and AMD accelerators on several efficiency metrics in SemiAnalysis testing.
Every custom-silicon program still routes through one foundry, so more inference ASICs means more leading-edge demand for TSMC. $TSM
Paid token demand is up 7x this year, and token margins climb with every architecture: roughly 58% on Blackwell, mid 70s on Rubin, an expected 90% on Feynman.
@danielnewmanUV on episode 53, correcting the token price chart making the rounds.
$NVDA earnings preview:
Dissecting what matters for their report tomorrow evening.
And disagreeing a bit on how we see the company going forward!
That's always fun.
"I put 80% of his brokerage into $NVDA as like a T bill at that moment. I truly view it as a T bill." -@StockSavvyShay
His son's brokerage, for the record. @StockMarketNerd takes the ETF route instead and gives up the upside. The verdicts from the NVIDIA deep dive.
@StockSavvyShay @StockMarketNerd The full deep dive covers what NVIDIA has become, the supply chain breadcrumbs, the $500 billion financing pool, and the one metric Shay watches when earnings land.
Ep 3, with chapters:
$NVDA may have built one of the most powerful financing flywheels in AI with more than $500B of outside infrastructure capital helping customers fund the buildout of the new economy.
That can extend the AI buildout while Nvidia’s own earnings curve keeps doing the heavy lifting
$NBIS closed a private offering of convertible senior notes sold to qualified institutional buyers.
Nebius Group reported aggregate gross proceeds of about $5.75 billion from the deal.