Nvidia’s 70% Growth Forecast Reopens the AI Trade — but the Bottleneck Has Moved to Memory
Nvidia’s 70% revenue-growth forecast lifted chip and software stocks, while memory supply and component costs emerged as the next constraint.
NVIDIA designs the accelerated-computing platforms — GPUs, networking and the CUDA software stack — that underpin most commercial AI training and inference workloads. Founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA Corporation employs approximately 36,000 people.
Nvidia’s 70% revenue-growth forecast lifted chip and software stocks, while memory supply and component costs emerged as the next constraint.
Nvidia reported $96.2bn in quarterly revenue, with data-centre sales reaching $89bn as global AI infrastructure spending accelerates.
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