NVIDIA Corporation (NVDA)[Tv]

Key Developments

• NVIDIA secures a landmark $500 billion memory deal with SK Hynix, locking in long-term supply and co-development of next-generation high-bandwidth memory (HBM), eliminating a critical bottleneck in AI infrastructure and solidifying its control over a foundational component of AI systems.
• NVIDIA enters exclusive talks to provide up to $250 billion in financing for OpenAI’s Ohio data center expansion, marking a paradigm shift where NVDA transitions from chip supplier to strategic financial backer of the AI ecosystem—positioning it as the central architect of the global AI capital structure.
• NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin platform suffers a forced reduction in memory capacity from 192GB to 96GB per CPU due to severe HBM supply constraints and soaring costs, signaling a structural supply chain bottleneck at the heart of AI scaling—revealing that even the dominant player is now limited by physical, not demand-side, factors.
• SpaceX announces exclusive use of NVIDIA’s Vera Rubin architecture for its Starmind satellite program, validating NVDA’s technological supremacy in space-based AI computing and opening a high-growth frontier that amplifies its long-term relevance beyond terrestrial data centers.
• NVIDIA makes a $2 billion investment in Nebius Group to scale full-stack AI cloud infrastructure, securing long-term chip demand and reinforcing its control over the AI supply chain through strategic ecosystem consolidation.

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