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NVIDIA Corporation earnings call
Buzzberg read
Agentic AI has arrived; demand has gone parabolic.
NVIDIA reported another blowout quarter with revenue and guidance significantly above expectations, driven by 'parabolic' demand for its Blackwell AI infrastructure from the acceleration of agentic AI. The tone is brimming with confidence, centered on a massive expansion in market share, the rise of a new 'ACIE' customer segment, and the opening of a new $200 billion TAM with its Vera CPU. Total revenue $82B (+85% YoY), guidance $91B (+-2%) for Q2 FY27, smashing consensus.
Buzzberg read Agentic AI has arrived; demand has gone parabolic. NVIDIA reported another blowout quarter with revenue and guidance significantly above expectations, driven by 'parabolic' demand for its Blackwell AI infrastructure from the acceleration of agentic AI. The tone is brimming with confidence, centered on a massive expansion in market share, the rise of a new 'ACIE' customer segment, and the opening of a new $200 billion TAM with its Vera CPU. Total revenue $82B (+85% YoY), guidance $91B (+-2%) for Q2 FY27, smashing consensus. Read full analysisCollapse analysis
NVIDIA reported another blowout quarter with revenue and guidance significantly above expectations, driven by 'parabolic' demand for its Blackwell AI infrastructure from the acceleration of agentic AI. The tone is brimming with confidence, centered on a massive expansion in market share, the rise of a new 'ACIE' customer segment, and the opening of a new $200 billion TAM with its Vera CPU. Total revenue $82B (+85% YoY), guidance $91B (+-2%) for Q2 FY27, smashing consensus.
- Massive expansion in frontier AI lab coverage with new partnership with Anthropic.
- New reporting segments (Hyperscale vs ACIE) reveal that 45% of data center revenue comes from a diverse set of customers (AI clouds, enterprise, industrial, sovereign), growing 30%+ QoQ.
- Targeting $20B in standalone Vera CPU revenue, opening a new $200B TAM.
DATA_CENTER Revenue$75BReported
Revenue$81.615B+20% QoQ
EPS$1.87+15% QoQ
Gross margin74.93%Reported
6 grounded callouts
What matters now
The highest-signal changes from the call.
CPU
Vera CPU opens new $200B TAM with $20B revenue visibility.
Capex
AI infrastructure TAM projected at $3-4T annually by decade end.
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Guidance
Confidence in $1T Blackwell and Rubin revenue through 2027.
China
China data center compute revenue still excluded from outlook.
AI Monetization
Customers build AI factories, not just buy GPUs.
Reported period
Actuals
| Metric | Reported | Change |
|---|---|---|
| DATA_CENTER Revenue | $75B | Reported |
| Revenue | $81.615B | +20% QoQ |
| EPS | $1.87 | +15% QoQ |
| Gross margin | 74.93% | Reported |
| Free cash flow | $48.587B | +39% QoQ |
| Capex | $1.757B | Reported |
Forward-looking
Forward guidance
| Metric | Period | Range | Midpoint | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gross margin | FY2027 Q2 | 74.5%–75.5%In line with consensus | 75% | Maintained |
| Revenue | FY2027 Q2 | $89.18B–$92.82BAbove consensus | $91B | Maintained |
| RevenueDATA_CENTER | FY2027 Q2 | $82.6B–$86BAbove consensus | $84.3B | Maintained |
AI, capex & demand read
Management read
Bullish
Jensen called the quarter 'extraordinary' and said demand 'has gone parabolic,' while management expressed strong confidence in growth, supply, and a new $200B CPU TAM.
Management AI read
Management framed agentic AI as a structural inflection: AI can now do productive work and tokens are profitable, driving parabolic demand. NVIDIA is positioning itself as the platform for frontier AI and inference, with Blackwell/Rubin ramping and Vera CPU opening a new agentic-AI TAM; near-term monetization is visible in rising H100/A100 rental prices.
Investment and capacity
NVIDIA is raising forward supply and capacity commitments to $145B and remains confident it can support accelerating demand, with hyperscale capex forecast to exceed $1T in 2027 and AI infrastructure spending on track to $3-4T annually by decade-end. Vera Rubin production shipments begin in Q3, and management expects continued sequential data center growth.
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Customers
OPENAI
Customers
Colette Kress
OpenAI's growth is accelerating, driving demand for NVIDIA compute, especially for inference on Blackwell.
Evidence
“Growth in the model layer, particularly at Anthropic and OpenAI, has been incredible with momentum continuing to accelerate, including breakout growth in OpenAI's codecs since the launch of GPT 5.5.”
Customers
Colette Kress
Microsoft is a key customer with a major Blackwell deployment that is coming online ahead of schedule.
Evidence
“Microsoft's Fairwater, the world's most powerful AI data center, is now live, ahead of scheduled, powered by hundreds of thousands of Blackwell GPUs.”
Customers
Colette Kress
AWS is committing to a massive deployment of NVIDIA GPUs, reinforcing NVIDIA's partnership and growth with a major hyperscaler.
Evidence
“Starting this year, AWS will add more than 1 million Blackwell and Rubin GPUs and are collaborating on spectrum networking.”
Customers
Colette Kress
Google is a customer adopting Blackwell, and is also set to be an early adopter of Rubin GPUs with support for up to 960,000 GPUs.
Evidence
“At Google, Blackwell will be offered to customers in the cloud, including confidential computing capability, a new foundation for secure, high-performance AI.”
Partners
ANTHROPIC
Partners
Colette Kress
NVIDIA is committed to expanding Anthropic's compute capacity, indicating substantial growth in demand from the private AI lab.
Evidence
“We have deepened our collaboration with Anthropic and are delighted to be a strategic partner to expand their compute capacity. We will support the company's growth trajectory through AWS, Azure, CoreWeave, SpaceX AI, and more.”
Partners
Colette Kress
NVIDIA's partnership with Uber for robotaxis points to a significant future revenue stream in the Edge Computing/Physical AI segment.
Evidence
“Our partnership with Uber will power the Robotaxi fleet across nearly 30 cities and four continents by 2028.”
Supply chain
Supply chain
Colette Kress
NVIDIA is targeting $20 billion in revenue for its standalone Vera CPU, addressing a brand new $200 billion TAM, signaling a major push into a new market segment beyond its core GPU business. — This is a direct challenge to AMD and Intel in the data center CPU market and hinges on the growth of agentic AI workloads.
Evidence
“We have visibility to nearly 20 billion in total CPU revenue this year, setting us up to become the world leading CPU supplier.”
Supply chain
NVIDIA has increased its total supply commitments, including inventory and purchase prepaids, to $145 billion, indicating that it is protecting itself against tight supply conditions and expecting continued high demand. — This suggests NVIDIA is making major commitments to its supply chain partners (e.g., TSMC, Hynix) to secure capacity, lowering the risk of bottlenecks but also tightening the overall supply.
Colette KressExternal signals
Supply-chain alpha · 5returns since call
NVIDIA is targeting $20 billion in revenue for its standalone Vera CPU, addressing a brand new $200 billion TAM, signaling a major push into a new market segment beyond its core GPU business.
NVIDIA has signed on Anthropic as a new strategic partner, marking a major shift in its coverage of frontier AI labs, which was previously close to zero for Anthropic.
NVIDIA's new segmentation reveals that the 'ACIE' (AI Clouds, Industrial, Enterprise) market platform is already nearly half of the data center revenue and growing faster sequentially (31%) than the Hyperscale segment (12%).
NVIDIA remains completely uncertain about its ability to generate revenue in China, stating that despite H-200 licenses, no revenue is included in the outlook.
NVIDIA has increased its total supply commitments, including inventory and purchase prepaids, to $145 billion, indicating that it is protecting itself against tight supply conditions and expecting continued high demand.
Methodology & coverage
Management-only analysis. All 9 validated company mentions are shown. Reported actuals and forward guidance are kept separate. Public evidence is limited to eight short attributed quotes. AI-generated analysis can be incomplete or wrong; verify important claims against the original source.