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11 Aug 2026

Nvidia Expands Into AI Infrastructure Finance

Nvidia is reportedly forming a major AI infrastructure investment partnership with some of the world’s largest private-capital firms, including Apollo, Blackstone, BlackRock, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. The objective: mobilise huge pools of private capital to finance the chips, data centres and power infrastructure required for the AI build-out. The scale is enormous: Morgan Stanley estimates hyperscalers will spend $3.5 trillion between 2026 and 2028, while Apollo believes total AI infrastructure investment could eventually exceed $8 trillion. Nvidia is moving beyond selling GPUs. It is increasingly helping customers finance the infrastructure needed to buy and deploy its chips—including providing financial backing and potentially guarantees. Nvidia is separately discussing a massive guarantee for a 10GW Ohio data-centre project leased to OpenAI, highlighting how deeply it could become involved in financing the AI ecosystem. Private capital is becoming critical. AI investment requirements are now too large to be financed through corporate cash flows alone, pushing tech companies toward private credit, bonds, securitisation, project finance and equity. The risk: Nvidia financing or guaranteeing customers that ultimately purchase Nvidia chips creates concerns around “circular financing” and increasingly concentrated financial exposure across the AI ecosystem. Bottom line: Nvidia is evolving from the AI boom’s dominant chip supplier into something closer to its financial architect. Partnering with private-capital giants could unlock trillions for AI infrastructure—but also further intertwines Nvidia’s financial fortunes with the customers driving its extraordinary revenue growth. Source: FT

17 Jul 2026

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3 Jul 2026

Trump's updated portfolio

heavy on semiconductors (10% NVIDIA, 4.5% Qualcomm, 4% Micron, and 5% Intel) Source: Rand Group

16 Jun 2026

Nvidia is planning to sell at least $20bn of investment-grade debt in the US its first bond sale in more than five years in a test of investor appetite for further exposure to the AI sector.

Source: FT

16 Jun 2026

Nvidia

Source: Investing.com

1 Jun 2026

Nvidia will launch a PC “superchip” this year as the semiconductor giant goes head-to-head with Apple, Qualcomm, Intel and AMD for the first time.

Computer makers including Dell, Asus and HP will use what Nvidia claims is “the most efficient PC chip ever built”, paired with Microsoft’s Windows software, Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang announced on Monday. The launch marks a major competitive shift in the consumer PC industry and a new business line for $5.1tn Nvidia. The company, best known for its dominance of semiconductors for AI infrastructure, is pushing beyond its traditional graphics cards into integrated chips that power the whole PC. Lenovo, Microsoft, Acer and Taiwan’s MSI will also use the product. Source: FT

28 May 2026

Nvidia has officially entered correction territory after dumping -11.30% in just 8 trading sessions.

$640 billion has been wiped out from Nvidia's market cap over the same period. Huawei's new chip architecture is now directly challenging the hardware scarcity narrative that supported Nvidia's $5 trillion valuation. Source: Bull Theory

27 May 2026

Over NT$82,000,000,000,000 ($2.57 TRILLION) has been added to Taiwan’s stock market in 2026 alone as it explodes 52% YTD.

Source: Bull Theory

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