Nvidia’s recent financial performance, exceeding expectations and raising guidance, has raised eyebrows due to its resemblance to revenue inflation tactics seen during the dot-com bubble.
- Company A buys GPUs from Nvidia.
- Nvidia buys cloud computing credits from Company A.
- Both companies report these transactions as revenue.
Commitments to cloud computing services have surged, doubling to nearly $9 billion, involving companies like CoreWeave, Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle.
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How did Nvidia manage to exceed expectations and raise guidance? Jensen Huang, having experienced the dot-com era, seems to have applied some familiar revenue inflation tactics.
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Making it:
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