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New hardware, same AI rocket ship
Nvidia isn’t exactly acting like a company worried about the AI boom slowing down. It has started shipping its new Spectrum-X copackaged optics switches, developed with Taiwan Semiconductor, to select partners — the kind of behind-the-scenes infrastructure that makes giant AI data centers less power-hungry and more efficient.
The new switches are built to move up to 400 terabits per second, which is absurdly fast even by data-center standards. In plain English: Nvidia is trying to make the pipes behind AI bigger, cheaper to run, and less of an energy goblin.
Jensen Huang’s message: AI is still worth the bill
At the same time, CEO Jensen Huang is pushing back on the “is this spending actually paying off?” crowd. At a closed-door event in Taipei, he said AI returns have been completely reset over the last six months and are now “insanely profitable.” That’s not exactly modest, but it does tell you Nvidia is still trying to keep the market convinced the AI capex party has room for a few more encores.
He also name-checked the usual suspects in Nvidia’s ecosystem — including Micron and TSMC — while reminding everyone that AI needs more than chips. It also needs land, power, energy, and financing. Basically, the glamorous future of AI comes with a very unglamorous utility bill.
Why investors are watching
Nvidia shares were softer in premarket trading, but that looked more like a risk-off wobble than a company-specific bruise. The bigger takeaway is that Nvidia keeps turning itself from a chip seller into the toll booth on the entire AI highway.
Big picture: if Nvidia keeps shipping the picks and shovels of AI at this pace, the bull case doesn’t just survive — it gets another fresh coat of paint.