Founder, CEO, and tireless Nvidia hype man Jensen Huang told attendees at the Goldman Sachs Communicopia + Technology conference on Thursday why his company’s AI domination — and revenues — will continue its record-breaking growth streak through the end of next year.
He can see the future.
There’s been endless hand-wringing over whether Nvidia’s party will end as it faces increasing competition for GPUs and AI chips from all directions: the hyperscalers (Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, each building their own) and the AI labs (Anthropic and OpenAI, which are building their own) as well as from newly public competitor Cerebras and startups such as Etched.
“Most people think Nvidia builds a chip. I mean, you need airplanes to ship what we build,” Huang said, adding that the company continues to battle a perception from its early days. Nvidia invented the GPU, which back then were largely sold to consumers to improve PC gaming. “One GPU now is not $399. It’s $8.5 million dollars. That’s one GPU, all connected with NVLink, 2 million parts, right? 250,000 kilowatts. That’s a GPU, and we ship thousands of them.”
He added that orders for just one product, a computer system that combines 36 Grace CPUs with 72 Blackwell GPUs is currently experiencing 27% month-to-month sales growth.
