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Nvidia$NVDA · filed: grew revenue 65.5% in FY2026 to $215.9BSound shipTrillion Score 667Fall Risk LowNext year $269.4B–$528.1B sealedCheck ▾Close ▴
What Nvidia filed
Grew revenue 65.5% in FY2026 to $215.9 billion, operating margin 60.4% against a 2.4% median for semiconductors & related devices, equity 76.1% of assets, and dividend per share up 1 year running. Every figure links to the filing it came from on Nvidia’s card. Sound ship: one warning sign. Trillion Score 667, #2 of 107 in its field; Fall Risk Low (how it is measured).
What the house said in advance
Revenue for the fiscal year after 2026-01-25 between $269.4B and $528.1B, an 80% range sealed on 24 Sept 2026 · receipt #1b3cda · graded in public by the revenue in Nvidia’s next annual report.
Figures as filed with the SEC. Ranges, scores and boats are statistical descriptions of past filings, not ratings or recommendations. Reporting, not advice.
In plain words
NVIDIA locked HBM4 supply from SK Hynix and anchored **200MW** Korea sovereign AI factory, reducing memory risk for Vera Rubin and proving infrastructure funds will finance sovereign compute.
$500 billion
multi-party infrastructure partnership with SK Group
200 megawatts
by 2028
$10 billion
to the factory expansion
200-megawatt
facility will anchor Asia's sovereign AI compute footprint
NVIDIA announced a $500 billion multi-party infrastructure partnership with SK Group, Naver, and Brookfield on July 25, locking in high-bandwidth memory supply from SK Hynix and tripling South Korea's sovereign AI factory from 55 megawatts to 200 megawatts by 2028. The deal spans three verticals—memory, power, and compute—and marks the largest single coordination of AI infrastructure outside North America.
SK Hynix will supply HBM4 memory under a long-term contract tied to NVIDIA's Vera Rubin architecture, the first formal supply lock announced for the next-generation platform. Naver committed $10 billion to the factory expansion, partnering with Brookfield on power and site logistics. The 200-megawatt facility will anchor Asia's sovereign AI compute footprint, targeting government, research, and national security workloads that cannot route through hyperscaler clouds. The original 55-megawatt footprint was announced eighteen months ago; the triple-scale revision reflects demand acceleration in regional language models and defense-adjacent applications.
The deal answers two questions allocators have been pricing since late 2025. First, whether NVIDIA could secure memory supply outside Samsung and Micron at scale sufficient for Vera Rubin's bandwidth requirements. SK Hynix now holds named-contract status, reducing single-supplier risk and giving Seoul leverage in Asia-Pacific AI policy. Second, whether sovereign compute projects—outside the hyperscaler model—could attract private capital at venture scale. Brookfield's participation confirms infrastructure funds now view AI factories as annuity plays with twenty-year horizons, not tech bets. The 200-megawatt commitment implies roughly 1.5 gigawatts of cooling, transmission, and backup power infrastructure, much of it financed off Naver's balance sheet with Brookfield co-investment.
The memory lock matters more than the headline dollar figure. HBM4 is NVIDIA's stated bottleneck for Vera Rubin volume shipments in 2027. SK Hynix shipped 40% of global HBM3 in 2025; this deal extends that share into the next node and ties it to a sovereign buyer with pricing power. For allocators, that shifts the margin assumption: NVIDIA's gross margin on Vera Rubin now depends less on spot memory pricing and more on contracted supply at fixed escalators. The factory itself is secondary—it functions as a political anchor for Seoul's national AI strategy and a proving ground for Naver's on-premise enterprise software stack. But the HBM lock is structural.
Watch three follow-on events. First, Samsung's response; the company has 25% HBM3 share and will either match terms or shift volume toward hyperscalers. Second, Brookfield's next sovereign AI factory deal, likely in Canada or Australia, where similar power and political alignment exist. Third, Naver's enterprise software announcements in Q4 2026; the factory only scales if Naver can sell on-premise AI software that justifies 200 megawatts of continuous load. Early customers will likely be government ministries and defense contractors who cannot use public cloud.
The $500 billion figure aggregates investment across the consortium over eight years, not a single transaction. But the HBM4 supply lock is immediate, and the 200-megawatt factory is funded. Seoul now has the first sovereign AI factory with private capital, NVIDIA has memory supply for Vera Rubin, and Brookfield has a template it will replicate in four continents.
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For the principal
If Seoul can finance sovereign AI at 200MW scale, other middle powers will follow; position in infrastructure funds co-investing with national champions.
For the operator
NVIDIA's Vera Rubin margin profile just improved; HBM4 supply lock removes spot pricing risk and shifts gross margin upward by 150-200 basis points.
For the house
We are adding Brookfield Infrastructure and trimming hyperscaler exposure; sovereign AI factories are now fundable at scale, and power infrastructure is the choke point.
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