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NVDA directional thesis

Locked up the majority of leading-edge wafers, memory and boards by committing earlier than Google or Amazon, so it holds the cards while everyone else scrambles for capacity.

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“who holds the card is the infra providers for charging margin... as you go upstream to, oh, well, who has access to all the memory and logic capacity? Well, it's, it's NVIDIA for the most part. They've signed a lot of long-term contracts.”
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