Amazon $AMZN and Google's $GOOG stakes in Anthropic could potentially be worth a combined $411 billion, if Anthropic’s IPO is priced at the top of its proposed range, according to calculations from Reuters.
Jensen Huang matters to Nvidia because he can take technologies his engineers believe are possible and turn them into products the whole company commits resources to, takes risks on, and has to deliver. That's why the supply chain gets such strong order visibility and is willing to keep up with aggressive spec upgrades. It also forces competitors to follow, which drives technology upgrades and supply chain investment across the entire AI industry.
Between the two, deciding on aggressive spec upgrades and making them happen is the harder part, compared with giving the supply chain order visibility. Huang doesn't need to be the person at Nvidia who knows the most about new technologies like HVDC, CPO/NPO, or CCL/PTFE. His value is that he weighs strategy, organization, technology, and supply chain all at once, then makes the call quickly and puts resources behind it.
Based on what's public so far, it looks hard for Huang to come out of this unscathed. If so, the practical move may be to gradually reduce Nvidia's reliance on Huang's personal decision-making while preparing a succession plan. Along the way, two things are worth watching to gauge where AI technology and investment are heading: whether Nvidia can keep developing new products and technologies as efficiently as before, and how competitors respond. Supply chain research will be an important basis for that judgment.
@zerohedge SpaceX has a chance of going about half the GW next year of actually usable compute.
“Actually usable” is an important metric. It takes us ~2 months working 24/7 to get a large compute cluster working reliably. I’d guess closer to 6 months for others.
Tesla FSD Supervised (now named Tesla Assisted Driving in Europe) has officially been approved in Finland, marking the 11th European country.
Countries in Europe that have approved it so far:
• Belgium
• Netherlands
• Denmark
• Lithuania
• Finland
• Estonia
• Slovenia
• Czechia
• Croatia
• Slovakia
• Latvia
You heard 10x demand for compute > supply from $CRWV today.
Hearing from $TSM today on Nikkei Forum:
"The demand on our leading node [most advanced] silicon is insatiable"
Customers "want to get [their] hands around any compute capability they can have. It's truly an insatiable environment."
Q: Whether AI demand was slowing?
A: "we did not see any sign of slowdown"
Q: How demand compared with TSMC’s ability to supply
A: "the demand actually is still far above our capability today to supply."
TSMC identified power and substrates as bottlenecks customers were encountering.
On the mid-to-high-50s annualized growth estimate for AI accelerator revenue from 2024 to 2029. Wei said "it probably will be higher."
Describing things as "insatiable" from a traditionally conservative company... doesn't quite look like any collapse in AI demand.