NVIDIA’s Q4 FY26 is not just an earnings report. It is the most granular real-time readout available on the health, direction, and acceleration of the AI supercycle. Every dollar flowing through NVIDIA’s P&L is a direct signal of how fast the world’s computing infrastructure is being rebuilt.
$68.1 billion in quarterly revenue. Up 73% year over year. The largest quarter-over-quarter dollar growth in the company’s history.
$68.1B revenue, 75% gross margin, $34.9B free cash flow — margins expanding during the largest product ramp in computing history
These are margins and cash flows that would be extraordinary for a pure software company, let alone one shipping physical silicon at this scale. Margins are expanding during the largest product ramp in computing history.
“Compute Equals Revenues” — The New Operating Equation
The paradigm shift: compute moved from cost center to revenue engine. $660-690B in hyperscaler CapEx committed for 2026.
Jensen Huang repeated one phrase multiple times: “Compute equals revenues.” This is the new industrial equation. Pre-AI, compute was a cost center. In the AI world, every watt of GPU capacity translates into token generation, which directly translates into revenue.
If compute = revenue, then cutting CapEx = cutting future revenue capacity. The five largest cloud providers have committed $660-690B in 2026 CapEx: Amazon ~$200B, Google ~$185B, Meta ~$135B, Microsoft ~$120B+, Oracle ~$50B.
The Compute Supply Chain — Cascading Constraints
Five layers of cascading constraints — every solution at one layer creates new bottlenecks at another
The constraint isn’t demand — it’s supply. A five-layer constraint stack, each limiting the one above:
Energy: The ultimate binding variable. 19 GW gap between demand and available power.
Semiconductors: TSMC at maximum capacity. ASML produces only 40-50 EUV machines annually.
Networking: $11B/quarter. NVLink fabric is now as supply-constrained as compute silicon.
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