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Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billion — CEO Jensen Huang says AI ‘has reached its inflection point’

Nvidia revenue tops $96 billion as memory commitments soar to $160 billion…

It has become a tradition that every single quarter Nvidia reports record results that outpace all of its quarterly results before that. This Wednesday was no exception as the company posted revenue of $96.2 billion, which was up 106% year-over-year, due to rising demand for its AI hardware.

But such results come at a cost, as the company has to invest massively in its future. In the second quarter of its fiscal 2027, Nvidia had to commit to procuring memory worth up to $160 billion, which includes its memory supply pact with SK hynix.Go deeper with TH Premium: AI and data centers(Image tomshardware.com/pc-components/cooling/the-data-center-cooling-state-of-play-2025-liquid-cooling-is-on-the-rise-thermal-density-demands-skyrocket-in-ai-data-centers-and-tsmc-leads-with-direct-to-silicon-solutions?utm_source=edit-links&utm_medium=boxout&utm_term=datacenter” target=”_blank”>The data center cooling state of playThe custom AI ASIC state of play America’s AI chip rules keep changing — and the rest of the world is paying the priceGTC 2026: Ian Buck press Q&A transcript — VP of Hyperscale and HPC speaks out on shelving CPX and shipping LPU decode this yearDemand for data center CPUs has surged, and AI agents are responsibleNearly $100 billion revenue per quarterFor the second quarter of Nvidia’s FY2027, which ended on July 26, 2026, the company’s GAAP revenue hit a record $96.221 billion, up 18% quarter-over-quarter (QoQ) and 106% compared to the same quarter a year ago. Nvidia’s net income totaled $59.688 billion, up 126% year-over-year (YoY), as its gross margin reached 75.0%. Sales of Nvidia’s Compute & Networking hardware reached $88.299 billion, up 18% sequentially and 114% YoY, whereas sales of its graphics hardware hit $7.922 billion, up 12% sequentially and 46% year-over-year. (Image “AI is doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue. And demand is accelerating. […] We have a golden age of new AI labs and startups, multiple frontier labs scaling in parallel, a thriving open-model ecosystem and physical AI coming online […]. The AI infrastructure buildout is at full steam. Vera Rubin, now in full production, was built to power exactly this moment.”(Image 023 billion worth of equipment, an increase of 18% sequentially and a rise of 117% compared to the same quarter a year ago. Hyperscalers purchased $48.710 billion worth of hardware from Nvidia (up 102% YoY and 13% QoQ), while revenue from AI Clouds, Industrial and Enterprise climbed to $40.313 billion (up 138% YoY and 25% QoQ), an indicator that while hyperscalers still purchase more equipment from Nvidia, the ACIE segment is growing faster. Sales of Nvidia’s Edge Computing products were $7.198 billion (up 27% YoY and 13% QoQ), which means that sales of graphics products for PCs were strong despite shortages of GPUs and memory.Commitments total $279 billionNvidia expects demand for its products to remain strong in the coming years. To meet that demand, the company increased its long-term purchase commitments from $119 billion in Q1 FY2027 to $279 billion in the second quarter. Typically, Nvidia’s long-term supply commitments included pre-payments and commitments for wafer processing and advanced packaging at TSMC, as well as for HBM memory made by DRAM makers.