Jensen Huang explains why Nvidia will grow an astounding 70% next year
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- 23372
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- summarized
- Published
- 11 Sep 2026, 5:51 AM
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- 11 Sep 2026, 6:51 AM
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- TechCrunch
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- technology
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- https://techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/jensen-huang-explains-why-nvidia-will-grow-an-astounding-70-next-year/
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- Score
- 3.5
- Created
- 11 Sep 2026, 6:52 AM
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- Audience
- ai-ml-learnerssaas-startup-founders
What happened
At the Goldman Sachs Communacopia conference, Jensen Huang reiterated Nvidia's 70% year-over-year revenue growth guidance for next year, which would take revenue from ~$400B to ~$680B. He framed Nvidia not as a chip company but a full-system provider, noting a single GPU system now costs $8.5M, consumes 250,000 kW, and contains 2 million parts, with 27% month-over-month sales growth for the Grace CPU + Blackwell GPU combo.
Why it matters
This is a CEO selling his own growth story at an investor conference, not independent reporting. The only actionable detail for builders is the scale of Nvidia's system pricing ($8.5M per GPU system) and power draw (250,000 kW), which signals that frontier AI compute is consolidating into hyperscale buyers — if you're not one of them, your GPU access strategy depends on cloud resellers, not direct procurement.
Discussion angle
What does $8.5M-per-system, 250kW GPU pricing mean for Malaysian startups and builders who will never buy directly — are we over-indexed on GPU-dependent architectures when the cost floor keeps rising?