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Why Jensen Huang’s $500 billion AI financing plan runs into a big risk from China
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Jensen Huang built the world's most valuable company by pioneering the specialized computer chips behind the artificial intelligence boom.
Key facts
- Huawei, the dominant provider of Chinese AI chips, has been on the U.S. Commerce Department's Entity List since 2019
- To compensate at least partly for that risk, Emons estimates investors will treat GPUs as high-depreciation equipment rather than real estate, demanding high-yield returns in the 11% to 17% range
- In the meantime, Nvidia remains by far the leading supplier of AI chips in the U.S., with upwards of 75% market share by most estimates
- This week, Nvidia unveiled agreements with six of the world's largest asset managers, BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, KKR, Brookfield and Goldman Sachs
Summary
To keep his vision for the future within reach, the Nvidia founder is now attempting a different kind of engineering: convincing Wall Street investors that those chips are long-term financial assets akin to commercial real estate or toll roads. This week, Nvidia unveiled agreements with six of the world's largest asset managers, BlackRock, Blackstone, Apollo, KKR, Brookfield and Goldman Sachs. Key to his plan, which Huang announced during a CNBC segment flanked by the leaders of all six Wall Street firms, is one crucial assumption: that Nvidia's graphics processing units will hold their value over time, behaving more like traditional hard assets than fast-depreciating consumer electronics. "Nvidia's AI factory platform is an investable asset, an infrastructure asset," Huang said.