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NVIDIA allegedly stockpiling large inventory and securing massive manufacturing commitments.
Friday, November 7, 2025 at 07:34 AM
A supply chain watcher claims that NVIDIA has accumulated over $30 billion in raw materials inventory and has entered into over $50 billion in long-term commitments for manufacturing capacity and components.
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In a significant move to secure its dominance in the AI chip market, NVIDIA has dramatically increased its manufacturing and supply commitments. According to recent financial filings, the company's total future purchase obligations surged to $45.8 billion as of July 2025, a sharp increase from $30.8 billion at the end of January 2025. This aggressive strategy is aimed at locking in scarce, long-lead-time components and manufacturing capacity, such as HBM memory and CoWoS packaging, to support the massive demand for its current and next-generation GPUs.
This forward-looking procurement has been matched by a substantial increase in physical inventory, which grew to nearly $15 billion by July 2025 from $10.1 billion six months earlier. While this build-up de-risks NVIDIA's ability to meet its massive order backlog, it also elevates balance sheet risk. The strategy ties up significant capital and increases exposure to potential write-downs if demand unexpectedly slows or shifts, a risk previously realized with a $4.5 billion charge related to chips impacted by U.S. export controls.
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