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Huang says Nvidia will sell twice as many chips next year, into a higher cost of capital

The volume guidance accelerated on the same day the AI complex absorbed its first rate rise in three years.

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What happened

Nvidia chief executive Jensen Huang said on Thursday that his company will double the number of chips it sells next year cnbc.com. He said he expects Nvidia to sell twice as many cnbc.com, with the volume of chips shipped and sold almost doubling in 2027 over 2026 tradingview.com. The company's own guidance is for 70% revenue growth thenextweb.comtipranks.com.

The stock took it well. Nvidia rose as much as 2.8% after Huang said chip sales could roughly double over the coming year tipranks.com, and was up around 2% even alongside an AI warning from the chief executive himself, who said developers should "hold it back" when a system is not ready tipranks.com. Huang confirmed that Vera Rubin had entered full production with orders from every major hyperscaler finance.yahoo.com.

Why it matters to investors

The demand case rests on a capital-spending number that is forecast, not contracted. Vera Rubin's order book is backed by a projected $1.3 trillion in hyperscaler capex finance.yahoo.com, and hyperscalers are projected to invest $1.3 trillion by 2027 intellectia.ai. Nvidia has made a $279 billion memory commitment, and the resulting shortages could drive prices up intellectia.ai, a warning the memory suppliers are now being valued against theglobeandmail.com.

That structure has just met a higher discount rate. Barchart's framing is that the financing circle linking Nvidia, OpenAI and Oracle, worth $745 billion, hit its first stress test in the Fed's rate hike barchart.com. Chairman Kevin Warsh did not mention AI spending once in his press conference and did not need to, because nearly every dollar hyperscalers have poured in is borrowed against expectations set when money was cheaper barchart.com.

What to watch

Watch the gap between units and revenue. Doubling unit volume while guiding to 70% revenue growth implies price or mix moving against the company thenextweb.comtipranks.com, which is a different story from the one the headline tells cnbc.com. Europe, on the company's account, buys on the open market rather than under the arrangements that govern other regions thenextweb.com, so the geographic mix is part of that question too.

Watch the funding channel too. The bull case treats Vera Rubin's production ramp and hyperscaler orders as evidence the cycle has further to run finance.yahoo.comfinance.yahoo.com, while the bear case is that capex guidance is a projection that can be revised and the borrowing behind it cannot barchart.comintellectia.ai. Huang's own caution on releasing systems before they are ready sits oddly alongside a doubling of shipments, and reconciling the two is the work for the next quarter tipranks.com.

Sources

  1. cnbc.com: Jensen Huang says Nvidia will sell twice as many chips next year - CNBC (2026-09-17)
  2. tradingview.com: Jensen Huang Just Gave Nvidia Investors a Reason to Look Past Blackwell - TradingView (2026-09-17)
  3. thenextweb.com: Nvidia's Huang expects to sell twice as many chips next year - TNW (2026-09-17)
  4. tipranks.com: Nvidia Stock (NVDA) Rises as Jensen Huang Expects Chip Sales to Double - TipRanks.com (2026-09-17)
  5. tipranks.com: Nvidia Stock (NVDA) Jumps 2% Even as CEO Jensen Huang Agrees with AI Warnings (2026-09-17)
  6. finance.yahoo.com: Nvidia Has Built an AI Empire. Here's What It Could Be Worth - Yahoo Finance (2026-09-17)
  7. intellectia.ai: Micron's Growth Potential Amid AI Memory Boom | Intellectia.AI (2026-09-17)
  8. theglobeandmail.com: Micron vs. Sandisk: Which AI Memory Stock Benefits More From Nvidia's $279 Billion Warning? (2026-09-17)
  9. barchart.com: Nvidia , OpenAI, and Oracle's $745B Financing Circle Just Hit Its First Stress Test: A Fed Rate Hike (2026-09-17)
  10. finance.yahoo.com: Jensen Huang Just Gave Nvidia Investors a Reason to Look Past Blackwell (2026-09-17)