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There has been a lot of chatter around NVIDIA's peaking margins in recent days, with the bears using this transitory plateau - which itself is a function of the company's ongoing Blackwell production ramp-up - as a cudgel of sorts to declare vindication. Yet, a more nuanced perusal of NVIDIA's market dynamics can only yield one conclusion: the stock's bull case remains intact and pristine. Today, the investment firm William Blair is out with its bullish take on NVIDIA's prospects.
To wit, William Blair believes that NVIDIA has successfully expanded its Total Addressable Market (TAM) from a concentration within the GPU sphere worth just around $100 billion to the broader semiconductor and cloud markets, where the former is worth $800 billion and the latter $1.6 trillion to yield a cumulative TAM of ~$2.4 trillion.
What's more, William Blair now sees NVIDIA's FY 2025 revenue at a whopping $110 billion. To put this figure into context, the company's FY 2023 revenue was just $15 billion!
As a refresher, each GB200 CPU+GPU combo is priced between $60,000 and $70,000, while a single NVIDIA B100 AI accelerator costs between $30,000 and $35,000. What's more, the company is also selling an entire 72-chip AI rack at between $2 million and $3 million.
As an illustration of how robust the demand is for the company's products, Oracle recently announced a "zettascale" supercluster that "can scale up to 131,072 Blackwell GPUs with NVIDIA ConnectX-7 NICs for RoCEv2 or NVIDIA Quantum-2 InfiniBand networking to deliver an astounding 2.4 zettaflops of peak AI compute to the cloud."
Meanwhile, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang asserted at the recent Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology conference that, given the current
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