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Research edition 01Fixed dataset · 2026-07-12 UTCNot live data

Company file

NVIDIA

The clearest disclosed example of a fabless balance sheet carrying large manufacturing commitments alongside comparatively modest owned PP&E.

ClassificationFabless designer and systems platform
Current verdict

High evidence coverage. Manufacturing, cloud, investment, and facility-guarantee exposures must remain separate.

Structured snapshot

Reported exposure

2026-04-26
Commitments$119B

Manufacturing, supply, and capacity commitments

Near-term amount$95B

Payable during remainder of fiscal 2027

Annual CapEx$6.042B

FY2026 purchases of property, equipment and intangibles

Commitment intensity55.1%

Ending commitment stock ÷ annual revenue

Evidence. Verified records · Grade A · S01 · S02 · last verified 2026-07-12 UTC dataset.

Comparability. Latest commitment balance is one quarter after revenue, CapEx, and PP&E periods. Separate commitment categories must not be added to manufacturing as a single fab total.

Governed evidence

Claims in the registry

12 records
C002 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA disclosed $119 billion of manufacturing, supply, and capacity commitments at April 26, 2026.

Claim period
At 2026-04-26
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Keep separate from cloud, investment, and other vendor commitments.

Open source
C003 Registry state: Verified

Of NVIDIA’s $119 billion manufacturing, supply, and capacity commitments, $95 billion was payable during the remainder of fiscal 2027.

Claim period
Remainder of fiscal 2027
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Use the filing’s fiscal-period wording.

Open source
C004 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA reported $10.383 billion of PP&E at January 25, 2026.

Claim period
At 2026-01-25
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Period differs by one quarter from the $119B commitment balance.

Open source
C005 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA spent about $6.042 billion on property, equipment, and intangible assets in fiscal 2026.

Claim period
Fiscal 2026
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Label the exact cash-flow line rather than implying all spending was fab-related.

Open source
C006 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA reported $25.797 billion of inventory at April 26, 2026.

Claim period
At 2026-04-26
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Current point-in-time value.

Open source
C007 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA reported a $3.121 billion liability for excess inventory purchase obligations at April 26, 2026.

Claim period
At 2026-04-26
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Use exact filing definition.

Open source
C008 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA recorded a $4.5 billion fiscal 2026 charge associated with excess H20 inventory and purchase obligations after export restrictions.

Claim period
Fiscal 2026
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Do not repeat the earlier $5.5B estimate as the actual charge.

Open source
C009 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA reported $7.2 billion of provisions for inventory and excess purchase obligations in fiscal 2026.

Claim period
Fiscal 2026
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Annual figure, not solely H20.

Open source
C010 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA disclosed approximately $3.5 billion of partner-facility lease guarantees in exchange for warrants.

Claim period
Fiscal 2026 filing period
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Not a wafer-fab commitment.

Open source
C011 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA’s April 2026 filing separately disclosed $30 billion of cloud-service commitments.

Claim period
At 2026-04-26
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Keep separate from semiconductor manufacturing.

Open source
C012 Registry state: Verified

NVIDIA’s April 2026 filing separately disclosed $27 billion of investment commitments.

Claim period
At 2026-04-26
Source date
2026
Source quality
A
Last verified

Caveat. Keep separate from semiconductor manufacturing.

Open source
C028 Registry state: Corroborated

NVIDIA agreed to purchase up to $6.3 billion of unsold CoreWeave cloud capacity through 2032.

Claim period
Agreement through 2032
Source date
2025-09-15
Source quality
C
Last verified

Registry exception. The supplied registry labels this claim Corroborated but provides one source. Independent corroboration remains pending; the original state is preserved rather than silently rewritten.

Caveat. Cloud capacity, not fab capacity.

Open source

Capacity-control audit

Ten factors, deliberately not scored.

The supplied pack contains no canonical company scores. Each factor remains “not rated” until an evidence record and scoring rationale are published.

  1. Owned critical capacityNot rated
  2. Contract duration and firmnessNot rated
  3. Supplier diversificationNot rated
  4. Second-source readinessNot rated
  5. Packaging and memory controlNot rated
  6. Geographic resilienceNot rated
  7. Customer matchingNot rated
  8. Downside absorptionNot rated
  9. Process or product co-optimizationNot rated
  10. Disclosure qualityNot rated