NVIDIA (NVDA): AI spending can rise while NVIDIA loses some control over the customer

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We see a possible split inside the AI trade. The important change is bargaining power. More AI use does not automatically mean every new workload must use the same supplier.

If a customer can move suitable work onto its own chip, it may gain more choice over what it buys and what it pays. That can affect investors' expectations about a supplier before a large change appears in revenue. We are treating this as a short market reaction, rather than a claim that NVIDIA's business is failing. Microsoft describes a production custom-chip programme and a larger rollout next year.

That is a real competitive development, but the timing prevents us from treating next year's capacity as today's lost sales.

That is evidence for a pullback inside an upward trend, rather than a confirmed trend reversal. The practical question is whether buyers quickly recover the old range.

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New searches still find the same Microsoft deployment and NVIDIA infrastructure announcements. Those plans do not prove lost NVIDIA orders. We also checked NVIDIA's own 12 October ecosystem announcement.

It still lists Microsoft among collaborating firms, so Maia cannot be treated as proof that NVIDIA has lost that customer. NVIDIA's earlier decline was smaller than the semiconductor ETF's decline by about 1.40 percentage points.

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• Microsoft’s own AI chips may give it more choice of suppliers. That could put short-term pressure on NVIDIA’s share price, even while AI demand grows.

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• The stronger longer-term trend could bring buyers back.

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Microsoft scaling begins in 2027; total AI demand can support several suppliers.

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A large buyer is designing more of the computing system itself, while NVIDIA shares and the…

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We see a possible split inside the AI trade.

Forecast prepared: 13 Oct, 09:27 SGT Published by OTR: 13 Oct 2026, 09:40 SGT

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