The new deal exposes one of the biggest risks facing Nvidia right now.
Nvidia ( NVDA ) has been perhaps the single biggest beneficiary of the boom in AI progress over the last three years. The company's market cap now tops $4.3 trillion, making it the most valuable company in the world. That's driven by continued demand for its market-leading graphics processing units (GPUs), which are essential for large language model training and inference .
Nvidia's financials show a massive company that's still growing sales and profits at a breakneck pace. But a couple of recent developments have put a question mark on how long Nvidia can continue to grow at a torrid pace. That includes a recent deal by one of its biggest customers with one of Nvidia's fiercest rivals.
The major risk