At GTC Washington, Huang said Nvidia had shipped 6 million Blackwell GPUs over the previous four quarters, the baseline the later chip-sales projections build on.
ESTIMATED50% CONFIDENCETrendForce[1] (29 October 2025) reports a projection through 2026; the pin's 1 January 2026 start is nominal.
Nvidia projected 20 million units of Blackwell and Rubin generation GPUs, against 4 million of the prior Hopper generation, alongside about $500 billion in combined sales.
At GTC 2026, Huang said he expects purchase orders for Blackwell and Vera Rubin to reach $1 trillion through 2027, up from the $500 billion outlook given the previous year.
CONFIRMED85% CONFIDENCEHappened as dated, per NVIDIA's[1][3] release: "TAIPEI, Taiwan, June 01, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA GTC Taipei -- NVIDIA today announced the NVIDIA Isaac GR00T Reference Humanoid Robot."
At GTC Taipei, NVIDIA announced the first open humanoid reference design: a Unitree H2 Plus chassis with Sharpa Wave five-finger tactile hands for the body, and Jetson Thor compute plus the open Isaac GR00T stack for the brain, aimed at academic robotics labs.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCETSMC's[1][2] release, datelined "HSINCHU, Taiwan, R.O.C., Jul. 16, 2026", says TSMC "today announced" its second-quarter results, and the call transcript TSMC posts gives "EVENT DATE/TIME: JULY 16, 2026 / 6:00AM GMT" (2 p.m. Taiwan time, as the FTNN report of TSMC's schedule says: "16日下午2時").
TSMC reported second-quarter revenue of US$40.20 billion, up 33.7% from a year earlier, a 67.7% gross margin and record net income of NT$706.56 billion, guided Q3 revenue to US$44.6-45.8 billion and raised its 2026 capital budget to US$60-64 billion.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCENvidia[2] confirmed on July 21, 2026 that 'systems are now shipping to customers'.
Nvidia said its Vera Rubin NVL72 rack systems are now shipping to cloud providers and system makers, with 288 GB of HBM4 per GPU and about five times Blackwell's inference performance.
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEThe release is dated August 17, 2026 ("NVIDIA[1] announced that it has secured land, power and shell (LPS) capacity through a partnership with SB Energy[5]"), and NVIDIA's 8-K says it announced the partnership and entered the residual value guaranties on August 17, 2026; the release gives no time, so the pin is all-day.
NVIDIA guarantees leases on about 4.25 GW of AI factory capacity at SB Energy's PORTS-Pike campus on the old Portsmouth uranium-enrichment plant in Pike County, Ohio, with OpenAI as tenant and NVIDIA's exposure capped at $105 billion.
CONFIRMED88% CONFIDENCECNBC's[1] 26 August 2026 coverage of Nvidia's earnings call reports the guidance.
On its August earnings call Nvidia gave its first-ever year-ahead forecast: about 70% revenue growth in the fiscal year ending January 2028, roughly $673 billion, limited by supply rather than demand.
CONFIRMED90% CONFIDENCEThe release is dated "August 26, 2026" and "today reported revenue for the second quarter"; GlobeNewswire's[2] copy is stamped "August 26, 2026 16:20 ET", after the close (SEC[3] 8-K accepted 20:21 UTC).
NVIDIA's revenue more than doubled from a year earlier to a record $96.2 billion for the quarter ended 26 July 2026, with Data Center at $89.0 billion, and it guided the third quarter to $108 billion.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEJensen Huang's post "NVIDIA[1] to Acquire Hugging Face" is dated September 3, 2026 and timestamped 2026-09-03T11:56:49Z ("I'm excited to announce that NVIDIA has agreed to acquire Hugging Face"); NVIDIA's 8-K says the definitive agreement itself was signed on September 2, 2026.
NVIDIA is buying Hugging Face, the open-model hub used by more than 18 million developers, for $12,930,300,000, and says the platform will stay open to other chips, clouds and model makers.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCEThe release is dated September 10, 2026 ("Palantir Technologies Inc. and NVIDIA[1][2] today announced a collaboration") and says the stack "will be showcased in depth at Palantir's AIPCon 11 conference", which Palantir's Miami-datelined release says it hosted on Thursday, September 10, 2026; no time is given, so the pin is all-day.
NVIDIA and Palantir pair custom Nemotron open models with Palantir's Ontology, Foundry and AIP to run NVIDIA's own supply chain, securing the 1.3 million parts in each Vera Rubin rack, and offer the stack to other industries.
CONFIRMED84% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[1][2][6] newsroom dates the release 'September 14, 2026' ('NVIDIA today announced'), and SiliconANGLE's[4] report stamped 09:00 EDT that day says 'The announcement came at this week's IEEE Quantum Week 2026 event that kicked off in Toronto today.'
An open-source orchestration layer added to NVIDIA's CUDA-Q lets researchers model error-correction codes, algorithms and qubit hardware together; Fermilab cut fault-tolerant design work from five months to three weeks with it.
CONFIRMED82% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[1][5] blog post is published 2026-09-16T13:00:33Z and says "Today, Emerald AI, Google and NVIDIA announced the launch of the AI Energy Management Alliance"; MT Newswires via Yahoo[2] Finance also reports the launch as Wednesday.
A coalition for AI data centers that throttle their grid draw when the power system is stressed, in exchange for faster and larger grid connections; its backers say flexibility could unlock 100 GW on the existing US grid.
CONFIRMED86% CONFIDENCEMLCommons[4] published the MLPerf Inference v6.1 results on 16 September 2026 - its GlobeNewswire release is datelined 'SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 16, 2026' and stamped '11:00 AM EDT' - and NVIDIA's[1][2] post of the same day says the results were 'released today'.
In its first peer-reviewed benchmark, NVIDIA's Vera Rubin NVL72 rack posted up to 3.7x the throughput of GB300 NVL72 on Qwen3-VL and 2.5x on DeepSeek-R1, submitted in the preview category of MLCommons' MLPerf Inference v6.1 round.
Jensen Huang told reporters at a summit with King Charles III in Scotland that he expects Nvidia to sell twice as many chips next year as this year, citing AI demand in almost every country. Nvidia does not disclose total chip counts.
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[1][2][5] blog post is published 2026-09-21T18:00:07Z and says "NVIDIA is introducing NVIDIA DSX Ready"; ServeTheHome[3]: "The DSX Ready program is live as of today."
A qualification program for partner products that meet NVIDIA's DSX AI factory reference design, launching with battery storage from Hitachi Energy, LG Energy Solution and Tesla and coolant distribution units from LG Electronics, LiquidStack and Vertiv.
CONFIRMED83% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[1][2][3] post of September 22, 2026 (published 12:00 UTC, 8:00 a.m. in Toronto) says Isaac ROS 5.0 was 'released today at the ROSCon conference in Toronto, Canada'; NVIDIA's ROSCon page puts the conference at the Sheraton Centre Toronto Hotel on September 22-24.
NVIDIA's GPU-accelerated ROS packages add AI agent skills, agent-ready documentation and ROS 2 Lyrical support, released at ROSCon in Toronto for a community of nearly 1.3 million ROS users.
SCHEDULED81% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[1][2][3][4][6] GTC Berlin page states "NVIDIA GTC Berlin 2026 October 20–22, 2026" ("Keynote October 21 | Workshops October 20"), and its FAQ breaks the programme out as "Training Workshops: Tuesday, October 20 ... Conference: Wednesday, October 21–Thursday, October 22".
NVIDIA's European GTC comes to Berlin on 20-22 October 2026, opening with Jensen Huang's keynote at the Tempodrom on 21 October and two days of sessions, labs and exhibits at STATION-Berlin.
SCHEDULED80% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[2][3] own Q2 call transcript: "Our earnings call to discuss the results of our third quarter of fiscal 2027 is scheduled for November 17." The 2 p.m. PT time is NVIDIA's standing call time (events page) and is not yet confirmed; 17 Nov is a Tuesday, so Wednesday 18 Nov is the other likely day if it moves.
NVIDIA reports its third quarter of fiscal 2027 against its own guide of $108 billion in revenue, the quarter in which Vera Rubin is expected to reach about a fifth of Data Center sales.
Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC 20004, United StatesNVIDIA·…
SCHEDULED82% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[1][2][4] GTC Washington, D.C. page states "November 30–December 3, 2026" ("Keynote Dec. 1 | Workshops Nov. 30") and "Tuesday, December 1 | 2 p.m. ET" for the keynote; its FAQ repeats the schedule.
NVIDIA's GTC returns to Washington from 30 November to 3 December 2026, centred on the Ronald Reagan Building, with Jensen Huang's keynote on 1 December at 2 p.m. ET.
San Jose McEnery Convention Center, 408 South Almaden Avenue, San Jose, California 95110, United StatesNVIDIA·…
SCHEDULED77% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[1][2][3][5] poster call says "NVIDIA GTC is returning to San Jose, CA on March 15–18, 2027" and that "The event will take place between Sunday, March 14 and Thursday, March 18", so the pin spans 14-18 March (the GTC page itself says "NVIDIA GTC 2027 March 15–18"); no venue is named for 2027, so the pin sits at the McEnery Convention Center, GTC San Jose's venue in 2026.
NVIDIA's flagship AI conference returns to San Jose on 15-18 March 2027, with posters, sessions and training across agentic AI, AI infrastructure and physical AI.
ESTIMATED75% CONFIDENCENVIDIA's[3] 8-K says "The transaction is expected to close in the first half of 2027, subject to the satisfaction or waiver of customary closing conditions, including receipt of required regulatory approvals"; the span is dated at its last day, 30 June 2027.
NVIDIA expects to complete its roughly $11.9 billion purchase of Hugging Face in the first half of 2027, once regulators approve the deal.