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NVIDIA Corporation
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What changed
The risk factors in the latest annual report, against the year before
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- Commercial arrangements expose us to counterparty risks, which may negatively impact our business, financial condition, or results of operations.
- We have entered into an intellectual property license arrangement with Groq, Inc., or Groq, that required significant, nonrefundable payments.
- our customers’ and partners’ ability to secure capital and energy and to build complex datacenter infrastructure timely; and
- The availability of data centers, energy, and capital to support the buildout of NVIDIA AI infrastructure by our customers and partners is crucial, and any shortage of these and other necessary resources could impact our future revenue and financial performance.
- We are increasing our U.S.-based manufacturing and investing in specialized equipment and processes to support domestic production.
- failures of counterparties, including financial institutions and insurers, asset impairments, and declines in the value of our financial instruments.
- Our investments in companies could create volatility and fluctuations in our results.
- We are finalizing an investment and partnership agreement with OpenAI.
- Our investment portfolio contains industry sector concentration risks, and a decline in any one or multiple industry sectors could increase our impairment losses.
- We have entered and may in the future enter into commercial arrangements, including long-term capacity purchase obligations and financial guarantees, and have been asked to offer financing arrangements to support our customers’ and partners’ buildout of datacenter infrastructure.
- In July 2023, the USG also informed us of an additional licensing requirement for a subset of A100 and H100 products destined to certain customers and other regions, including some countries in the Middle East.
- In April 2025, the USG informed us that it requires a license for export to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) and D:5 countries, or to companies headquartered or with an ultimate parent therein, of our H20 integrated circuits and any other circuits achieving the H20’s memory bandwidth, interconnect bandwidth, or combination thereof.
- In August 2025, the USG granted licenses that would allow us to ship certain H20 products to certain China-based customers.
- In February 2026, the USG granted a license that would allow us to ship small amounts of H200 products to specific China-based customers.
- In the event that we are able to sell licensed products into the China market, we may not be able to pass along all or any of the tariff to our customers, and may be subject to litigation, increased costs, and a harmed competitive position.
- The export controls applicable to China are complex and address a variety of parameters, including the total processing performance of a chip, the “performance density” of a chip, the interconnect bandwidth of a chip, and the memory bandwidth of a chip.
- In addition to controls targeting D:1, D:4 and D:5 countries, the USG has also imposed worldwide export controls impacting our products, and may impose additional controls in the future.
- In January 2025, the USG published the AI Diffusion IFR in the Federal Register.
- In May 2025, the USG announced that it would rescind the AI Diffusion IFR and implement a replacement rule.
- Given the increasing strategic importance of AI and rising geopolitical tensions, the USG has changed and may again change the export control rules at any time and further subject a wider range of our products to export restrictions and licensing requirements, negatively impacting our business and financial results.
- For example, the USG already imposed license conditions that limit the ability of foreign firms to create and offer as a service large-scale GPU clusters, such as imposing license conditions on the use of products to be exported to certain countries, and may impose additional conditions such as requiring chip tracking and throttling mechanisms that could disable or impair GPUs if certain events, including unauthorized system configuration, use, or location, are detected.
- Open-source foundation models are rapidly growing in popularity with developers worldwide.
- Export controls restricting our ability to sell data center GPUs may also negatively impact demand for our networking products used in servers containing our GPUs.
- Export controls have and are likely in the future to have a disproportionate impact on NVIDIA and may disadvantage us against certain of our competitors that sell chips that are outside the scope of such control.
- As a result, export controls have in the past and may in the future negatively impact demand for our products and services not only in China, but also in other markets, such as Europe, Latin America, and Southeast Asia.
- The increasingly complex export controls impose complex and burdensome compliance obligations on our partners, suppliers, and customers.
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- On October 23, 2023, the USG informed us that the licensing requirements were effective immediately for shipments of our A100, A800, H100, H800, and L40S products (removing the grace period granted by the official rule).
- On January 15, 2025, the USG published the “AI Diffusion” IFR in the Federal Register.
- Unless a license exception is available, the worldwide licensing requirements will apply to the following NVIDIA products, and any others we develop that meet the characteristics of 3A090.a or 4A090.a, including but not limited to: A100, A800, H100, H200, H800, B100, B200, GB200, L4, L40S, and RTX 6000 Ada.
- The AI Diffusion IFR would divide the world into three tiers, relegating most countries to “Tier 2” status.
- The AI Diffusion IFR would reduce the market for U.S.-designed and manufactured computing products and services, by expressly limiting exports, reexports, and transfers of covered products to Tier 2 countries and companies in Tier 1 countries that are either headquartered in Tier 2, or have an ultimate parent headquartered in a Tier 2 country.
- The AI Diffusion IFR would limit access to the market for IT services and computing infrastructure, by favoring a select number of government-approved firms that achieve UVEU status.
- The AI Diffusion IFR would encourage our customers to invest in alternatives that are not affected by USG regulations, including foreign competition.
- The AI Diffusion IFR would increase our and our customers’ costs of doing business, creating compliance challenges and risks, and impact our supply and distribution chains, which will be subject to new compliance burdens and related extraterritorial regulatory obligations.
- The AI Diffusion IFR would expose U.S. providers and the U.S. industry to an enhanced risk of retaliation from other countries, in the form of tariffs, import/export controls, or other regulatory actions.
- The AI Diffusion IFR’s licensing requirement could impact our ability to complete development of products in a timely manner, support existing customers using covered products, or supply customers with covered products outside the impacted regions, and may require us to transition certain operations out of one or more of the identified countries.
- Following these 2022 export controls, we transitioned some operations, including certain testing, validation, and supply and distribution operations out of China and Hong Kong.
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Filings with the SEC
Every recent report
| Filed | Form | What it is | Period or event |
|---|---|---|---|
| May 12, 2026 | DEF 14A | Proxy statement | Jun 24, 2026 |
| May 13, 2025 | DEF 14A | Proxy statement | Jun 25, 2025 |
| May 14, 2024 | DEF 14A | Proxy statement | Jun 26, 2024 |
| May 8, 2023 | DEF 14A | Proxy statement | — |
| Apr 19, 2022 | DEF 14A | Proxy statement | Jun 2, 2022 |
| Apr 19, 2022 | DEF 14A | Proxy statement | Jun 2, 2022 |
| Apr 23, 2021 | DEF 14A | Proxy statement | Apr 23, 2021 |
The SEC's list of NVIDIA Corporation's recent filings reaches back to September 17, 2020; registration statements and other prospectus filings aren't shown. Every filing on EDGAR
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