By Matthew Heimer
Publication Date: 2025-11-20 00:30:00
Nvidia, the dominant maker of the chips that power the AI boom, has been the most valuable company in the world for most of the past year. Based on the company’s remarks during its third-quarter 2025 earnings call on Wednesday, it could soon be one of the world’s biggest companies by revenue, too—a stunning development for a company that had under $10 billion in annual revenue less than a decade ago.
Nvidia pleased investors with its latest earnings announcement: The company’s Q3 revenues of $57 billion beat expectations, as did its earnings and its forecast for Q4, and its share price jumped 5% in after-hours trading.
But arguably even more eye-popping was its forecast for the next 14 months. In a conference call after the earnings report was released, Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said that Nvidia sees “visibility to a half a trillion dollars in Blackwell and Rubin revenue from the start of this year through the end of calendar year 2026.” Blackwell and Rubin are two of Nvidia’s families of AI chips.
Data-center revenue, the category in which Blackwell and Rubin fall, accounted for 90% of Nvidia’s Q3 revenue, with the rest coming from categories including gaming GPUs and chips for robotics and automotive products.
Nvidia is now forecasting roughly $203 billion in total revenue for 2025. In response to an analyst’s question, Kress confirmed that she expected about $350 billion in Blackwell and Rubin revenue to come in the 14 months between now and…
