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The demand signal at Nvidia (NVDA) carries a caveat worth reading carefully: the chipmaker is effectively writing checks to its own customers, enabling them to purchase more silicon than their own balance sheets would support.
The practice is being labeled circular financing. The mechanism behind the orders is not. How the circuit runs The structure is simple.
Nvidia extends capital to customers; customers direct that capital back as chip orders; Nvidia records the revenue.
What the arrangement does is expand the effective purchasing power of buyers who could not reach the same order size without outside support. That gap is the operative concern for anyone reading the demand picture.
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