Wednesday, February 18, 2026

META / Nvidia Partership Sucking All The Oxygen Out Of The AI Arena -- But There's A Whole Lot More -- Lines Are Being Drawn -- February 18, 2026

Locator: 50004TECH.

Investing:

  • knowledge is power;
  • MOJO is fleeting;
  • for Mag 7: FOMO has flipped to FOOI 
  • Mag 7 stronger than ever.

FOMO: the META / Nvidia partnership is sucking all the oxygen out of the AI tech arena.

Amazing.

Key takeaways, if you don't remember anything else:

  • META's LDCs in this partnership will be the first to launch Nvidia's high end Hopper Grace chips; being released earlier than expected;
  • META will use millions of Nvidia chips;
  • direct assault on Intel and AMD;
  • META: $600 billion through 2028; 30 new LDCs in Texas, Louisiana, and Ohio

Partnerships:

  • META and Nvidia
  • Google Gemini and Broadcom
  • Apple and Broadcom

AWS?

AMD?  


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