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Dylan Patel

Founder and Chief Analyst, SemiAnalysis
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Half right · 50%We think the three large AWS campuses will meaningfully contribute to AWS' top line by the end of 2025 and jack up growth above the 20% YoY threshold.Infrastructure & Telecoms · made Sep 2025 · due Dec 2025

What happened. AWS segment sales were $35.6bn in Q4 2025, up 24% year on year (Q3 2025: $33.0bn, up 20%). 'Above the 20% threshold' is scored as a point forecast at 20% under the threshold ruling. Q4 2025 growth was 24%, 4 points out, inside the 5-point band. The direction was right; the overshoot costs points. Sources: ir.aboutamazon.com.

Source: Amazon's AI Resurgence: AWS & Anthropic's Multi-Gigawatt Trainium Expansion (SemiAnalysis)

Specific · short-range · counts 0.5Forecast 20% · actual 24%High confidence
Right · 100%A hundred something billion dollars of revenue for NVIDIA last year, 200 something billion this year, and if next year, it could nearly double again.Infrastructure & Telecoms · made Feb 2025 · due Dec 2025

What happened. Nvidia reported fiscal 2026 revenue (February 2025 to January 2026, the nearest match to 'this year') of $215.9bn, up 65%, in its first full-year release on 25 February 2026. '200 something billion' is a range ($200-299bn). The actual $215.9bn is inside it, so Right; forecast_value is set to the actual, following the range convention. Sources: nvidianews.nvidia.com.

Source: Lex Fridman Podcast #459: DeepSeek, China, OpenAI, NVIDIA, xAI, TSMC, Stargate, and AI Megaclusters (transcript)

Specific · counts 1Forecast $215.9bn · actual $215.9bnHigh confidence
Mostly right · 75%Going forward, we expect AMD's share of x86 server units to increase from 13.9% in Q2 2022 to 21.2% in Q4 2023.Infrastructure & Telecoms · made Oct 2022 · due Dec 2023

What happened. Mercury Research put AMD's x86 server CPU unit share at 23.1% in Q4 2023 (published February 2024). 21.2% against an actual 23.1% is 1.9 points (8.2%) under: outside 5%, inside the 10% band. He called the share gain but under-shot it. Sources: wccftech.com, profesionalreview.com.

Source: 2023 Datacenter Outlook – AMD and Intel Revenue, ASP, and Units – Genoa Ramp Details (SemiAnalysis)

Specific · counts 1Forecast 21.2% · actual 23.1%High confidence
Still to fall due4 predictions
  1. Dec 2026But by next year, you'll have 500,000 to 700,000 GPU clusters.Infrastructure & Telecoms · made Feb 2025 · source
  2. Dec 2026One gigawatt, one site in 2026. But then you have a number of others. You have five different locations, some with multiple sites, some with single sites.Infrastructure & Telecoms · made Oct 2024 · source
  3. Dec 2030We believe AI will propel datacenters to use 4.5% of global energy generation by 2030.Infrastructure & Telecoms · made Mar 2024 · source
  4. Dec 2026Global Datacenter Critical IT power demand will surge from 49 Gigawatts (GW) in 2023 to 96 GW by 2026, of which AI will consume ~40 GW.Infrastructure & Telecoms · made Mar 2024 · source
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