Nvidia leads chip rebound as software lags on infrastructure costs

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Every layer of the AI hardware stack is pricing itself higher to help fund the layer above it. The uncomfortable question sitting underneath all five names isn't who's benefiting — it's who ends up carrying the cost, and on whose balance sheet it lands.

NVDA — Automated rack assembly, not chip design, is defending gross margin. TSM — Price increases are effectively funding capacity expansion elsewhere. AMZN — Absorbing higher chip costs well before raising cloud prices. MU — An 11% rebound sits directly on top of oversupply risk. ORCL — Equity rallied while credit markets simultaneously flagged more risk.

Read together, pricing power and credit risk look like they're separating — concentrating at the chip layer on one side, and building quietly at the infrastructure layer that actually ships the hardware on the other.

If that bill eventually comes due, whose balance sheet is actually built to absorb it?

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