Read the guidance again, slowly: a single NVIDIA quarter now generates $81.6 billion in revenue. The company's most recent quarterly report, filed 2026-05-20 and indexed by EdgarBeast, reports that figure for the three months ended April 26, 2026 — up from $44.1 billion in the year-ago quarter. The XBRL facts are tagged in the 10-Q on sec.gov.
A near-doubling of quarterly revenue year over year is the kind of number that retroactively justifies a lot of capex elsewhere. Every hyperscaler dollar spent on accelerators shows up, eventually, on a line like this one. The receipt for the buildout is NVIDIA's income statement, and this quarter it is emphatic.
R&D held its pace too: $6.3 billion for the quarter, up from $4.0 billion a year earlier. NVIDIA is not letting the lab fall behind the order book — the same discipline visible in the annual filing shows up quarter to quarter.
The caveat is the same as always: this is total company revenue, not an AI-only cut, and a single quarter is a single quarter. But the disclosed number is the number. For the primary record, the NVIDIA 10-Q on sec.gov governs; EdgarBeast surfaced the XBRL facts.