Amazon seeks to offload $8bn of Nvidia chips to investors
Amazon is reportedly seeking to offload $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors as its AI spending accelerates. The transaction would shift part of Amazon’s infrastructure financing burden and could reshape how investors assess its capital intensity.
File photo · Amazon’s Spheres, Seattle · May 2022 · Sea Cow · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source & licenseThe Financial Times reports that Amazon is seeking to sell $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors. The move is aimed at improving the technology group’s balance sheet health as spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure rises.
Amazon’s latest annual figures show $716.9 billion of revenue in fiscal 2025, up 12.4% year over year, with a 10.8% net margin and $7.17 in diluted earnings per share. The reported chip transaction would add a financing question to the company’s broader AI buildout, rather than changing the operating figures already disclosed for that period.
Nvidia is the hardware counterparty in the reported asset transfer. Its fiscal 2026 revenue was $215.9 billion, up 65.5% year over year, with a 71.1% gross margin, a 55.6% net margin and $4.90 in diluted earnings per share; those figures frame the chips as assets tied to a rapidly expanding supplier ecosystem.
The structure, investor participation and accounting treatment of the proposed transaction remain central open points. The report characterizes Amazon as seeking the offload, so the timing and completion of any sale are not established by the headline alone.
The next markers are Amazon’s next quarterly results and any further terms around the chip transaction. Investors will be looking for evidence of how the arrangement affects infrastructure spending, balance-sheet presentation and the economics of Amazon’s AI capacity.
Amazon is reportedly seeking to sell $8 billion of Nvidia chips to investors as AI spending accelerates.
The immediate consequence is a financing and asset-utilization question around Amazon’s AI buildout, not a change to its reported operating results. Amazon’s fiscal 2025 revenue was $716.9 billion with a 10.8% net margin, while Nvidia’s fiscal 2026 revenue reached $215.9 billion with a 55.6% net margin; the proposed structure could improve balance-sheet presentation for Amazon but also signal that AI infrastructure is consuming substantial capital.
The read is invalidated if the proposed chip sale does not proceed or if its final structure leaves Amazon with the same financing burden and asset exposure.
CoverageSource: Financial Times · Published here FRI, OCT 2 · 12:00 AM ET · 2 reports · 2 publishers in this record · latest listed: MarketWatch · FRI, OCT 2 · 8:27 AM ETHow this is decided →
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Amazon’s $716.9 billion revenue base and 10.8% net margin could support continued AI investment if selling $8 billion of chips improves balance-sheet flexibility.
The reported need to seek investors for $8 billion of Nvidia chips indicates that AI infrastructure spending may be stretching Amazon’s balance-sheet capacity despite its scale.
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