Nvidia Has More 2026 Profit from Owning Intel Than Intel Has Ever Made in a Year Being Intel
Nvidia has more 2026 profit from owning Intel than Intel has ever made in a year being Intel.
Think about that for a second.
Nvidia bought ~$5 billion of Intel toward the end of 2025 and that stake was marked near $30B in June 2026. That’s a $25 billion paper profit for the strenuous work of holding a stock.
Intel has been in business for 57 years: building fabs, taping out chips, shipping billions of processors in its history.
Intel’s highest profit year in history was 2018: $21B.
So Nvidia’s little VC side hustle beat Intel’s peak.
It also beat Intel’s last three years combined, which is a low bar, because combined they add up to NEGATIVE $17 billion.
Sigh. It’s Jensen’s world, we are all just living in it.