Microsoft announced sharply elevated capital expenditure on AI infrastructure, prompting a 13% surge in Nvidia shares and a record single-day market-value gain of $330 billion for the chipmaker. Analyst commentary explicitly frames the capex increase as a transfer of shareholder value from software to hardware vendors. This shift materializes the realized demand side of the infrastructure build-out, but surfaces the structural dependency of semiconductor margin on hyperscaler spending commitments rather than end-user AI revenue.
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