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Musk Warns Nvidia Could Lose Huang’s Handshake Deals
Musk says some supplier arrangements depended on Huang personally. He adds that Huang delivered on verbal commitments before purchase orders followed.
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Key points
- Musk says some critical Nvidia supply deals rested on Huang’s word and could be lost without him.
- In a follow-up, Musk says Huang delivered on verbal commitments before purchase orders were prepared.
- Nvidia’s board has said it expects customer commitments and operations to continue without interruption.
Elon Musk warned on Saturday that Nvidia could lose critical supply arrangements after Jensen Huang’s departure, saying many deals had depended on a handshake with the company’s co-founder rather than a written contract.
“Jensen drove supply chain brilliantly at Nvidia,” Musk wrote on X, warning that at least some critical deals could be lost without him. He did not name the suppliers or specify the value or capacity involved.
The warning follows Nvidia’s November 12 announcement that Huang had resigned as chief executive, president and a director. Finance chief Colette Kress became interim CEO. The board said it expected operations, customer commitments and the product roadmap to continue without interruption [1].
His word came before the paperwork
Musk then described his own experience. When Huang gave his word on computing deliveries or was asked to accelerate components, he “always came through,” Musk wrote. A purchase order would be put together later, he added, but he never doubted delivery.
That follow-up adds an important distinction to his first post: in the transactions Musk described, a verbal commitment preceded formal paperwork. It does not establish that those purchases remained permanently undocumented.
Musk was responding to a CEOInterviews.AI post attributing to analyst Dylan Patel an account of Huang personally persuading small suppliers to allocate production to Nvidia. That post also claimed Google was now seeking their capacity. Neither Musk’s posts nor the quoted account identifies a supplier that has cancelled an Nvidia arrangement.
What is at stake
Nvidia’s own disclosures show the breadth of the supply network involved. On October 21, the company announced expansion plans spanning chip substrates, advanced packaging, testing and optical engines. It described capacity-reservation agreements and advances, including $1.1 billion for testing supplier KYEC [2].
Those published agreements do not establish which arrangements Musk meant. His warning raises a narrower question for the new leadership: whether supplier cooperation built around Huang personally can carry over to his successors. The posts provide no evidence that Nvidia has already lost the capacity he described.
Sources: [1] Nvidia, 12 November 2026 · [2] Nvidia, 21 October 2026. Elon Musk and CEOInterviews.AI, X, 14 November 2026.
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