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Radar · Geopolitics and policy · T2 · 2029 · WARNING

NVIDIA China share stays under 10% through FY2029

China (including Hong Kong) accounts for less than 10% of NVIDIA's total revenue in each of its fiscal 2027, 2028, and 2029 Forms 10-K, meaning US export controls permanently remove China as a material NVIDIA market.

WARNINGdownindicators on trackregistered 2026-09-08NVIDIAChinaHuawei

ClaimChina (including Hong Kong) accounts for less than 10% of NVIDIA's total revenue in each of its fiscal 2027, 2028, and 2029 Forms 10-K, meaning US export controls permanently remove China as a material NVIDIA market.
Consensus (implied)60%implied from NVIDIA fiscal 2026 10-K revenue by geography, via edgar.tools · 2026-02-25
Distance+1.33log-odds · clearly above consensus
My confidence85%80% CI 7293%
Engine89%+4 pts vs me · stacked-fixed-weights
Falsifies ifAny of the fiscal 2027, 2028, or 2029 10-Ks shows China (including Hong Kong) at 10.0% or more of total revenue.
HorizonMarch 31, 2029936 days · by end-2029 · milestone ladder

Why it matters

Export controls are usually debated as policy; this thesis scores them as revenue. If China stays under a tenth of NVIDIA's sales for three more years while the company doubles, the controls will have done what they were meant to do commercially, and Chinese demand will have moved to Huawei and domestic silicon for good. That is the fork that decides whether there is one global accelerator stack or two.

Probability over time

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Registered at 85% on September 8, 2026. Engine repriced 2 times; now 89%.

Milestone ladder

Dated rungs. Each is scored on its own; the thesis does not get credit for the ladder until the rungs land.

0%50%100%2027-03-31m180%2028-03-31m265%

filled bar · my probabilityhollow dot · engineamber date · due, awaiting adjudication

m1 · 2027-03-31 · 80% · NVIDIA's fiscal 2027 10-K shows China (including Hong Kong) below 10% of total revenue.

m2 · 2028-03-31 · 65% · NVIDIA's fiscal 2028 10-K shows China (including Hong Kong) below 10% of total revenue.

Leading indicators

Registered thresholds. Status is computed from the latest public reading.

NVIDIA China (incl. Hong Kong) share of quarterly revenueno data

percent

811no data yet

on track < 8 · off >= 11manual

connector returned no usable reading · checked 2026-09-07

NVIDIA total quarterly revenueon track

96.2B usd

90B70B

on track >= 90B · off < 70Bsec-xbrl

series as of 2026-07-26

What would move me

Would raise my number

  • H200 deliveries to China staying below 200,000 units through fiscal 2027 despite US licenses.
  • Beijing directing state-linked buyers to domestic accelerators for new data centers.
  • A US rule formalizing a revenue levy or per-buyer cap that makes China sales uneconomic.

Would cut it

  • A Blackwell-class part (B30A or successor) licensed for China with volume shipments in a 10-Q.
  • A US-China trade agreement that removes accelerator export licensing for named buyers.
  • NVIDIA total revenue growth stalling, which would raise China's share arithmetically.

Council · 56%

6 personas on one model (openai/gpt-5.6-sol); other vendors were unavailable this run, so read this as one model's persona-averaged view.

60%

grid-and-power-planner · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

Reference class: three-year persistence of U.S. technology export restrictions and geographic revenue shares starting within one percentage point of a cutoff. FY2026’s 9.1% leaves little cushion. The latest $96.2 billion quarterly total supports denominator growth but does not measure China, so the 0.98 structural prior overweights a numerator-free trend. Licensed H200 sales or later policy relaxation could lift China above 10% in at least one year, especially as companywide growth decelerates. I estimate roughly 0.84, 0.80, and 0.78 conditional annual survival; policy correlation offsets some naive compounding, while the separate-disclosure requirement adds miss risk.

56%

semiconductor-supply-chain-analyst · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

My reference class is multi-year semiconductor export-control regimes, where restrictions persist but licensing and product redesign create recurring reopening risk. Fiscal 2026 starts only modestly below the threshold at 0.091. Rapid total-revenue growth strongly helps, and the supplied quarterly series supports that denominator thesis, but it provides no China numerator. Licensed H200 sales could lift China revenue materially, especially as overall growth decelerates in fiscal 2028-2029. The three-year conjunction compounds threshold-crossing risk. I also penalize the thesis because, after several sub-threshold years, NVIDIA could stop separately presenting China; the rule counts that as a miss. The denominator-only structural prior therefore overstates confidence.

50%

enterprise-cio · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

My reference class is three-year persistence of country revenue shares around a reporting threshold during changing trade controls, not revenue-growth extrapolations. FY2027 is likely below 10%: the reported FY2026 share was 9.1%, the FY2027 denominator is expanding rapidly, and baseline China data-center revenue is zero. I assign 0.88 to FY2027, then conditional survival of 0.78 and 0.76 for FY2028–29, plus 0.95 for continued separate disclosure and timely filing: about 0.50. Licensing creates a pathway for the numerator to recover. The structural prior captures denominator growth but not policy-driven China sales or the explicit disclosure-failure clause.

61%

credit-analyst · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

Reference class: three-year survival of a near-threshold geographic revenue share under a volatile trade-control regime. Fiscal 2026 began at 9.1%, while the supplied quarterly revenue run-rate makes the fiscal 2027 denominator protective. However, licensed H200 sales can lift the numerator, and policy easing or slower aggregate growth raises later breach risk. I assign 12%-18% annual breach hazards; allowing for their correlation gives roughly 0.64 for all three economic tests, then a 3-point penalty for the disclosure/basis failure clause. This is below 0.85 because the 0.98 structural prior extrapolates total revenue without modeling China revenue or the conjunctive filing requirement.

59%

geopolitics-policy-analyst · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

I use the reference class of export-control regimes over three years: restrictions usually persist, but licensing, product redesigns, diplomatic bargaining, and enforcement gaps create meaningful revenue recovery risk. FY2026 starts narrowly below the threshold at 9.1%. Rapid non-China growth makes FY2027 favorable, although licensed H200 sales could materially raise the numerator. By FY2028–FY2029, China’s large accelerator demand and multiple policy-reset opportunities increase the chance that at least one year reaches 10%. Because the test is conjunctive, correlated annual estimates around 0.75–0.82 do not justify 0.85 for all three. I also apply a small penalty for changed geographic disclosure, which automatically causes a miss.

48%

superforecaster-statistician · openai/gpt-5.6-sol

Base rate: I use 0.50 for a geography sitting within one percentage point of a cutoff to remain on the same side in three consecutive annual filings. Rapid total-revenue growth and export controls raise the estimate, but FY2026 was only 9.1%, licensed H200 sales create numerator upside, and policy can change over 2.5 years. This is a three-leg conjunction plus a named-line, named-basis disclosure requirement; correlated outcomes still compound failure risk, and any disclosure change loses. The 0.98 structural prior extrapolates total revenue while omitting China revenue. The stated 0.85 also exceeds its own 0.65 FY2028 milestone, which upper-bounds the full conjunction.

Engine prior

98% from sec-xbrl-loglinear-bootstrap:li-2. log-linear growth +0.597/yr on the last 16 points, extrapolated from 2026-07-26; P(li-2 satisfies onTrack >= 90000000000.0 at 2029-03-31); proxy for the thesis, not its rule