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Competition and Market Share

NVIDIA CORP · 2026-09-22 · Importance 32 · Surprise 24

Apple is positioning its new Macs as lower-total-cost systems for running AI models locally, avoiding recurring per-token cloud charges. Apple’s strategy challenges NVIDIA’s cloud-oriented AI infrastructure economics and overlaps with NVIDIA’s push into local AI processing. Separately, Alibaba unveiled its Zhenwu V900 accelerator, targeting the performance gap created by NVIDIA’s reduced access to China and planning commercial release in the first quarter of 2027.