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Understanding a company: Nvidia.

One company, followed through DESK from its own figures to the countries and events around it. Each step shows what you see on screen and where it leads next.

The starting question

What does a chip company like Nvidia depend on, beyond its own numbers?

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Nvidia’s company page in DESK with revenue and net profit since 2007
From DESK · November 2026 · click to enlarge

The path through DESK

Six steps, from the figures to the world around them.

Each step opens from the one before, without a second website.

Nvidia’s quarterly figures in DESK: revenue, operating income, net profit, diluted earnings per share (EPS), total assets, liabilities and revenue against the year before, per quarter

01

Start with the figures

The company page shows revenue, profit and diluted earnings per share (EPS) quarter by quarter, taken from Nvidia’s filings with the SEC.

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Resource dependency of the computer and chip industry: cents of each raw material per dollar of output, metals and chemicals first

02

See what the industry is made of

Resource dependency shows which raw materials the computer and chip industry needs for every dollar of output: mostly metals and chemicals.

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Supplier table: the countries the United States imports these raw materials from, with share, main goods and conflict deaths

03

Follow the raw materials to their countries

The supplier table shows where the United States buys these raw materials, with the conflict deaths in each country next to its share.

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Relations network around Nvidia: owners, subsidiaries and the closest companies in the industry, including TSMC and Foxconn

04

Look at the network around the company

The relations network shows owners, subsidiaries and the closest companies in the industry — among them TSMC and Foxconn, both from Taiwan.

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Relations map of Taiwan: alliances, direct investment partners and the conflict with China from 1958

05

Open the country behind it

Taiwan’s country page shows its alliances, its investment partners and the conflict with China that the UCDP data records from 1958.

Geopolitics →
DESK Impact for Nvidia: extra cost of current price moves by raw material, with copper at the top

06

Check what is happening now

DESK Impact estimates what current wars and price moves mean for the company’s costs, here mostly through copper.

News, Radar & Impact →

Linked information

What came together on the way.

Six kinds of information, each with its own source, connected by one question.

InformationWhere in DESK · source
Revenue and profit per quarterCompany page · SEC EDGAR
Raw materials per dollar of outputCompany page · US BEA input-output tables
Supplier countries and conflict deathsCompany page · CEPII BACI, UCDP
Owners, subsidiaries, nearby companiesCompany page · Wikidata
Alliances, investment partners, conflictsCountry page · Wikidata, UCDP, direct investment data
Cost of current price movesDESK Impact · BEA, commodity prices

Your own finding

What you take away is yours.

DESK shows the connections; what they mean for you is your own reading.

For example

“Nvidia’s revenue has grown fast. Its industry needs metals from a handful of countries, and two of the manufacturers closest to it in the network, TSMC and Foxconn, are based in Taiwan, a place with a recorded conflict history. Next: read in the annual report who makes the chips.”

What this page is not

No recommendation to buy or sell, no price forecast and no judgement on the share. The screenshots are from November 2026; the figures change as the sources publish.

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