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Nvidia disclosed Friday that its investment in Elon Musk’s SpaceX was valued at roughly $21 billion at the end of the second quarter. The figure reveals the enormous scale of the chipmaker’s growing financial ties to Musk’s expanding technology empire.

In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Nvidia reported ownership of 122.8 million Class A shares in the rocket and satellite company. SpaceX made its public market debut in June through a record initial public offering.

The position has already experienced substantial volatility since the quarter closed. SpaceX shares ended Friday at $140, down from $170.86 at the end of June, reducing Nvidia’s stake to approximately $17.2 billion at current prices.

That decline represents billions of dollars in paper value, although Nvidia continues to hold one of the largest institutional positions in the company. The stock’s rapid movement also highlights the market risk surrounding even the most closely watched public offerings.

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SpaceX is Nvidia’s second largest disclosed holding, trailing only the chipmaker’s investment in Intel. Nvidia’s Intel position is currently worth about $22 billion, compared with approximately $30 billion when the second quarter ended.

Despite that retreat, the Intel holding has delivered a remarkable return on Nvidia’s original $5 billion investment made less than a year ago. The gains demonstrate how aggressively Nvidia has used its financial strength to secure strategic exposure across the technology sector.

FactSet data identifies Nvidia as the sixth largest investor in SpaceX. Musk remains the dominant shareholder by a staggering margin, with his interest valued at about $850 billion.

Alphabet ranks second among SpaceX investors, holding a position estimated at roughly $78 billion. Nvidia’s stake is smaller, but its strategic importance may extend well beyond the market value of the shares themselves.

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Nvidia received its SpaceX shares through a $10 billion investment in Musk’s artificial intelligence venture, xAI. That investment formed part of a broader $20 billion financing round completed in January, according to a person familiar with the transaction.

The source requested anonymity because the precise terms and size of the private deal were not publicly released. SpaceX subsequently acquired xAI in February through a transaction that valued the combined operation at $1.25 trillion.

The arrangement links Nvidia’s capital directly to a company that is also becoming a major customer for its advanced processors. That relationship gives Nvidia exposure to SpaceX’s equity performance while strengthening demand for its core artificial intelligence products.

Musk said during SpaceX’s second quarter earnings call that the company intends to use Nvidia chips exclusively in its artificial intelligence data centers. Those facilities are expected to support both training and inference for increasingly powerful frontier models.

According to Musk, Nvidia’s graphics processing units offer the “best architecture” for artificial intelligence training, inference and related products. That endorsement reinforces Nvidia’s position as the preferred supplier for some of the most capital intensive computing projects in the world.

Musk also said he expects SpaceX to receive a “significant allocation” of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin graphics processing units next year. Access to those chips could be critical as SpaceX expands its computing infrastructure and pushes deeper into artificial intelligence.

For Nvidia investors, the SpaceX disclosure provides a clearer view of how the company is deploying the extraordinary cash generated by its processor business. Management is not merely selling chips to major technology customers, but also taking large ownership positions in businesses likely to consume enormous quantities of computing power.

The strategy carries obvious exposure to market swings, as the recent drop in SpaceX shares has already demonstrated. However, Nvidia’s investments in SpaceX and Intel also show how the chip giant is using capital to build influence across artificial intelligence, semiconductor manufacturing and advanced infrastructure.

SpaceX’s volatile performance since its June debut will remain closely watched because every major price movement now has a direct effect on Nvidia’s investment portfolio. Even after the decline, the roughly $17.2 billion position represents a powerful alliance between two of the technology market’s most influential companies.

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