NVIDIA stock news usually means a price move. This one is a calendar. On 21 October 2026 NVIDIA said it plans to raise substrate capacity 2.5 times over three years, backed by a $1.1 billion capacity advance to King Yuan Electronics (KYEC) for US testing¹. Six suppliers were named, and the dates attached to them say more than the headline does; the rest of our coverage is in the NVIDIA news hub.

What NVIDIA announced at GTC Berlin

The release names IBIDEN, Unimicron, Samsung Electro-Mechanics, Amkor, SPIL and KYEC, with sites in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Singapore and the US¹. IBIDEN’s advance is given only as multibillion-dollar. Amkor plans interposer capacity growth of more than 300% by the end of 2028, and SPIL optical-engine capacity 15 times higher by mid-2027¹.

Spread evenly, 2.5 times over three years is about 36% a year, our calculation. Chief Executive Jensen Huang gave the logic in four words: “Capacity is the constraint”¹. On the same day NVIDIA’s Google Cloud post headlined general availability while its body said A5X instances arrive next month².

What the schedule shows

Lay the dates in a row and a pattern appears. Dated steps run from February 2027, when Singapore testing starts volume production, to the end of 2028, a 22-month span by our count¹. KYEC’s US sites follow in April 2027, two months after Singapore. Testing and optics land in 2027, while Unimicron’s added substrate capacity starts in Q2 2027 and reaches full capacity by mid-2028, and IBIDEN’s extra capacity starts in Q1 2028, so the substrate ramps finish after the testing ones.

NVIDIA’s own filings give the scale. Supply and capacity commitments stood at $279 billion on 26 July, up from $119 billion a quarter earlier and “primarily related to the procurement of memory”⁴. The KYEC advance equals 0.4% of that total, our calculation, though it came after the balance date, so read it as a size comparison only. For the market side, see our look at the semiconductor index’s five-session drop and the Samsung and TSMC HBM base die report.

What to Watch

• NVIDIA Q3 FY27 Results, Date Not Yet Listed: NVIDIA’s investor events page showed no date for the results³; follow Nasdaq news today for the listing.
• Google Cloud A5X Availability, November 2026: NVIDIA’s post said the instances arrive next month².
• Singapore Testing Volume Production, February 2027: Supplier sites in Taiwan, Japan and Singapore sit inside the Asian markets news today session hours.

The first dated milestone is Singapore’s February 2027 volume start, and the results date, the next chance to update that schedule, is still unlisted.

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References

NVIDIA and Supply Chain Partners Expand Capacity to Accelerate AI Infrastructure Buildout – NVIDIA Newsroom. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/nvidia-and-supply-chain-partners-expand-capacity-to-accelerate-ai-infrastructure-buildout

Google Cloud and NVIDIA Announce General Availability of NVIDIA Vera Rubin Infrastructure – NVIDIA Blog. https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/google-cloud-vera-rubin-infrastructure/

Events and Presentations – NVIDIA Investor Relations. https://investor.nvidia.com/events-and-presentations/events-and-presentations/default.aspx

Q2 FY27 CFO Commentary – NVIDIA Investor Relations. https://s201.q4cdn.com/141608511/files/doc_financials/2027/Q227/Q2FY27-CFO-Commentary.pdf

Accessed on 22 October 2026.