# Nvidia reportedly used customer financing to sustain GPU prices

_Published Saturday, November 14, 2026 at 10:18 PM EST · Capital · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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Nvidia pushed for more customer financing deals in mid-to-late 2026 to absorb excess TSMC wafer supply and keep GPU prices high, The Wall Street Journal reported in a profile of interim CEO Colette Kress, relayed by TechSpot.

Kress expressed concern about the scale of agreements with cloud providers and AI companies, including OpenAI. By summer 2026, Nvidia had begun slowing, downsizing and pausing some financing deals as it questioned its semiconductor orders. One OpenAI agreement originally included a $250 billion backstop for the world's largest data center.

## Sources

- [techspot.com](https://www.techspot.com/news/114558-nvidia-deliberately-kept-gpu-prices-high-through-circular.html)

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