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Equity Incentive Plans (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2024
Share-Based Payment Arrangement [Abstract] |
Share-Based Payment Arrangement, Activity | The following table summarizes our stock option and RSU activity for the year ended December 31, 2024:
| Stock Options |  | RSUs
| Number of Options (in thousands) |  | Weighted- Average Exercise Price |  | Weighted- Average Remaining Contractual Life (years) |  | Aggregate Intrinsic Value (in billions) |  | Number of RSUs (in thousands) |  | Weighted- Average Grant Date Fair Value
Beginning of period | 344,021 |  | $ | 35.11 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 19,088 |  | $ | 225.01 |
Granted | 14,979 |  | $ | 235.22 |  |  |  |  |  |  | 12,045 |  | $ | 223.98 |
Exercised or released | (10,469) |  | $ | 82.04 |  |  |  |  |  |  | (7,515) |  | $ | 206.02 |
Cancelled | (3,996) |  | $ | 205.61 |  |  |  |  |  |  | (4,957) |  | $ | 221.15 |
End of period | 344,535 |  | $ | 40.41 |  |  | 3.51 |  | $ | 125.22 |  |  | 18,661 |  | $ | 233.02 |
Vested and expected to vest, December 31, 2024 | 344,215 |  | $ | 40.23 |  |  | 3.50 |  | $ | 125.16 |  |  | 18,409 |  | $ | 232.99 |
Exercisable and vested, December 31, 2024 | 323,847 |  | $ | 27.75 |  |  | 3.14 |  | $ | 121.79 |  |  |  |  |
Schedule Of Share Based Payment Award Stock Options And Employee Stock Purchase Plan Valuation Assumptions | The weighted-average assumptions used in the Black-Scholes model for stock options are as follows:
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2022
Risk-free interest rate | 3.92 | % |  | 3.90 | % |  | 3.11 | %
Expected term (in years) | 4.3 |  | 4.5 |  | 4.1
Expected volatility | 59 | % |  | 63 | % |  | 63 | %
Dividend yield | 0.0 | % |  | 0.0 | % |  | 0.0 | %
Grant date fair value per share | $ | 114.29 |  |  | $ | 121.62 |  |  | $ | 114.51 |
Summary of Stock-Based Compensation Expense | The following table summarizes our stock-based compensation expense by line item in the consolidated statements of operations (in millions):
| Year Ended December 31,
| 2024 |  | 2023 |  | 2022
Cost of revenues | $ | 776 |  |  | $ | 741 |  |  | $ | 594 |
Research and development | 832 |  |  | 689 |  |  | 536 |
Selling, general and administrative | 389 |  |  | 382 |  |  | 430 |
Restructuring and other | $ | 2 |  |  | $ | — |  |  | $ | — |
Total | $ | 1,999 |  |  | $ | 1,812 |  |  | $ | 1,560 |

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