Nvidia's Revenue Surges as AI Chip Demand Outpaces Competition

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Nvidia's Revenue Surges as AI Chip Demand Outpaces Competition
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  1. Nvidia doubled its revenue and profit year-over-year in its second quarter, and forecast sales in the current quarter that topped analyst estimates, as red-hot demand for its AI chips continues to bolster the company’s fortunes.

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    Financial Times

    Nvidia sales more than double to $96bn on bumper AI demand Chip giant’s data centre division grew 117% as clients race for computing power

    CNBC

    Almost four years since the launch of OpenAI's ChatGPT, Nvidia is still seeing massive growth, with revenue in the latest quarter expected to almost double from $46.7 billion a year earlier.

    MarketWatch

    Nvidia’s quarterly earnings announcement has been a major stock-market event ever since the artificial-intelligence boom began in earnest with the introduction of ChatGPT in late 2022.

  2. Commenting on the quarter, CEO Jensen Huang said that “AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue. And demand is accelerating. This time last year, one lab alone was driving the buildout; today, we have a golden age of new AI labs and startups, multiple frontier labs scaling in parallel, a thriving open-model ecosystem and physical AI coming online — with strong momentum across the U.S. and around the world. The AI infrastructure buildout is at full steam. Vera Rubin, now in full production, was built to power exactly this moment.”

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    Fortune

    “AI has reached its inflection point. It’s doing useful work. Its tokens are productive and profitable. Now, compute is revenue,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia in a statement. “And demand is accelerating,” he said. In after-hours trading, NVDA was flat after the price tumbled 1.6% during the day.

  3. Nvidia's near-monopoly over the most advanced AI chips is under "threat" as OpenAI's and other tech giants announce custom-built semiconductors, analysts told CNBC.

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    ZeroHedge

    And lets not forget growing competition: OpenAI is just one of a growing group of customers and rivals who are touting their own chip efforts and claiming parity or performance leads over Nvidia’s offerings. Until there’s enough supply to fill every order, that remains a moot point. But there are growing concerns that Nvidia’s utter dominance is facing more serious challenges.  As reported earlier, OpenAI said its new Jalapeño processor outperformed Blackwell systems in two areas in its tests. So does specialized AI compute eventually chip away at Nvidia’s dominance, or does explosive growth in overall compute demand leave room for everyone?

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  1. 01 Fortune

    Revenue in the three months ended July 26 totaled $96.2 billion, up 18% over last quarter and 106% from the year-ago period, the company reported Wednesday—crushing analyst estimates of $92.2 billion. For the quarter currently underway, Nvidia guided to revenue of $91 billion plus or minus 2%, outpacing the average analyst expectation of $103.9 billion.

  2. 02 ZeroHedge

    In our preview of NVDA earnings we said that "Nvidia will beat FQ2 (July) revenue estimates by approximately $3-4 billion, with revenue potentially reaching $94-95 bn. The stock, however, will not respond to the beat.... recall revenue guidance has beaten Street consensus by an average of 4% over the past four quarters, while the stock has traded down 3%/5% on average over the subsequent 7/30 days." And boy were we right: despite blowout beats on the top and bottom line, the stock is sliding after hours, in what will be the 6th of the past 7 earnings reports the stock has tumbled despite beating bigly.

  3. 03 Bloomberg

    Mizuho’s Rakesh Sees Wall Street Drilling In on Nvidia Spending Mizuho Securities analyst Vijay Rakesh said investors will be riveted on Nvidia Corp.’s outlook for artificial intelligence on Wednesday because expectations of a big beat on profit are essentially baked in.

  4. 04 CNBC

    Nvidia will report fiscal second-quarter results after the bell. Here are the key numbers, according to analyst estimates as compiled by LSEG.

  5. 05 MarketWatch

    Market Extra Options traders are betting on the quietest Nvidia earnings reaction in years. It could be an opportunity for AI bulls.

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Lean Left Nvidia doubled its quarterly revenue to $96 billion and crushes estimates—CEO Jensen Huang says demand is accelerating — Fortune
Lean Right Nvidia Slides Despite Blowout Earnings Amid Concerns About Margin Weakness And Future Spending — ZeroHedge
Center Mizuho’s Rakesh Sees Wall Street Drilling In on Nvidia Spending — Bloomberg
Center Nvidia earnings live updates: Q2 results, memory prices and AI outlook — CNBC
Center OpenAI’s Jalapeño AI chip brings new 'threat' to Nvidia margins as custom silicon gains ground — CNBC
Center Nvidia sales more than double to $96bn on bumper AI demand — Financial Times
Center Options traders are betting on the quietest Nvidia earnings reaction in years. It could be an opportunity for AI bulls. — MarketWatch