The world’s biggest GPU maker (in terms of sales) Nvidia, is continuing to show remarkable progress. The company’s shares jumped more than 10% after the company reported their first quarter earnings.
Nvidia earned $507 million net income in Q1 this year which is more than double the amount from last year ($208 million). Revenues also surged by 48% year on year for the first quarter.
Most of its sales revenue is due to the increasing demand for the company’s GPUs, some of which are designed to handle deep learning problems like autonomous driving and speech recognition.
Big Data Hardware
Nvidia is mostly known for its gaming and GPU business making a name competing against the likes of AMD. Recently the chip maker has emerged as a go-to hardware manufacturer for companies (especially startups) that need to manage large amounts of data and need to build a feasible model to tackle that problem on the spot.
Nintendo Switch Contribution
That isn’t the only reason why Nvidia is doing so well. Revenue from its Tegra processors has also increased more than 2x to $332 million, thanks to the sales of Nintendo Switch which uses these processors.
This recent surge in income may be short-lived as Google is planning to build its own chips for machine learning algorithms. Building processors for machine learning and deep learning has been getting a lot of attention these days which makes it all the more reason for Nvidia to focus on this segment where it can specialize its products (autonomous driving for example).
Better Than Expectations
Nvidia performed better than Wall Street’s expectations. It made $0.79 as earnings per share against a revenue of $1.94 billion. Wall Street analysts had predicted $0.67 earnings per share with a $1.91 billion revenue forecast.
Their “data center GPU computing business” tripled compared with last year which is important for the company moving forward.
Via TechCrunch
Short lived? Google can’t compete with Nvidia in hardware.
Intel couldn’t!
Google only has to make hardware for itself. Same way as Google designs and makes its own motherboards with specialised power requirements. They opened up their design a few years ago.
Does it comes as a surprise to anyone? No
I take it GTX 1080 Ti is the major factor and lack of competition from AMD side in GPU segment has paved the way for nvidia even further. AMD current top line of GPU’s is competiting with NVIDIA’s 3 year old Maxwell architecture at best i.e. GTX 900 series.