On Wednesday, Nvidia Corporation
Over the last 12 months, Nvidia's stock price easily surpassed those of its rivals, Advanced Micro Devices
Fourth Quarter Highlights
For the quarter ended on January 29th, Nvidia reported total revenue grew 265% to $22.10 billion, topping LSEG's estimate of $20.62 billion. Data Center business, which includes sales of its high-powered GPUs for AI applications, saw revenue skyrocket 217% to $18.4 billion, also beating analysts' expectations of $17.2 billion. However, data center revenue was harmed by recent U.S. restrictions on exporting advanced AI chips to China.
The gaming segment brought in 2.9 billion, topping analyst estimates of $2.7 billion as it rose 56% YoY. Impressively, net income rose 769% YoY to $12.29 billion with adjusted earnings of $5.16 also topping LSEG's estimate of $4.64.
Competitive Threat Is Rising
Nvidia is undoubtedly at the top of its game, but its rivals are not standing still. Its main rival, AMD, is investing heavily in its own AI chips. Moreover, AMD is claiming its new MI300X surpasses Nvidia's H100 in certain workloads. AMD rolled out the MI300X before 2023 came to an end, placing it as the industry's most advanced AI accelerator.
Intel also has its own server chips while it continues to work on expanding its own capabilities on the AI front.Interestingly, Microsoft Corporation
Perhaps an even bigger threat to Nvidia doesn't come from its direct rivals but from its customers like Microsoft that are racing to develop their own specialized AI chips to lower their reliance on Nvidia's offerings. Moreover, such customers brought in more than half of its Data Center revenue during the latest reported quarter, as Nvidia attributed more than half of quarterly revenue to large cloud providers for conducting internal workloads and external customers.
Besides Microsoft, those that are either already offering or are actively developing their own in-house AI chips are Amazon.com Inc
During the current quarter, Nvidia guided for revenue of $24 billion while CEO Jensen Huang assured investors that the AI chip leader is all set for continued growth.
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