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Nvidia’s Information Middle enterprise simply logged $18.4 billion in fourth-quarter gross sales, underscoring how the pc chip large continues to learn from the present increase in synthetic intelligence.
As a part of Nvidia’s fourth-quarter earnings that have been launched Wednesday, the corporate stated its knowledge middle unit grew 409% from the $3.62 billion it reported throughout the identical interval within the earlier yr. Analysts have been anticipating Nvidia’s knowledge middle unit to document $17.06 billion in gross sales for its fiscal fourth quarter.
Traders are carefully watching Nvidia’s Information Middle enterprise, which incorporates the corporate’s H100 graphics playing cards which are broadly used to energy generative AI apps resembling OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Since OpenAI debuted ChatGPT in November 2022, tech giants resembling Alphabet and Meta and high-profile startups together with Anthropic and Cohere have more and more launched extra succesful variations of their respective massive language fashions that require monumental quantities of computing energy.
Certainly, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg stated in January that the social networking large’s computing infrastructure will embody 350,000 H100 graphics playing cards by the tip of 2024, indicating that Meta is spending billions of {dollars} on Nvidia’s fashionable pc chips as a part of its synthetic intelligence efforts.
Nvidia’s knowledge middle unit has blossomed, notably over the previous three quarters. It is the present market chief for supplying pc chips used for AI analysis and merchandise.
This is a take a look at Nvidia’s knowledge middle unit gross sales because the firm’s fiscal third quarter 2023, which ended a couple of month earlier than OpenAI launched ChatGPT:
- Fiscal Q3 2024 – knowledge middle income of $14.51 billion, up 279% from the yr prior.
- Fiscal Q2 2024 – knowledge middle income of $10.32 billion, up 171% from the yr prior.
- Fiscal Q1 2024 – knowledge middle income of $4.28 billion, up 14% from the yr prior.
- Fiscal This fall 2023 – knowledge middle income was $3.62 billion, up 11% from the yr prior.
- Fiscal Q3 2023 – knowledge middle income was $3.83 billion, up 31% from the yr prior.
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