Monday, November 14, 2016

Nvidia record, the ace in the sleeve is Nintendo Switch? – Tom’s Hardware

Nvidia has scored a quarterly record, closing the third quarter of fiscal 2017 with a sales of 2 billion dollars, an increase of 54% compared to last year (1.3 billion). The operating profit stood at 639 million (+161%), while net profit rose 120% to 542 million dollars. The diluted earnings per share was 83 cents, an increase of 89%.

“We had a quarter amazing with record revenues, margins and profits, driven by the strength of our product line,” commented the founder and ceo of Nvidia, Jen-Hsun Huang.

The new GPU Pascal have swept, enjoying a great success in gaming, virtual reality, automotive, autonomous, and in the datacenter for the artificial intelligence. the We have invested years of work and billions of dollars in order to advance in deep learning. Our platform of GPUS for deep learning handles each framework for artificial intelligence and is available in the cloud services of Amazon, IBM, Microsoft, and Alibaba, and in the server of each manufacturer (OEM). The use of GPUS for deep learning has unleashed a wave of innovation that will usher in a new era of computing,” added Huang.

The business of GPUS grew 53% on an annual basis, to 1,697 billion dollars, and also the platform Tegra, although representing a fraction of the turnover (241 million), is growing more than excellent (+87%). Spacchettando accounts for areas of the market, Nvidia has registered an increase in turnover of 63% in the Gaming area (eur 1.244 billion) and +193% from the datacenter (240 million).

The new proposals, based on architecture Pascal are enjoying great success, so as with the GeForce series as with the line Tesla. From the record in the first case, the arrival in desktop cards, the GTX 1050 and the GTX 1050 Ti, but also of the solutions for notebook GTX 1080, 1070 and 1060. With regard to the solutions Tesla, during the quarter, Nvidia has introduced the solutions P40 and P4, and has started to distribute the supercomputer NVIDIA DGX-1 at different research centers, universities and multinational corporations (such as SAP).

also Grows in the professional sector related to the proposed Framework, although “only” 9 per cent and 207 million dollars. In this case, a decrease of 3% compared to the previous quarter. Finally, Nvidia continues to work to bring their solutions Tegra in the market of the car. In this sense, how can you not remember the agreement with Tesla to Elon Musk to equip all the cars (Model S, X, 3) with the Driver platform PX2, and to ensure, in the future, the ability to guide independent complete. the The automotive industry has scored a +61% on an annual basis, passing from 79 to 127 million dollars.

The announcement unexpected quarter relates to the use of Nintendo a platform, Nvidia Tegra for the new system to the game Switch, a home console that, if necessary, can also be transformed into a laptop. The nissan should reveal more details on the product, on the 13th of January, including release date and price.

this information will enable one to form an idea of the success of the product before the arrival on the market. On the basis of the acceptance of the public Nvidia could open a new trend and positive in its turnover, reflecting what is happening in the house AMD with the income linked to the production of the chip central the Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

For the next quarter, which will close the fiscal year 2017, Nvidia anticipates a turnover of 2.1 billion (with a margin of error of 1-2%). Last year the company reached sales for us $ 1.4 billion.

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