NVIDIA hits record high sales, recording particularly significant revenue growth in the gaming and data center business
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On February 24, 2021, semiconductor giant NVIDIA released its financial report for the fourth quarter of 2020 (November 2020 to January 2021). Among them, the company reports that the game business and data center business revenues in the same period reached record highs, and full-year sales also reached record highs.
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In its financial report, NVIDIA reported sales of $ 5 billion in the fourth quarter of 2020, an increase of 61% from $ 3.11 billion in the same period of the previous year (about 329,762.63 million yen). Announced that it recorded a record high of 6% increase from $ 4.73 billion in the previous quarter (about 501,536,090,000 yen).
NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement, 'Continuing from the previous quarter, this quarter will be another record quarter, marking the beginning of NVIDIA's computing platform breakthrough. The results are worthy. Our advanced efforts in
In particular, Juan noted that the demand for graphics cards in the GeForce RTX 30 series announced by the company in September 2020 was tremendous, saying, 'This series is for gamers with ray tracing , DLSS , AI. I was absorbed in it and created a big upgrade cycle swell. '
Driven by increased demand for graphics cards, NVIDIA's gaming business revenues in the fourth quarter increased 10% quarter-on-quarter and 67% year-on-year to $ 2.5 billion (approximately 26,145 million yen). Recorded and reached a record high. In addition, full-year sales in 2020 were a record high of $ 7.76 billion (¥ 82,342,880,000), up 41% from the previous year.
Along with the game business, the data center business was particularly strong. Data center business revenue in the fourth quarter of 2020 was $ 1.9 billion, a slight increase from the previous quarter, which was already strong, but a dramatic increase of 97% from the same period of the previous year. I showed you. As a result, full-year sales increased 124% from the previous year to $ 6.7 billion (¥ 71,843.2 million), a record high.
Regarding the data center business, Mr. Juan said, 'Our universal AI data center GPU, A100, is widely used by cloud service providers and others. Many companies around the world use NVIDIA's AI to create cloud products. We are witnessing the'smartphone moment'in every industry. ' According to overseas news media ZDNet, Mr. Juan's 'smartphone moment' refers to 'a moment when communication between industry and customers changes completely,' such as when smartphones spread rapidly. That thing.
NVIDIA forecasts revenue in the first quarter of 2021 to be '5.3 billion dollars (about 562,443.95 million yen) plus or minus 2%', and in the third and fourth quarters of 2020, which set a new record high one after another He continued, saying that the first quarter of 2021 is likely to set a new record.
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