Nvidia reports record sales as the AI boom continues

Nvidia, the world’s most useful firm, reported one other quarter of sustained gross sales progress in its earnings assertion Wednesday, with $46.7 billion in income, a 56% improve in comparison with the identical interval final yr. That progress was largely fueled by AI-dominated knowledge middle enterprise, which noticed a 56% year-over-year improve in income.

Nvidia additionally noticed its internet revenue develop considerably since final yr. The corporate reported a internet revenue of $26.4 billion within the second quarter, a 59% spike because the identical interval final yr. 

All informed, the corporate introduced in $41.1 billion in income from knowledge middle gross sales within the quarter, suggesting that AI firms’ demand for cutting-edge GPUs continues to develop. The corporate’s most superior technology of chips, Blackwell, accounted for $27 billion of these gross sales.

“Blackwell is the AI platform the world has been ready for,” mentioned CEO Jensen Huang in a press release accompanying the discharge. “The AI race is on, and Blackwell is the platform at its middle.”

Huang mentioned that the corporate expects to see $3 to 4 trillion in AI infrastructure spending by the tip of the last decade. “$3 to 4 trillion is pretty wise for the following 5 years,” he informed one analyst.

The corporate made specific notice of its position within the launch of OpenAI’s open source gpt-oss models earlier this month, which concerned processing “1.5 million tokens per second on a single Nvidia Blackwell GB200 NVL72 rack-scale system.”

The earnings additionally gave a have a look at Nvidia’s ongoing battle to promote its chips in Chinese language markets. The corporate reported no gross sales of its China-focused H20 chip to Chinese language prospects previously quarter; Nvidia did report $650 million value of H20 chips had been offered to a buyer exterior China.

America has lengthy restricted gross sales of superior GPUs to Chinese language prospects — however the geopolitical scenario has modified considerably underneath President Trump. The corporate is now permitted to promote chips to China so long as it pays a 15% export tax to the U.S. Treasury, because of an unconventional association that authorized students have described as an unconstitutional abuse of power. 

On the earnings name, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress made clear that the dearth of cargo was a results of uncertainty across the association, which has not been formally codified right into a federal regulation. “Whereas a choose variety of our China-based prospects have obtained licenses over the previous few weeks,” Kress mentioned, “we now have not shipped any H20 units primarily based on these licenses.”

Nonetheless, the Chinese language authorities has officially discouraged the usage of Nvidia chips by native companies, main the corporate to reportedly halt production of the H20 chip earlier this month.

Nvidia mentioned it expects $54 billion in income within the third quarter. The corporate famous that its outlook for the third quarter, which might shift 2% in both course, doesn’t embody any H20 shipments to China.