Data Center

Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results

Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, yet enjoyed a … Read more

AMD Q2 2020 results

AMD’s first quarter was up from Q1 and year-to-year in sales. Revenue was $1.93 billion, up 26% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Net profit was down 7.8% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments and up 349% year-to-year. “We delivered strong second-quarter results, led by record notebook and server processor sales as Ryzen and … Read more

AMD Q1 2020 results

AMD turned 50 in May 2019   AMD’s first quarter was down from Q4, but up year to year in sales and profits. Revenue was $1.79 billion, up 40% year-over-year primarily driven by higher Computing and Graphics segment revenue. Revenue was down 16% quarter-over-quarter due to lower revenue in both segments. “We executed well in the first quarter, navigating the … Read more

Nvidia’s Q4 FY20 results

Nvidia rides the AI wave   Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.7 billion, up 8% from last quarter, and up 40% from last year. The quarter was the first increase in year-over-year sales since Q3’18.   “Adoption of Nvidia accelerated computing drove excellent results, … Read more

The evolution of cloud infrastructure

I had a conversation with Jacob Smith, the CMO of Packet. Packet is a company that manages the raw infrastructure in data centers and has various products that automate data center tasks. They are being acquired by Equinix, of dot com infamy, who has quietly returned to a very large presence in US data infrastructure. The fun part of it … Read more

AMD releases the 7-nm Pro W5700

  The evolution of graphics processors has profoundly changed over the last 20 years. The first specialized graphics architectures were almost purely fixed-function and could only accelerate a very limited range of computation such as geometry or lighting transformations. Programmable shaders gave developers new levels of capabilities, but with allocated functionality. Unified shaders offered dynamic load balancing and advanced branching. … Read more

Nvidia’s Q3 FY20 results

Nvidia’s got game   Nvidia reported revenue from all platforms up for the quarter and beat Wall Street’s expectations. The company’s GPU business revenue was $2.6 billion, up22% from last quarter, but down 8% from last year. The quarter was the fourth consecutive decline in year-over-year sales. “Our gaming business and demand from hyperscale customers powered Q3’s results,” said Jensen Huang, … Read more

AMD reports Q3 2019 results: good news continues

  AMD’s third-quarter earnings results matched Wall Street’s expectations and surprised a few others with its jump in profits. AMD reported its quarterly results for calendar Q3 2019, revenues and operating income were up year-over-year as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue. Profits and announced earnings per share were 18 cents on revenue of $1.8 billion. Analysts expected … Read more