Overview
- Nvidia’s Q1 revenue climbed 69% year-on-year to $44.1 billion and net income rose 26% to $18.8 billion, driven by AI datacenter demand.
- The company took a $4.5 billion charge for excess H20 GPU inventory and forecasts an $8 billion sales shortfall next quarter from US chip export bans to China.
- CEO Jensen Huang cautioned that barring US GPUs from China risks ceding global AI leadership to domestic Chinese platforms.
- Nvidia is accelerating development of its next-generation Vera Rubin AI chips and refining Blackwell variants to uphold its performance edge.
- To offset Chinese market restrictions, Nvidia is diversifying into regions such as Saudi Arabia and saw its gaming GPU division post a record $3.8 billion quarter.