NVIDIA has reported second-quarter GAAP net income up 15% to US$583m with record revenue of up 56% to US$2.2bn.
“Adoption of NVIDIA GPU computing is accelerating, driving growth across our businesses,” said NVIDIA founder and CEO, Jensen Huang.
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“Datacentre revenue increased more than two and a half times. A growing number of car and robot-taxi companies are choosing our DRIVE PX self-driving computing platform. And in Gaming, increasingly the world’s most popular form of entertainment, we power the fastest growing platforms – GeForce and Nintendo Switch.
“Nearly every industry and company is awakening to the power of AI. Our new Volta GPU, the most complex processor ever built, delivers a 100-fold speedup for deep learning beyond our best GPU of four years ago.
“This quarter, we shipped Volta in volume to leading AI customers. This is the era of AI, and the NVIDIA GPU has become its brain. We have incredible opportunities ahead of us.”
NVIDIA highlighted several automotive landmarks in its Q2 announcement:
- Toyota selected NVIDIA DRIVE™ PX for its next-generation autonomous cars.
- Volvo and Autoliv selected DRIVE PX for self-driving cars targeted to hit the market by 2021.
- ZF and Hella announced a system based on DRIVE PX to deliver the highest NCAP safety ratings for cars.
- Baidu announced its Project Apollo open-source self-driving platform for the China market will use DRIVE PX.
