"Earning money is not that difficult; it is a learnable skill that others can achieve too."
"Earning money is not that difficult; it is a learnable skill that others can achieve too."
Jensen Huang is a highly regarded figure in the business world, and his success was not achieved overnight. In an interview, he candidly shared his views on making money, believing "making money is not that difficult, it is a learnable skill that others can also achieve".
NVIDIA, the globally renowned tech giant, showed its staggering profitability in the earnings report for the first quarter of the 2025 fiscal year ending April 28th. The company's revenue reached $26 billion, up 262% year-over-year; profit soared to $14.9 billion, a 628% increase compared to the same period last year. NVIDIA's financial performance is astonishing: a single quarter's revenue is set to match the total income for the entirety of fiscal year 2023.
NVIDIA's profitability stands out in the business world. The money made in just one quarter surpasses the sum of the latest quarterly net profits of Alibaba, Tencent, Baidu, and Xiaomi.
The release of the financial report undoubtedly had a positive impact on the company's share price. NVIDIA's stock value experienced a remarkable growth from the 2022 low of $107 to an all-time high of $1037.99, almost a tenfold increase. Multiple financial institutions are bullish on NVIDIA's future performance, having raised their target prices.
As the driving force of the company, founder Jensen Huang's personal fortune has soared with the rapid rise in the company's market value, bringing his net worth to $91.3 billion, ranking him 17th on the global billionaires' list.
In the rapid development of artificial intelligence technology, NVIDIA has played a significant role. Not only because its GPUs are indispensable in building AI models, but also because the company's products are in such high demand that NVIDIA has become a veritable "money printing machine". With his remarkable business acumen and NVIDIA's market performance, Jensen Huang has become a sought-after star in the global tech industry.
Looking to the future, Jensen Huang is brimming with confidence. He expects NVIDIA to enter another growth phase with the launch of the new generation Blackwell architecture chips and is already preparing for it. People are looking forward to this Chinese-American entrepreneur once again leading the company to brilliant achievements.
NVIDIA Corporation recently released a financially impressive report, disclosing its earnings and looking ahead to future trends. The company's data center business remained the main source of income, reaching a historic high of $22.5 billion, a 427% year-over-year increase. According to NVIDIA CFO Colette Kress during the earnings call, this growth was primarily due to increased shipments of Hopper architecture GPUs (such as the H100). Demand was particularly strong from enterprises and consumer cloud service firms, especially as large cloud service providers expand and upgrade their infrastructure, significantly boosting the prosperity of the data center business.
In NVIDIA's other key business segments, gaming and AI PC business generated $2.6 billion in revenue, an 18% year-over-year growth; professional visualization reached $427 million in revenue, up 45% year-over-year; automotive and robotics business brought in $329 million, an 11% increase compared to the previous year. Overall, these business segments maintained a solid double-digit growth rate over the last year.
NVIDIA's main customer base covers many market leaders, including companies such as Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Alphabet, which account for up to 40% of NVIDIA's total sales. These companies have made substantial investments in the field of artificial intelligence and face intense competition. Facing challenges in the Chinese market, Colette Kress revealed that NVIDIA has launched a product line that does not require a license to meet the demands of the Chinese market. Since the US government implemented new export policies last year, this approach has had a positive impact on the Chinese market's revenue. NVIDIA introduced the GPU H20 “Special Edition” for localized demands and has been accepting pre-orders since March, although it has not yet begun shipping.
NVIDIA's founder and CEO, Jensen Huang, admitted on the earnings call that the Chinese market poses a challenge to the company, as NVIDIA’s business in China has been pressured due to US technology restrictions, further intensifying competition. He also pointed out plans for the company to split its shares in a 1-for-10 share split and to increase the quarterly dividend by 150%, reaching 10 cents per share. More importantly, NVIDIA expects revenue for the next quarter to reach $28 billion, surpassing analysts' previous forecast of $26.61 billion, demonstrating the company's strong business growth.
NVIDIA is undaunted by market fluctuations, with a constant stream of “new ammunition” in hand. From top tech giants to startups, all are eagerly lining up to purchase their GPU chips. Thanks to the demand surge led by generative AI, NVIDIA GPU chips continue to see performance improvements and optimizations. While the market’s demand for the A100 GPU and H100 GPU has not yet subsided, this March, NVIDIA launched GPU chips based on the most advanced Blackwell architecture—the B200 and GB200 series—with further enhancements in performance, speed, security, and energy efficiency. According to a report by HSBC, NVIDIA chip pricing has increased, with the average sale price of the GB200 ranging between $60,000 to $70,000, and the standalone B100 GPU averaging $30,000 to $35,000.
Under the leadership of Jensen Huang, NVIDIA stands at the threshold of a new round of growth, thanks to the soon-to-be-released Blackwell architecture chips. Huang has high expectations for this, predicting that NVIDIA will see a significant revenue from Blackwell chips in this year's earnings report. He detailed the product’s launch plan, stating in an earnings call that Blackwell chips will begin shipping this quarter, with production ramping up in the third quarter, and massively deployed into data center operations in the fourth quarter.
The market's desire for NVIDIA chips continues to grow, and Jensen Huang revealed an astonishing figure: currently, there are approximately 15,000 to 20,000 emerging AI startups looking forward to becoming NVIDIA's customers, wishing to use NVIDIA's chips for AI model training. It is worth mentioning that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has also chosen to collaborate with NVIDIA to expand his AI training capabilities, with Huang revealing that Tesla has purchased as many as 35,000 GPUs, aiding significant progress in its Full Self-Driving (FSD) technology. Similarly, Meta also plans to create a hardware ecosystem worth billions of dollars, supported by NVIDIA's H100 GPU, by the end of this year.
Even though NVIDIA almost monopolizes the market, this does not mean it can act without concern. Countless investors, entrepreneurs, and recognized heavyweight enterprises are eagerly watching NVIDIA's business. Like OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman, who plans to raise trillions of dollars to establish his own chip company; SoftBank's founder Masayoshi Son seeks up to 100 billion dollars in funds to invest in the AI chip industry. Moreover, companies such as Groq, which claims ten times the GPU performance in the chip technology field, and NVIDIA's traditional competitors like Intel and AMD, are also vying for market share, and NVIDIA's major customers are even considering developing their own chips to replace existing products.
For Jensen Huang, no party in this market can compete with NVIDIA. He confidently stated, "We control all the data, we built everything, every link. Not just having fancy presentations, we ourselves have constructed the entire system. We can optimize all of this on a large scale, and it is this knowledge of scalability and deep integration in data centers that truly sets us apart." He proposed such a viewpoint during an earnings call.
As the biggest beneficiary of the AI technology research and development wave, Jensen Huang doesn't hide his excitement, claiming, "The next industrial revolution has already begun." In this revolution, a new product known as Token becomes core, representing floating-point calculation ability. Tokens hold immense value and can be transformed with the aid of AI into languages, proteins, chemicals, graphics, images, videos, robotics, and other forms. In Huang's view, artificial intelligence is about to bring revolutionary productivity improvements to every industry, and NVIDIA will play a key role as the builder of AI factories, not just as a chipmaker, but as a comprehensive system supplier.
In today's tech world, Jensen Huang and NVIDIA are in the spotlight. As one of the founders of NVIDIA, his outstanding leadership and innovative spirit lead the company to continue making breakthroughs in high-performance computing and graphics processing, pushing the envelope of technological innovation. NVIDIA is famous for its GeForce series graphics cards and has gradually expanded into fields like AI and autonomous driving, becoming a globally renowned AI platform company.
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