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Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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Re: Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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delusional to think it isn't

not everyone works on ai or ai adjacent products, or even tech on this site

tech is a large component of the overall economy though, so like it or not, we're all attached to this. I'm not a banker investing into mortgage-backed-securities either, but the 2008 GFC still affected me.

Re: Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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Could be related to the $50b buybacks

Shouldn't those pump the stock?

It depends on the market sentiment, it can go both ways. On one hand a stock buyback can be considered a bullish signal, the company is strong and doing well, on the other it can be a bearish signal, the company is out of useful things to do with all the cash it has laying around so it's buying back stock.

Re: Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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Numbers are impressive, not sure why it's down in AH.

Because markets are forward-looking. They know this cycle of the AI hype bubble is coming to an end, so to put it simply, this earnings release is as good as it will get for a while. The market believes there's nowhere to go but down from here.

The market thought Nvidia was toast when cryptocurrency flopped over. The demand for GPGPU compute is pervasive, and even if LLMs go nowhere then there's still applications for CUDA and high-performance server compute. When the dust settles, Nvidia's lifeline is less the AI demand and more their server niche they fill.

Besides Apple, who can't be forced to build server hardware at gunpoint, Nvidia is the only TSMC customer bringing HPC to the consumer. That's an enormous segment they can capitalize on, and AI is really just the tip of the iceberg. With so many other OEMs laser-focused on AI performance, they're entirely glossing over the flexibility that made CUDA successful in the first place. Pour another one out for OpenCL, the industry hardly knew ye.

Re: Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Because markets are forward-looking. They know this cycle of the AI hype bubble is coming to an end, so to put it simply, this earnings release is as good as it will get for a while. The market believes there's nowhere to go but down from here.

The market thought Nvidia was toast when cryptocurrency flopped over. The demand for GPGPU compute is pervasive, and even if LLMs go nowhere then there's still applications for CUDA and high-performance server compute. When the dust settles, Nvidia's lifeline is less the AI demand and more their server niche they fill. Besides Apple, who can't be forced to build server hardware at gunpoint, Nvidia is the only TSMC cu…

How does nvidia compete with TSMC? I thought nvidia used TSMC for fab? And a Samsung, but that hardly makes them competitors.

TSMC doesn’t sell chips directly, they just manufacture designs

Re: Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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Nvidia earnings is directly tied to 100% of HNers compensation and employment more so than any political news.

Not mine.

the largest share holder of NVIDIA is fidelity retirement fund I think?

Re: Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The market thought Nvidia was toast when cryptocurrency flopped over. The demand for GPGPU compute is pervasive, and even if LLMs go nowhere then there's still applications for CUDA and high-performance server compute. When the dust settles, Nvidia's lifeline is less the AI demand and more their server niche they fill. Besides Apple, who can't be forced to build server hardware at gunpoint, Nvidia is the only TSMC cu…

How does nvidia compete with TSMC? I thought nvidia used TSMC for fab? And a Samsung, but that hardly makes them competitors. TSMC doesn’t sell chips directly, they just manufacture designs

I should have said "customer" there, to be more clear. Nvidia competes with Apple for fab space on the latest nodes, which is more what I wanted to zoom in on. Apple has zero interest in courting Nvidia's customers, which leads me to believe that Nvidia has a practically captive market.

Re: Nvidia Announces Financial Results for Second Quarter Fiscal 2025

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Numbers are impressive, not sure why it's down in AH.

Because markets are forward-looking. They know this cycle of the AI hype bubble is coming to an end, so to put it simply, this earnings release is as good as it will get for a while. The market believes there's nowhere to go but down from here.

if they are so forward looking why did they pump the stock just a few months back
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