NVIDIA reported the financial results of the first quarter 2013, which ended in the calendar of the company on 29 April, 2012.
The company managed to gain for the quarter $ 924.9 million , nearly three percent less than in the previous quarter. Net income NVIDIA limited to the amount of $ 60.4 million , significantly less than $ 116 million received earlier quarter. The rate of return fell from 51.4% to 50.1%. In such a dynamic NVIDIA blames the shortage of 28 nm graphics generation Kepler.
Indicators of NVIDIA Unit , dealing with the release of graphics processors, in the last quarter declined by 6.7% due to the continuing shortage of production capacity of 28 nm by TSMC. In the second quarter the problem is unlikely to dissipate, and NVIDIA expects that the situation will normalize towards the end of this year. However, in the second quarter volumes of 28 nm chips NVIDIA will increase substantially. Almost 30% of all delivered NVIDIA graphics solutions in this quarter will be released on 28 nm technology.
In the second quarter, NVIDIA expects to gain $ 990 million and raise the profit margin to 51.5%. Tegra processors are selling better than expected - growth for the quarter amounted to more than 50%. As explained by Jensen Huang, produced on 40 nm technology Tegra processors do not suffer from deficit of 28 nm chips , and it can be seen as an advantage. In the second half will appear on Tegra-based smartphones with three modems LTE-party developers. Juan places great hopes on Tegra in connection with the upcoming release of Windows RT.
In March, was presented the first ultrabook (Acer Aspire M3) based on a series of graphic solutions GeForce 600M. Next week, NVIDIA head promises to tell more about the new features in Kepler field of cloud computing. Presumably, it will focus on the generation of accelerators Tesla Kepler.