Yesterday NVIDIA company reported about its activity results in the fourth quarter 2009 ( financial years ), which ended on 25 January 2009 . Like many computer producers , NVIDIA could not avoid reduction in the sales and gain volumes .
In particular, the gain volume for the fourth quarter composed $481,1 mln. This up to 46% is lower than in the third quarter, and up to 60% lower than in the analogous period in the previous year.
Clean NVIDIA losses in the fourth quarter were $147,7 mln. Gain from the realization of desktop graphical solutions were lowered by 34% and by up to 63% from the realization of mobile graphical solutions . In the latter case, we note a tendency to the side of more accessible notebook with an integrated video core. Large hopes in this sense NVIDIA lays on the ion platform , which includes the processors Intel atom and integrated GeForce 9400M chipset.
In the annual expression NVIDIA gain was reduced from $4,1 billion to $3,4 billion, which corresponds to 16-17%. The fourth quarter came out the heaviest, since NVIDIA loss began during November, when financial crises throughout the world were worsened.
NVIDIA is one of the few companies , which not only does not reduce the number of its personnel, but also continues to hire colleagues in separate posts. Thus, in the fourth quarter NVIDIA already added 127 men, and in all the year it accepted up to 435 men. The total number of company personnel is equal to 5420 men. In this case , NVIDIA management recognized, that it is necessary to hold in control the increase rates of personnel under the crisis conditions .