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NVIDIA FY23Q4 Earnings Call Notes

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  • Gaming sequential growth driven mainly by strong RTX 40 series sales; Switch SoC down; gaming demand stable in other regions and showing recovery signs in China; >400 games support ray tracing/DLSS; GFN users >25M across 100+ countries.

  • Data center: North America cloud customers up year over year; China down year over year and sequentially due to bans; despite some cloud customers pausing plans in Q4, hyperscale revenue still grew strongly sequentially; despite weak economy, AI/GPU demand remains very strong; CSP revenue > vertical, more enterprises cloud-first; CSP TTM revenue 40% of data center; H100 second quarter of shipments, revenue already exceeded A100, A100 down sequentially.

  • Visualization workstations still in inventory correction, expected to end by H1; desktop workstations up sequentially, concentrated in auto, manufacturing and other verticals; Omniverse downloads >300K.

  • NV AI Enterprise 3.0 ($5K per unit? too expensive?) supports 50+ frameworks and pre-trained models; announced AI cloud service business; launched DGX Cloud, browser-accessed, already on Oracle Cloud and Microsoft Azure; Google GCP and others on the way.

  • Networking revenue up year over year but below expectations due to slowing traditional CPU server demand; InfiniBand kept growing, strong cloud/enterprise/supercomputing demand.

  • Q4 repurchased $1.05B, dividends $100M; $7.23B buyback authorization remaining through Dec 2023.

  • FY24 capex expected $1.1-1.3B, Q1 $350-400M.

  • Signed 10-year partnership with Microsoft to bring Xbox games to GFN; post-Activision Blizzard close, those titles will join GFN.

  • Guides Q1 data center and gaming up significantly sequentially; data center can grow year over year; visualization and auto up slightly sequentially; software revenue continues growing, in the hundreds of millions, details at GTC; expects FY24 data center full-year year-over-year growth, accelerating after Q1.

  • Auto business record high, growth includes development agreements; Mercedes' future software revenue split 50-50.

  • Gross inventory purchase and long-term supply obligations were $4.92 billion and prepaid supply agreements were $3.45 billion. Other purchase obligations, inclusive of $2.23 billion of multi-year cloud service agreements, were $3.14 billion.

  • At the AI platform software layer, they will be able to access NVIDIA AI Enterprise for training and deploying large language models or other AI workloads. And at the AI-model-as-a-service layer, NVIDIA will offer its NeMo and BioNeMo customizable AI models to enterprise customers who want to build proprietary generative AI models and services for their businesses.

Originally published on the WeChat public account Eric有话说.