As of the end of the third quarter of October 29, NVIDIA quarter net profit reached 838 million US dollars, combined earnings per share of 1.33 US dollars, compared with 542 million US dollars last year, combined earnings per share of 0.83 US dollars, earnings per share increased 41% Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S data show that analysts on average expected earnings per share of 0.94 US dollars, revenue of 2.36 billion US dollars.
In the third quarter, NVIDIA's most significant game chip revenue increased 25.5% to 1.56 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for nearly 60% of total revenue in Q3, according to Thomson Reuters I / B / E / S data, which is higher than analysts On average, the latter's expected revenue is $ 1.31 billion However, NVIDIA's growth relies on many newer areas, such as artificial intelligence, driverless cars (with its first chip introduced in October) and its data center Clients include Amazon Web Services, Amazon's cloud computing service, and Azure, Microsoft's cloud computing platform.
Revenues from data center operations more than doubled to $ 501 million, surpassing analyst estimates of $ 444.2 million. Automotive revenues rose 13.3% to $ 144 million but fell below analyst estimates of $ 149.8 million The company raised its dividend to 7% to $ 0.15 a share and plans to return $ 1.25 billion to shareholders in the next fiscal year.