Nvidia year in review | Network World

And there was much more announced at the show, including new network cards and InfiniBand switches, significant updates and new features in Enterprise AI software, and a storage partner verification service.

Nvidia also unveiled its next-generation AI supercomputer, the DGX SuperPOD10. SuperPOD10, equipped with GB200 Grace Blackwell superchips, is capable of processing trillion-parameter models for large-scale generative AI with 11.5 exaflops of performance using FP4 data types and 240 TB of fast memory.

NVIDIA stock split

For the first fiscal quarter of 2025, which ended April 28, 2024, Nvidia reported revenue of $26 billion, up 18% from the previous quarter and up 262% year-over-year. Operating income rose to $16.9 billion, up 24% from the previous quarter and up 690% from a year earlier. GAAP earnings per diluted share were $5.98, up 21% from the prior quarter and up 629% from a year ago. All of these figures significantly exceeded Wall Street analysts’ expectations.

Nvidia also announced a 10-for-1 stock split, effective in June. Nvidia stock soared to over $1,000 per share.

Blackwell systems appear, Rubin is teased

At the large-scale exhibition of computer equipment Computex, Nvidia revealed new Blackwell-based systems that he says will allow enterprises to build “AI factories” and data centers to fuel the next wave of generative AI.

Nvidia also announced that its modular Nvidia MGX reference design platform, announced at the 2003 Computex show, now supports Blackwell products. The company has launched the new Nvidia GB200 NVL2 platform, a smaller version of the GB200 NVL72 introduced in March, which it says will speed up processing by up to 18 times and be 8 times more energy efficient than using x86 processors.