NVIDIA Corporation – New growth drivers signalled

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Nvidia Corporation – De-risked valuations, rapid AI momentum

 

Nvidia Corporation – Robust earnings visibility on AI demand

 

NVIDIA Corporation – Data centre segment still growing

 

 

NVIDIA Corporation – Blackwell’s growth offset impact from China

 

Nvidia Corporation – Short term headwinds, but Blackwell starts to ramp

 

Nvidia Corporation – Moving more AI into autos, consumer and robotics

 

NVIDIA Corporation – Waiting for Blackwell ramp

 

 

Nvidia Corp. – No change in the growth story

 

NVIDIA Corporation – Extending market dominance

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Positives

+ Revenue outperformed again, led by 5x YoY growth in Data Centre (Hopper) demand. NVDA’s US$26bn in revenue for 1Q25 outperformed again, beating its own guidance by 9% (US$2bn). Growth more than tripled YoY for a 3rd straight quarter, led mostly by a 5x/3x YoY increase in demand for its DC compute/networking products like Hopper/InfiniBand – from Cloud hyperscalers and consumer internet companies. Inferencing made up ~40% of DC revenue, with sequential DC growth driven by Tesla’s 35K H100 GPUs expansion. NVDA’s gaming segment also grew 18% YoY due to strong end-customer demand for AI PCs equipped with its GeForce RTX GPUs and normalized channel inventory levels.

+ NVDA working hard on increasing supply, 1Q25 results imply ~US$4bn sequential ramp. NVDA’s DC revenue of US$22.6bn implies a sequential increase of ~US$4bn. Given NVDA’s comments on trying to acquire more supply, coupled with current demand-supply dynamics, we assume that most of this came from an increase in chip supply from TSMC. Since 1Q24, DC revenue has also increased sequentially at this US$4bn-US$5bn rate. We expect this rate of increase to continue at least until the end of the year given the 1) current strength in demand and 2) Blackwell shipments beginning in 2Q25e (higher ASPs vs Hopper), which would imply ~US$113bn-US$115bn DC revenue for FY25e – 30% higher than our previous estimates.

+ Aggressive yearly product launch beyond FY25e, low risk of product transition. CEO Jensen Huang reiterated its focus on launching new products at a faster cadence (annually) as it looks to continue outpacing its competitors, announcing a new AI GPU chip after Blackwell that is slated to launch next year officially. Concerns over the risk of customers waiting for newer chips were also alleviated as Hyperscalers average into newer technologies given the early stages of their accelerated compute build-out. In addition, newer platforms like Blackwell are backward compatible, meaning no transitional issues from Hopper.

 

 

The Negative

- Nil.

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