Nvidia, a leading technology company in the artificial intelligence (AI) industry, reported impressive financial results for the first quarter of fiscal 2025. The company's revenue reached an all-time high of $26.0 billion, marking a significant 18% increase from the previous quarter and an astonishing 262% surge from a year ago.
The Data Center business, which is crucial for Nvidia's growth in the AI space, saw record revenue of $22.6 billion. This represents a substantial 23% increase compared to the previous quarter and an impressive 427% gain from a year ago.
Nvidia's CEO, Jensen Huang, announced that generative AI has expanded to various industries such as consumer internet companies, enterprise, sovereign AI, automotive and healthcare. This expansion has created multiple multibillion-dollar vertical markets for Nvidia.
The Blackwell platform is now in full production and serves as the foundation for trillion-parameter-scale generative AI. Additionally, Spectrum-X opens a new market for Nvidia to bring large-scale AI to Ethernet-only data centers.
Nvidia also announced a ten-for-one forward stock split effective June 7, 2024, and raised the quarterly cash dividend by 150% to $0.01 per share on a post-split basis.
Despite these impressive results, Nvidia faces growing competition from in-house AI chips from major tech giants like Amazon and Alphabet. The company has also had to contend with US restrictions on exports of advanced AI chips to China.