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NVIDIA Revenue Breakdown

NVIDIA generated $13.52 billion from the graphics segment in 2024, compared to $47.40 billion from the compute and network segment. Compared to almost $27 billion in revenue in 2023, of which $15 billion came from computing and networking and $11 billion from graphics. In contrast to 2022, where $27 billion in revenue came, over $15.8 billion came from graphics and $11 billion from computing and networking. With the explosion of AI, the computing segment has become the main driver of NVIDIA’s growth.

NVIDIA has become a key player in the tech revolution of the last ten years.

With the advent of cloud computing and parallel computing, NVIDIA, with its GPU, has become the company enabling the current AI revolution.

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Graphics processing units (GPUs) were initially conceived to accelerate 3D graphic rendering in video games. However, more recently, they have become popular in artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) contexts. In fact, GPUs are critical components of AI Supercomputers, like Azure, which are powering up the current AI revolution.

Started as a critical component in gaming, the GPU has become a key component in the AI industry. This trend was further consolidated and accelerated thanks to the meteoric rise of ChatGPT by OpenAI.

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ChatGPT’s meteoric rise saw the app grow from almost 37 million global searches per month in December to over 83 million global searches in January. By February, it passed almost 154 million searches.

Indeed, today, the AI supercomputer is what enabled a tool like ChatGPT (which underlying technology is called a large language model) to become so powerful.

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In this context, the compute segment has become the critical driver for the company’s growth.

Nvidia Compute Revenue
NVIDIA generated $47.40 billion in computing revenue in 2024, compared to $15 billion in computing revenue for 2023, $11 billion in 2022, and $6.84 billion in 2021. The increased adoption and explosion of the AI industry have pushed this growth, which is driven by the GPU.

Passing the core graphics segment by early 2023!

nvidia-revenue-evolution
NVIDIA generated $13.52 billion from the graphics segment in 2024, compared to $47.40 billion from the compute and network segment. Compared to almost $27 billion in revenue in 2023, of which $15 billion came from computing and networking and $11 billion from graphics. In contrast to 2022, where $27 billion in revenue came, over $15.8 billion came from graphics and $11 billion from computing and networking. With the explosion of AI, the computing segment has become the main driver of NVIDIA’s growth.

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Who Owns NVIDIA

Who Owns NVIDIA?
The top individual shareholder of NVIDIA is Jen-Hsun Huang, founder and CEO of the company, with 86,878,193 shares, giving him 3.51% ownership. He is followed by Mark A. Stevens, venture capitalist and a partner at S-Cubed Capital, who was part of the NVIDIA board in 2008 and previously served as a director from 1993 to 2006, with 4,442,786 shares. Top institutional investors comprise The Vanguard Group, Inc., 204,600,119, owning 8.27%. BlackRock, Inc., with 179,816,144, owns 7.27%. And FMR LLC (Fidelity Institutional Asset Management) with 138,693,959, owning 5.61%.

NVIDIA Business Model

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NVIDIA is a GPU design company, which develops and sells enterprise chips for industries spacing from gaming, data centers, professional visualizations, and autonomous driving. NVIDIA serves major large corporations as enterprise customers, and it uses a platform strategy where it combines its hardware with software tools to enhance its GPUs’ capabilities.

NVIDIA Revenue

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NVIDIA generated $60.92 billion in revenue in 2024, compared to almost $27 billion in revenue in 2023, the same revenue value in 2022, and over $16.6 billion in 2021.

NVIDIA Revenue Breakdown

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NVIDIA generated $13.52 billion from the graphics segment in 2024, compared to $47.40 billion from the compute and network segment. Compared to almost $27 billion in revenue in 2023, of which $15 billion came from computing and networking and $11 billion from graphics. In contrast to 2022, where $27 billion in revenue came, over $15.8 billion came from graphics and $11 billion from computing and networking. With the explosion of AI, the computing segment has become the main driver of NVIDIA’s growth.

NVIDIA Revenue By Segment

Nvidia Revenue By Segment
NVIDIA generated over $60 billion by January 2024, of which $13.52 billion came from graphics and $47.4 billion from computing and networks. Compared almost $27 billion in revenue in 2023, of which over $15 billion came from competing & networking and $11.9 billion from graphics. Through its GPU, NVIDIA is powering up the AI supercomputing revolution, which is part of the current AI paradigm.

NVIDIA Profits

Nvidia Profits
NVIDIA generated $29.76 billion in profits in 2024, compared to $4.37 billion in net profits in 2023, over $9.7 billion in profits in 2022 and $4.3 billion in 2021.

NVIDIA Employees

NVIDIA Employees
NVIDIA had 29,600 employees as of January 2024, 26,196 employees as of January 2023, 22,473 employees in the same period of 2022, and 18,975 in the same period of 2021.

NVIDIA Revenue Per Employee

NVIDIA Revenue Per Employees
In 2024, NVIDIA generated $2,058,176 per employee compared to $1,029,699 per employee in 2023, nearly $1.2 million in revenue per employee in 2022.

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AI Supercomputer

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Transformer

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The transformer architecture – sometimes referred to as the transformer neural network or transformer model – is an architecture that endeavors to solve sequence-to-sequence tasks while easily handling long-range dependencies.

GPU vs. TPU

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OpenAI Business Model

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OpenAI has built the foundational layer of the AI industry. With large generative models like GPT-3 and DALL-E, OpenAI offers API access to businesses that want to develop applications on top of its foundational models while being able to plug these models into their products and customize these models with proprietary data and additional AI features. On the other hand, OpenAI also released ChatGPT, developing around a freemium model. Microsoft also commercializes opener products through its commercial partnership.

OpenAI/Microsoft

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OpenAI and Microsoft partnered up from a commercial standpoint. The history of the partnership started in 2016 and consolidated in 2019, with Microsoft investing a billion dollars into the partnership. It’s now taking a leap forward, with Microsoft in talks to put $10 billion into this partnership. Microsoft, through OpenAI, is developing its Azure AI Supercomputer while enhancing its Azure Enterprise Platform and integrating OpenAI’s models into its business and consumer products (GitHub, Office, Bing).

Stability AI Business Model

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Stability AI is the entity behind Stable Diffusion. Stability makes money from our AI products and from providing AI consulting services to businesses. Stability AI monetizes Stable Diffusion via DreamStudio’s APIs. While it also releases it open-source for anyone to download and use. Stability AI also makes money via enterprise services, where its core development team offers the chance to enterprise customers to service, scale, and customize Stable Diffusion or other large generative models to their needs.

Stability AI Ecosystem

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