Nvidia Pulls Through Crypto Winter — Quarterly Earnings Rise 16% (#GotBitcoin?)

Major global chipmaker Nvidia, popular with cryptocurrency miners, has outstripped analysts’ expectations with its latest set of quarterly financials. Nvidia Pulls Through Crypto Winter — Quarterly Earnings Rise 16% (#GotBitcoin?)

The firm’s Second Quarter Fiscal 2020, published on Aug. 16, revealed $2.58 billion in revenue at earnings of $1.24 per share — as compared with $2.2 billion in the preceding quarter.

Still 17% Down From Crypto-Driven Highs

While the latest results reveal a solid 16% increase over the previous quarter, year-on-year revenue remains down by 17%. Nvidia had earned $3.12 billion during the same period for the fiscal year 2019 amid massive demand for GPUs from cryptocurrency miners.

The firm’s outlook for the forthcoming quarter is a higher revenue of $2.9 billion, give or take 2 percent.

Alongside developments in its GPU output, the firm also highlighted the progress of its artificial intelligence business, as well as the ongoing profitability of its gaming business segment, which remains the main driver of its revenue.

Buoyed by the latest quarterly results, Nvidia’s stock (NASDAQ: NVDA) rose by 6.2%.

Weathering The Crypto Seasons

This January, Nvidia had decreased its financial estimates for Q4 for the fiscal year of 2019, citing a decline in mining during the crypto bear market among its reasons.

In December 2018, a class action lawsuit was launched against Nvidia over the losses reported by the company when lower crypto prices diminished demand for GPUs by miners.

The extent of Nvidia’s crypto-driven success during the market’s historic bull run has been the subject of some controversy: earlier this year, a financial analyst claimed that between April 2017 to July 2018 the firm had in fact raked in $1.35 billion more in revenue from mining-related sales than officially stated.

During crypto winter this March, Nvidia said it would manage to sell off the surplus inventory it had accumulated in anticipation of continued mining-driven demand — stock that CEO Jensen Huang had characterized as a “crypto hangover.”

Updated: 7-1-2020

Nvidia Files Motion to Dismiss $1B Class Action Over Crypto GPU Sales

Nvidia has filed for the dismissal of a complaint alleging it fraudulently attributed over $1 billion in sales to gaming markets amid the 2017 crypto bubble.

Major manufacturer of graphics processing units (GPUs) and computing hardware Nvidia has filed a motion to dismiss a proposed class-action lawsuit alleging that the firm misrepresented more $1 billion in sales during 2017 and 2018.

In addition to its popular ‘GeForce’ and ‘GTX’ products — favored by both gamers and crypto miners — Nvidia launched a GPU specifically designed for virtual currency mining dubbed ‘Crypto SKU’ in May 2017.

However, Nvidia reported only its Crypto SKU sales as having been made to cryptocurrency miners, and investors claim this misrepresented $1.126 billion in other sales as having been driven by demand from the gaming market.

In the motion to dismiss, Nvidia asserts that statements issued by its executives made it clear to investors at the time that it was impossible to know the exact purpose for which customers were purchasing the GPUs.

Nvidia Rejects Amended Complaint From Investors

Nvidia cites an August 16, 2018 earnings call in which the firm’s founder and chief executive Jensen Huang stated “whether they buy it for mining or do they buy it for gaming, it’s kind of hard to say” in regards to the firm’s GeForce GPU sales.

As such, Nvidia claims that its executives did not lie when they described crypto sales as representing a “small” portion of its revenue, as alleged in the amended lawsuit.

The firm also emphasizes that the original complaint was dismissed due to the allegations relying “entirely” on a report produced by Prysm Group — with the court rejecting the suit on the basis of the plaintiffs’ failure to plead in favor of the “assumptions and analysis” laid out in the Prysm report.

Amended Complaint Relies On Flawed Data

Similarly, Nvidia asserts that the amended complaint fails by relying on the findings from a 2018 report into the impact of crypto mining on the firm’s sales that was authored by consulting firm Jon Peddie Research:

“The Jon Peddie estimate rests on a host of unidentified and unexplained assumptions and inputs, which the [first amended complaint] does not allege that Prysm investigated at all. This renders Prysm’s analysis even less reliable than before.”

The firm also claims that the complaint selectively quotes its executives to mischaracterize states made concerning its GPU sales, and fails to address shortcoming previously identified by the judge.

Updated: 9-18-2020

Nvidia Doesn’t Want To Give Up Its 2017 ‘Crypto Craze’ Docs

Nvidia is trying not to hand over internal documents to plaintiffs who allege that the GPU manufacturer misrepresented its financials during the 2017 bull run.

The legal representatives of technology company Nvidia have argued that its investors are not entitled to access its internal records about the “crypto craze” of 2017 and 2018.

During a trial in the United States’ Delaware Court of Chancery on Sept. 17, Nvidia’s counsel argued that the plaintiffs have failed to show a “credible basis” for why Nvidia should be compelled to hand over the requested company documents.

Nvidia is facing a class-action lawsuit alleging that it misled investors as to how much its revenue relied on crypto miners buying its graphics processing units amid the 2017 bull run.

Patrick Gibbs of Cooley LLP criticized the plaintiffs’ decision to “rest on a paper record” at trial without offering live testimony as to their purpose for demanding that Nvidia hand over its internal documents. He also argued that evidence has been presented proving that the investors behind the suit currently own stock in Nvidia and thus maintain an interest in the suit.

The court advised both parties to submit post-trial briefings addressing Nvidia’s argument for why it should not hand over its internal records.

The lawsuit alleges that Nvidia made “false and misleading public statements concerning the company’s internal controls, prospects, and earnings.” The suit also levies accusations that Nvidia simultaneously sold $147 million worth of its shares “at artificially inflated prices.”

The investors allege that after launching its GPU dedicated to cryptocurrency in May 2017, the Crypto SKU, Nvidia solely attributed the sales of the SKU to miners to demand from miners.

Additionally, the plaintiffs estimate that $1 billion worth of the company’s popular GeForce GPU sales that Nvidia claims were purchased by gamers in 2017 were actually purchased by crypto miners.

After the crypto bubble popped and demand from miners began to dry up, Nvidia’s struggled to offload its GPU inventories and saw a 30% crash in its stock price by the end of 2018.

Updated: 2-24-2021

Nvidia Estimates Ethereum Miners Contributed 2%-6% of Q4 Revenue

Nvidia expects $50 million in revenue from its new mining-specific product during its first quarter of sales.

Nvidia says Ethereum mining activity contributed very little to its Q4 2020 revenue.

Although it lacks “the ability to accurately track or quantify” the end uses of its graphic processing units (GPUs), Nvidia CFO Colette Kress said the company estimates that between $100 million and $300 million—a “relatively small portion”—of Q4 revenue came from Ethereum miners buying GPUs to use in their mining equipment.

Nvidia reported a total of $5 billion in revenue for the Q4, implying mining sales represented 2%-6% of total.

Ethereum’s hash rate has grown 124% in the past year, according to data from Coin Metrics, in tandem with the general cryptocurrency market’s rally. This has driven demand for Nvidia’s GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card, much to the dismay of the company’s gaming customers. In the future, though, miner-contributed revenue for Nvidia is likely to come from purchases of another of the company’s products.

Nvidia earlier this week said it’s altering its GeForce RTX 3060 graphics card to limit its own efficiency if the card detects it’s being used for Ethereum mining, a move designed to ensure GPU supply is available to gamers. “We would like GPUs to end up with gamers,” Kress said on the company’s earnings call Wednesday.

To serve the mining community, the company is launching Cryptocurrency Mining Processors (CMPs), which are “optimized to improve Ethereum mining” and will give the company “more visibility” into the share of revenue contributed by cryptocurrency miners, Kress said.

Nvidia plans to sell its new CMPs to industrial Ethereum miners and expects the mining-specific product to generate roughly $50 million in revenue during its first quarter of sales. Nvidia also plans to quantify miner revenue contributions in all future quarterly earnings reports.

Nvidia Supply Shortage Won’t Stop $50M Q1 Crypto Miner Sales, Says CFO

A perfect storm consisting of COVID-19, supply shortages and surging crypto prices has resulted in the best financial quarter in Nvidia’s history, as the stock hits all-time highs.

Nvidia’s ongoing supply problems won’t stop the company from selling $50 million worth of its new CMP chip range in the first quarter of 2021, the company’s chief financial officer Colette Kress forecasted on Feb. 24.

Nvidia failed to meet demand from its core gaming customer base in 2020, and the trend looks set to continue into 2021. Added demand from a horde of cryptocurrency enthusiasts keen to direct Nvidia’s new RTX 30 series GPU to Ether (ETH) mining initially appeared to pile pressure on the company.

But the firm’s CFO expects the recently announced Cryptocurrency Mining Processor product line to hit $50 million in sales in the first quarter of the year. The CMP range is designed specifically for Ether mining, and its introduction was part of an attempt to allocate more units of its RTX 30 range to gamers.

Despite supply problems, Nvidia hit record revenues of $5 billion in the last quarter of 2020, while its stock price soared to all-time highs. This is a near-exact repeat of the market conditions present in 2018, when increased demand amid supply shortages pushed the stock price to the highest level in its history up to that time.

On Wednesday, United States President Joe Biden signed an executive order to address the shortage of semiconductors and microchips. A critical review will investigate the country’s failing supply lines, which have been shown to rely too much on Chinese manufacturing, highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The chip shortage boosted the value of the PHLX Semiconductor Index, which tracks the value of chip-related stocks, with the index gaining 70% in the past 12 months.

JPMorgan analyst Harlan Sur expects the pump to continue, even though the supply shortage won’t be corrected for some time.

Sur recently told MarketWatch, “We believe semi companies are shipping 10% to 30% BELOW current demand levels and it will take at least 3-4 quarters for supply to catch up with demand and then another 1-2 quarters for inventories at customers/distribution channels to be replenished back to normal levels.”

Sur said the previous quarter was the first in which every chip maker JPMorgan tracked actually exceeded forecasted earnings.

Updated: 4-13-2021

Nvidia Triples Revenue Forecast For Crypto Mining GPU Sales

The California chipmaker says quarter one financials for fiscal year 2022 are on track to surpass initial estimates, with demand for crypto mining graphics cards on the rise.

Nvidia said the positive performance of its various market segments has seen the company revise its initial forecasts for the first quarter of fiscal year 2022.

The company made this known during its annual investor day on Monday, revealing the total revenue for quarter one is already tracking above the $5.30 billion forecast included in its previous end-of-year earnings call.

This positive market performance has also extended to Nvidia’s graphics processing unit sector, with the company raising its first-quarter revenue estimate for its cryptocurrency mining processor, or CMP, product threefold to $150 million.

Indeed, as previously reported by Cointelegraph, Nvidia had set its initial forecast for crypto miner sales for quarter one at $50 million back in February.

According to Nvidia’s press release, surging demand is at the heart of its optimistic outlook, with Colette Kress, executive vice president and chief financial officer of the chipmaker, adding:

“Overall demand remains very strong and continues to exceed supply while our channel inventories remain quite lean. We expect demand to continue to exceed supply for much of this year. We believe we will have sufficient supply to support sequential growth beyond Q1.”

Nvidia’s threefold increase in revenue estimates for its CMP product are yet another indication of the surging demand for crypto mining hardware. In March, cryptocurrency mining firm Hut 8 announced the purchase of $30 million worth of Nvidia GPU hardware.

The Hut 8 order alone filled 60% of Nvidia’s initial CMP estimate, and it is perhaps unsurprising to see the company up its outlook for the rest of quarter one of fiscal year 2022.

Soaring demand for Nvidia GPUs has also meant shortages for gamers, with resellers electing to transact with miners ready to pay significant premiums to acquire the company’s hardware.

Updated: 5-27-2021

Nvidia Reports Record Earnings, Claims It’s ‘Hard To Determine’ Impact Of Crypto Miners

Despite the surging crypto market rally, Nvidia believes its record first-quarter earnings are the result of high demand from the gaming industry.

Nvidia, a leading manufacturer of graphics processing units, or GPUs, has announced record earnings for Q1 2021. However, the firm has downplayed the role of the crypto bull market in driving its impressive performance, primarily attributing demand for its products to gamers.

The firm reported an 84% increase in sales overall, with the impressive performance owing to a period of sustained growth despite global shortages of semiconductors.

Nvidia’s sales and earnings both surpassed the expectations with Wall Street, reporting revenue of $5.66 billion and earnings of $3.66 per share after pundits had predicted earnings of $3.28 per share and revenue of $5.41 billion.

Nvidia claims demand from the video game sector more than doubled in the past 12 months, producing annual growth of 106% to drive $2.76 billion in sales. CFO Colette Kress, emphasized surging demand for its consumer GeForce GPUs from gamers and students.

Its graphics segment represented $3.45 billion in revenue with an 81% increase. However, Nvidia estimates demand from crypto miners represented just $155 million worth of its sales.

The company recently took action to deter crypto miners from purchasing its GPUs earlier this year by adding software that limits the hashing capabilities of its GTX RTX 3060 units.

While the firm noted that cryptocurrency miners had a positive impact on demand for GPUs, Nvidia determined “it is hard to determine to what extent” revenues could be attributed to the sector.

Despite its impressive performance, Nvidia expects its recent supply woes will continue for the coming months, predicting GPUs will be in short supply during the second half of the year.

Nvidia chief executive, Jensen Huang, predicted the firm’s forthcoming CMP chips — specialized units dedicated to mining cryptocurrency — will help ease the problem as miner demand for its regular GPUs falls. He said:

“CMP yields better, and producing those doesn’t take away from the supply of GeForce. So it protects supply for the gamers.”

Previous efforts to launch specialized mining hardware — notably the Crypto SKU units — have landed Nvidia in hot water, with shareholders claiming the firm misrepresented to investors that half of its GPU sales were made to crypto miners during 2017 and 2018, resulting in inaccurate forecasts regarding demand for GPUs from gamers amid the crypto bear trend. Nvidia won the case in March of this year.

Updated: 8-19-2021

Nvidia Fails To Sell As Many Crypto-Mining GPUs As Expected In Q2

The company expects a minimal contribution from its cryptocurrency mining processor sales going forward.

Nvidia beat the expectations by generating over $6.5 billion in revenue, but the chip manufacturer missed the target for its crypto-mining GPU line.

The California-based tech giant announced its financial results for its second fiscal quarter ended Aug. 1, 2021. Key highlights include $6.51 billion in revenue, 15% up from the first quarter, and $1.04 billion earnings, both largely bolstered by gaming, data center and professional visualization equipment sales.

With the addition of GeForce RTX 3080 Ti and RTX 3070 Ti, the gaming segment led the record growth with $3.06 billion in revenue and an 85% growth from last year. Nvidia’s data center business brought in $2.37 billion in revenue, while its professional visualization products earned $519 million.

Nvidia announced that the company is expecting $6.80 billion in revenue in the third fiscal quarter.

However, one key area fell short of expectations, the earnings call revealed. During the first-quarter earnings call, Nvidia CFO Colette Kress predicted a $400 million revenue for the company’s cryptocurrency mining processor (CMP) line for Q2. Nvidia saw $266 million in CMP sales in the second fiscal quarter, missing its target by a one-third gap. The CMP line was introduced in February and made $155 million in the first quarter.

Nvidia is having a hard time balancing the supply between hardcore gamers and crypto miners for its high-end graphics units. The company introduced hash rate limiters to its RTX 3060 series graphics cards to limit the crypto mining capabilities of the units.

At the end of May, Nvidia said it would be applying a reduced Ethereum hash rate to its newly manufactured GeForce RTX 3080, RTX 3070 and RTX 3060 Ti graphics cards. Coming with a “Lite Hash Rate” label, new cards are strictly aimed to meet the demand from gamers as opposed to crypto miners.

Explaining that the company’s recent efforts to limit the hash rate of gaming graphics cards aim to ensure enough chip supply for gamers, Kress said the company expects a “minimal contribution” from its crypto-related sales from now on.

Mining Software Appears To Have Cracked Nvidia’s Lite Hash Rate Algorithm

The exploit reportedly unlocks up to 70% of the original graphic card mining power.

The team behind mining software NBMiner claims to have partially cracked Nvidia’s anti-mining limitations.

Back in June Nvidia implemented an algorithm called Lite Hash Rate, or LHR, on all graphics cards from its RTX 30 series in an attempt to curb crypto mining. The limiter works on both the BIOS and driver level detecting mining algorithms to drastically reduce its mining power by up to 50% of its original capability.

At the time, the company claimed that miners were disrupting its supply chain, consequently increasing the price of its graphics cards due to low supply. Nvidia prioritized its gaming user base stating that “this additional step will get more GeForce cards at better prices into the hands of gamers everywhere.”

NBMiner’s most recent release has reportedly been able to bypass these limitations and increase the mining power of these graphic cards by up to 70%. The update is available on both Windows and Linux terminals and supports backup mining pool configuration. While the software is free to download, miners are required to pay the team a development fee ranging from 1% to 3% of their mining revenues.

The NB team has been developing methods to increase graphic cards performance for years and promised to develop further improvements in the future. It may not matter much, but it will once Ethereum 2.0’s much anticipated proof-of-stake algorithm kicks in.

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