back to article PCs? Eh, who needs 'em? Nvidia asks while hoovering up more cash

Nvidia says its last quarter set record high marks for revenues, as returns were up across the board. For the second quarter of fiscal 2017 – the three months to July 31 this year – the California-based GPU specialists logged: Revenues of $1.43bn, a 24 per cent increase over last year's $1.15bn. Net income of $253m was up …

  1. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    um yea, of course

    They got $650 from me last month for my most excellent GTX 1080 (and a LOT of folks spent a LOT more than I did on them). Until now, $300 is the most I've ever spent on a video card, but this gen hop was awfully tasty. I got about 5 times FPS increase, which is how I justified the cost.

    Don't spend it all in one place Nvidia... unless that place is to make your next video card a little cheaper for us. I can't afford this much every year (well, technically I can, but I'm not going to). You've been warned.

  2. AlexS
    Childcatcher

    I'm a cheapo person having bought a GTX1070. I look up to him as he has a GTX 1080, but I look down on those who has bought a GTX 1060. The others know their place.

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Yeah, right

    "We have made significant investments over the past five years to evolve our entire GPU computing stack for deep learning"

    I call horseshit on that one.

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