Data Center Revenue

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This is really interesting. If you look at invidiasm, they report financials a couple diferent ways. One of the ways they break it out is few different segments of the gaming, consumer segment, and then their datu segmentd. It's like, data center. Go in the data set, will all the data sextantsy right? All f the stuff we're talking about, it's all done in the data center. And so tet was got any excuse to sell off it, tuck put anyway that would short live the 50 persent dip. Because with the use case, and specifically the enterprise use case for g p, use for deep learning,

By 2012, NVIDIA was on a decade-long road to nowhere. Or so most rational observers of the company thought. CEO Jensen Huang was plowing all the cash from the company’s gaming business into building a highly speculative platform with few clear use cases and no obviously large market opportunity. And then... a miracle happened. A miracle that led not only to Nvidia becoming the 8th largest market cap company in the world, but also nearly every internet and technology innovation that’s happened in the decade since. Machines learned how to learn. And they learned it... on Nvidia.

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