Nvidia’s sales of its artificial intelligence chipsets remained a hot commodity during the company’s latest quarter, but the demand wasn’t quite feverish enough to ease recent worries that the AI craze may be fading.
The results announced Wednesday were hotly anticipated because Nvidia has emerged as key barometer of a two-year-old AI boom that has been propelling the stock market to new heights. The Silicon Valley chipmaker also became the first publicly traded company to achieve a $4 trillion market value.
In recent weeks, though, research reports and comments by prominent tech executives have raised investor fears that the AI mania has been overblown.
And now Nvidia’s latest numbers covering the May-July period may feed those perceptions because the sales of the company’s proces