It is going to affect every industry, and leaders of every type of organization are going to be wishing that they had looked into it sooner. It is going to have an impact the size of the impact of the internet, or as Andrew Ng suggests, the impact of electricity. It is not just the 2016 version of “big data” (which has always been an empty buzzword). Either way, this obscures what a complete game-changer deep learning is. It was not entirely clear if he was saying that these are all terms for the same thing (they are most definitely not!) or if he was suggesting that the “in” data-driven approach changes from year to year. Dixon said many totally reasonable things in his talk–but it’s no fun to comment on them, so I’m going to focus on something rather unreasonable that he said, which was: “A few years ago it was called big data and then it was machine learning and now it’s called deep learning”. 'We were challenged this quarter with a fair amount of supply chain challenges.At the Financial Times-Nikkei conference on The Future of AI, Robots, and Us a few weeks ago, Andreessen Horowitz partner Chris Dixon spoke just before Jeremy Howard and I were on stage. 'We're seeing a great deal of demand for GPUs in the cloud,' Huang said on the call. A copy of the Purchase Agreement is filed as Exhibit 10.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K and is incorporated herein by reference. Huang told analysts on the call that the company also faced supply chain challenges that prevented it from selling more systems to data centers. 'I know the demand is strong, but we expected the demand to be even stronger,' Huang told Reuters about the write down of data center inventory. Nvidia said it took a $1.34 billion charge in the second quarter as it wrote down inventory built up when it thought the gaming and data center markets would be much stronger.

The gaming industry has been showing signs of weakness as consumers pull back from discretionary purchases such as video-gaming gear amid decades-high inflation. Data center revenue held up at $3.81 billion, up 61% year on year. Its gaming division posted revenue of $2.04 billion, down 33% year on year. The company's second quarter revenue of $6.70 billion was significantly lower than the $8.10 billion Nvidia forecast in May.

Nvda earnings date 2017