Nvidia announced its fourth-quarter earnings last night, hitting a record full-year revenue of $130.5 billion — a 114% year-over-year increase owing to the high demand for its AI chips. But despite its massive sales growth, many gamers and enthusiasts feel they’re being ignored, especially as the company only mentioned the RTX 50-series shortage but did not explain why it was happening nor say how it was dealing with the problem.
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Team Green’s bread and butter used to be gaming GPUs, with the segment making up most of its sales until 2022. However, the launch of ChatGPT made artificial intelligence more accessible to the public, and many tech companies started spending billions of dollars to buy the hardware needed to train these models — such as the data center GPUs that Nvidia makes. Because of this massive demand, the company soon became the world’s most valuable by market capitalization.