The following is a reconciliation of the denominator of the basic and diluted net income per share computations for the periods presented:
While we believe that we have adequately provided for all uncertain tax positions, or tax positions where we believe it is not more-likely-than-not that the position will be sustained upon review, amounts asserted by tax authorities could be greater or less than our accrued position. Accordingly, our provisions on federal, state and foreign tax related matters to be recorded in the future may change as revised estimates are made or the underlying matters are settled or otherwise resolved with the respective tax authorities. As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we do not believe that our estimates, as otherwise provided for, on such tax positions will significantly increase or decrease within the next twelve12 months.
The amortized cost and estimated fair value of cash equivalents and marketable securities which are primarily debt instruments, are classified as available-for-sale as of October 29, 2017July 31, 2022 and January 29, 2017 and30, 2022 are shown below by contractual maturity: maturity.
The fair values of our financial assets and liabilities are determined using quoted market prices of identical assets or quoted market prices of similar assets from active markets. We review the fair value hierarchy classification on a quarterly basis. There
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Litigation
Polaris Innovations Limited
On May 16, 2016, Polaris Innovations Limited, or Polaris, a non-practicing entity and wholly-owned subsidiary of Quarterhill Inc. (formerly WiLAN Inc.), filed a complaint in the United States District Court for the Western District of Texas alleging that NVIDIA has infringed and is continuing to infringe six U.S. patents relating to the control of dynamic random-access memory (DRAM). The complaint seeks unspecified monetary damages, enhanced damages, interest, fees, expenses, and costs against NVIDIA. On September 14, 2016, NVIDIA answered the Polaris Complaint and asserted various defenses including non-infringement and invalidity of the six Polaris patents.
On December 5, 2016, the Texas Court granted NVIDIA’s motion to transfer and ordered the case transferred to the Northern District of California. The California Court has not set a trial date.
On December 7, 2016, NVIDIA filed a petition for inter partes review with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) challenging the validity of U.S. Patent No. 7,886,122, which is asserted by Polaris in that California district court litigation. On December 19, 2016, NVIDIA filed an inter partes review request with the USPTO challenging the validity of U.S.
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Total gross future unconditional purchase commitments as of July 31, 2022, are as follows:
Patent No. 7,124,325, another patent asserted by Polaris. On May 5, 2017, | | | | | |
| Commitments |
| | (In millions) |
| Fiscal Year: | |
| 2023 (excluding first half of fiscal year 2023) | $ | 7,108 | |
| 2024 | 2,730 | |
| 2025 | 295 | |
| 2026 | 49 | |
| 2027 | 71 | |
| 2028 and thereafter | 331 | |
| Total | $ | 10,584 | |
Accrual for Product Warranty Liabilities
The estimated amount of product warranty liabilities was $168 million and $46 million as of July 31, 2022 and January 30, 2022, respectively. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2023, we recorded $122 million in product warranty liabilities primarily related to a defect identified in a third-party component embedded in certain Data Center products. The estimated product returns and estimated product warranty activity consisted of the following:
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| Three Months Ended | | Six Months Ended |
| July 31, | | August 1, | | July 31, | | August 1, |
| 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
| | (In millions) |
| Balance at beginning of period | $ | 55 | | | $ | 30 | | | $ | 46 | | | $ | 22 | |
| Additions | 122 | | | 4 | | | 138 | | | 15 | |
| Deductions | (9) | | | (3) | | | (16) | | | (6) | |
| Balance at end of period | $ | 168 | | | $ | 31 | | | $ | 168 | | | $ | 31 | |
In connection with certain agreements that we have entered in the past, we have provided indemnities for matters such as tax, product, and employee liabilities. We have included intellectual property indemnification provisions in our technology-related agreements with third parties. Maximum potential future payments cannot be estimated because many of these agreements do not have a maximum stated liability. We have not recorded any liability in our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for such indemnifications.
Securities Class Action and Derivative Lawsuits
The plaintiffs in the putative securities class action lawsuit, captioned 4:18-cv-07669-HSG, initially filed on December 21, 2018 in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, and titled In Re NVIDIA Corporation Securities Litigation, filed an inter partes review request withamended complaint on May 13, 2020. The amended complaint asserted that NVIDIA and certain NVIDIA executives violated Section 10(b) of the USPTO challengingSecurities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, or the validityExchange Act, and SEC Rule 10b-5, by making materially false or misleading statements related to channel inventory and the impact of U.S. Patent No. 8,161,344, another patent asserted by Polaris.cryptocurrency mining on GPU demand between May 10, 2017 and November 14, 2018. Plaintiffs also alleged that the NVIDIA executives who they named as defendants violated Section 20(a) of the Exchange Act. Plaintiffs sought class certification, an award of unspecified compensatory damages, an award of reasonable costs and expenses, including attorneys’ fees and expert fees, and further relief as the Court may deem just and proper. On MayMarch 2, 2021, the district court granted NVIDIA’s motion to dismiss the complaint without leave to amend, entered judgment in favor of NVIDIA and closed the case. On March 30, 2017, NVIDIA2021, plaintiffs filed an inter partes review request with the USPTO challenging the validity of U.S. Patent No. 6,532,505, another patent asserted by Polaris. On June 22, 2017, the USPTO instituted inter partes review of U.S Patent No. 7,886,122. On June 23, 2017, the USPTO denied institution of inter partes review of U.S. Patent No. 7,124,325. On July 25, 2017, NVIDIA filed inter partes requests with the USPTO challenging the validity of U.S. Patent No. 8,207,976, another patent asserted by Polaris. Also on July 25, 2017, NVIDIA filed inter partes requests with the USPTO for U.S. Patent No. 8,161,344 challenging the validity of further claims and an additional inter partes request for U.S. Patent No. 7,124,325. All of the patents that Polaris has assertedappeal from judgment in the U.S. litigation are now subject to requestsUnited States Court of Appeals for inter partes review, with institution decisions forthcoming.the Ninth Circuit, case number 21-15604. Oral argument on the appeal was held on May 10, 2022.
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The putative derivative lawsuit pending in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California, captioned 4:19-cv-00341-HSG, initially filed January 18, 2019 and titled In re NVIDIA filed a Motion to Stay the California actionCorporation Consolidated Derivative Litigation, was stayed pending final resolution of the inter partes reviewplaintiffs’ appeal in the In Re NVIDIA Corporation Securities Litigation action. On February 22, 2022, the court administratively closed the case, but stated that it would reopen the case once the appeal in the In Re NVIDIA Corporation Securities Litigation action is resolved. The lawsuit asserts claims, purportedly on behalf of U.S. Patents Nos. 7,886,122; 7,124,325;us, against certain officers and 8,161,344. On June 15, 2017, the Motion to Stay was granted. The action has now been stayed until December 14, 2017 pending the institutiondirectors of the inter partes reviewCompany for breach of these patents.
On December 30, 2016, NVIDIA received notice that Polaris had filed a complaint for patent infringement in Germany. The German case alleges infringementfiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, waste of European Patent No. EP1428225corporate assets, and German Patent Nos. DE 10223167violations of Sections 14(a), 10(b), and DE 1020066043668. On July 14, 2017, NVIDIA filed defenses to the infringement allegations including non-infringement with respect to each20(a) of the three asserted patents. An oral hearing has been scheduledExchange Act based on the dissemination of allegedly false and misleading statements related to channel inventory and the impact of cryptocurrency mining on GPU demand. The plaintiffs are seeking unspecified damages and other relief, including reforms and improvements to NVIDIA’s corporate governance and internal procedures.
The putative derivative actions initially filed September 24, 2019 and pending in the United States District Court for February 21, 2019.the District of Delaware, Lipchitz v. Huang, et al. (Case No. 1:19-cv-01795-UNA) and Nelson v. Huang, et. al. (Case No. 1:19-cv-01798- UNA), remain stayed pending resolution of the plaintiffs’ appeal in the In Re NVIDIA Corporation Securities Litigation action. The lawsuits assert claims, purportedly on behalf of us, against certain officers and directors of the Company for breach of fiduciary duty, unjust enrichment, insider trading, misappropriation of information, corporate waste and violations of Sections 14(a), 10(b), and 20(a) of the Exchange Act based on the dissemination of allegedly false, and misleading statements related to channel inventory and the impact of cryptocurrency mining on GPU demand. The plaintiffs seek unspecified damages and other relief, including disgorgement of profits from the sale of NVIDIA stock and unspecified corporate governance measures.
Settlement
On March 31, 2017,In May 2022, NVIDIA entered into a settlement with the German Patent Court acknowledged receiptSEC relating to MD&A disclosures in our Forms 10-Q for the second and third quarters of nullity actions filedfiscal year 2018 concerning the impact of cryptocurrency mining on year-over-year growth in revenue for our gaming specialized market during those periods. As part of the settlement, without admitting or denying the findings in the administrative order issued by the SEC, NVIDIA challenging the validity of EP1428225agreed to cease-and-desist from violating certain federal securities laws and DE 1020066043668. On June 12, 2017, NVIDIA was notified that the nullity actions against EP1428225 and DE 1020066043668 were served on Polaris and that Polaris has filedpaid a formal response opposing each nullity complaint. On July 14, 2017, the German Patent Court acknowledged receipt of a nullity action filed by NVIDIA challenging the validity of DE 10223167. On September 13, 2017, NVIDIA was notified that the nullity action against DE10223167 was served on Polaris. Polaris has not yet responded to this action.
$5.5 million civil penalty.
Accounting for Loss Contingencies
While there can be no assurance of favorable outcomes, we believe the claims made by the other party in the above ongoing matters are without merit and we intend to vigorously defend the actions. As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we have not recorded any accrual for contingent liabilities associated with the legal proceedings described above based on our belief that liabilities, while possible, are not probable. Further, except as specifically described above, any possible loss or range of loss in these matters cannot be reasonably estimated at this time. We are engaged in other legal actions not described above arising in the ordinary course of its business and, while there can be no assurance of favorable outcomes, we believe that the ultimate outcome of these actions will not have a material adverse effect on our operating results, liquidity or financial position.
Note 1314 - Shareholders’ Equity
Capital Return Program
Beginning August 2004, our Board of Directors authorized us, subject to certain specifications, to repurchase shares of our common stock.
During the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2018,2023, we repurchased a total of 119 million and 28 million shares for $3.35 billion and 6 million shares, respectively, for $151 million and $909 million,$5.34 billion, respectively. During the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2018, we also made cash dividend payments to our shareholders of $84 million and $250 million, respectively.
Through October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we have repurchased an aggregate of 251 million1.07 billion shares under our share repurchase program for a total cost of $5.50 billion since the inception of the program. All shares delivered from these repurchases have been placed into treasury stock.$12.42 billion. As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we were authorized, subject to certain specifications, to repurchase additional shares of our common stock up to $1.82a total of $11.93 billion through December 2020.2023.
During the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2023, we paid $100 million and $200 million in cash dividends to our shareholders, respectively. During the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2022, we paid $100 million and $198 million in cash dividends to our shareholders, respectively.
In November 2017, we declared an increase in our quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share from $0.14 per share, to be paid with our next quarterly cash dividend on December 15, 2017, to all shareholders of record on November 24, 2017.
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Convertible Preferred Stock
As of October 29, 2017 and January 29, 2017, there were no shares of preferred stock outstanding.
Common Stock
We are authorized to issue up to 2.00 billion shares of our common stock at $0.001 per share par value.
Note 1415 - Segment Information
Our Chief Executive Officer, who is considered to be our chief operating decision maker, or CODM, reviews financial information presented on an operating segment basis for purposes of making operating decisions and assessing financial performance.
Our operating segments are equivalent to our reportable segments.
We report our business in two primary reportable segments -Graphics segment includes GeForce GPUs for gaming and PCs, the GPU businessGeForce NOW game streaming service and the Tegra Processor business - based on a single underlying graphics architecture.
Our GPU product brands are aimed at specialized markets including GeForcerelated infrastructure, and solutions for gamers; Quadrogaming platforms; Quadro/NVIDIA RTX GPUs for designers; Tesla and DGX for AI data scientists and big data researchers; and GRIDenterprise workstation graphics; vGPU software for cloud-based visual and virtual computing; automotive platforms for infotainment systems; and Omniverse software for building 3D designs and virtual worlds.
Our Compute & Networking segment includes Data Center platforms and systems for artificial intelligence, or AI, high-performance computing, users. Our Tegra brand integrates an entire computer onto a single chip, and incorporates GPUsaccelerated computing; Mellanox networking and multi-core CPUsinterconnect solutions; automotive AI Cockpit, autonomous driving development agreements, and autonomous vehicle solutions; cryptocurrency mining processors, or CMP; Jetson for robotics and other embedded platforms; and NVIDIA AI Enterprise and other software.
Operating results by segment include costs or expenses that are directly attributable to drive supercomputing for mobile gamingeach segment, and entertainment devices, as well as autonomous robots, dronescosts or expenses that are leveraged across our unified architecture and cars.therefore allocated between our two segments.
We have a single unifying architecture for our GPU and Tegra Processors. This architecture unification leverages our visual computing expertise by charging the operating expenses of certain core engineering functions to the GPU business, while charging the Tegra Processor business for the incremental cost of the teams working directly for that business. In instances where the operating expenses of certain functions benefit both reportable segments, our CODM assigns 100% of those expenses to the reportable segment that benefits the most.
The “All Other” category presented below representsincludes the revenue and expenses that our CODM does not assign to either the GPU businessGraphics or the Tegra Processor businessCompute & Networking for purposes of making operating decisions or assessing financial performance. The revenue includes primarily patent licensing revenue and the expenses include stock-based compensation expense, unallocated cost of revenuecorporate infrastructure and operating expenses,support costs, acquisition-related costs, restructuring and other charges, contributions, legal settlementIP-related costs, and other non-recurring charges and benefits that our CODM deems to be enterprise in nature.
Our CODM does not review any information regarding total assets on a reportable segment basis. Reportable segments doDepreciation and amortization expense directly attributable to each reportable segment is included in operating results for each segment. However, the CODM does not recordevaluate depreciation and amortization expense by operating segment and, therefore, it is not separately presented. There is no intersegment revenue, and, accordingly, there is none to be reported.revenue. The accounting policies for segment reporting are the same as for NVIDIA as a whole.our consolidated financial statements. The table below presents details of our reportable segments and the “All Other” category.
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| | Graphics | | Compute & Networking | | All Other | | Consolidated |
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| | (In millions) |
| Three Months Ended July 31, 2022 | | | | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 2,797 | | | $ | 3,907 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 6,704 | |
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| Operating income (loss) | $ | 657 | | | $ | 816 | | | $ | (974) | | | $ | 499 | |
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| Three Months Ended August 1, 2021 | | | | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 3,907 | | | $ | 2,600 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 6,507 | |
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| Operating income (loss) | $ | 2,127 | | | $ | 1,034 | | | $ | (717) | | | $ | 2,444 | |
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| Six Months Ended July 31, 2022 | | | | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 7,413 | | | $ | 7,579 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 14,992 | |
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| Operating income (loss) | $ | 3,133 | | | $ | 2,422 | | | $ | (3,188) | | | $ | 2,367 | |
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| Six Months Ended August 1, 2021 | | | | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 7,358 | | | $ | 4,810 | | | $ | — | | | $ | 12,168 | |
| | | | | | | |
| Operating income (loss) | $ | 3,913 | | | $ | 1,895 | | | $ | (1,408) | | | $ | 4,400 | |
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| | GPU | | Tegra Processor | | All Other | | Consolidated |
| | (In millions) |
| Three Months Ended October 29, 2017 | | | | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 2,217 |
| | $ | 419 |
| | $ | — |
| | $ | 2,636 |
|
| Depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 32 |
| | $ | 9 |
| | $ | 9 |
| | $ | 50 |
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| Operating income (loss) | $ | 978 |
| | $ | 88 |
| | $ | (171 | ) | | $ | 895 |
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| Three Months Ended October 30, 2016 | |
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| Revenue | $ | 1,697 |
| | $ | 241 |
| | $ | 66 |
| | $ | 2,004 |
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| Depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 30 |
| | $ | 8 |
| | $ | 10 |
| | $ | 48 |
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| Operating income (loss) | $ | 678 |
| | $ | 17 |
| | $ | (56 | ) | | $ | 639 |
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| Nine Months Ended October 29, 2017 | | | | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 5,676 |
| | $ | 1,084 |
| | $ | 43 |
| | $ | 6,803 |
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| Depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 88 |
| | $ | 27 |
| | $ | 30 |
| | $ | 145 |
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| Operating income (loss) | $ | 2,342 |
| | $ | 206 |
| | $ | (411 | ) | | $ | 2,137 |
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| Nine Months Ended October 30, 2016 | | | | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 3,972 |
| | $ | 567 |
| | $ | 198 |
| | $ | 4,737 |
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| Depreciation and amortization expense | $ | 87 |
| | $ | 22 |
| | $ | 31 |
| | $ | 140 |
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| Operating income (loss) | $ | 1,405 |
| | $ | (35 | ) | | $ | (169 | ) | | $ | 1,201 |
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| | Three Months Ended | | Nine Months Ended |
| | October 29,
2017 | | October 30,
2016 | | October 29,
2017 | | October 30,
2016 |
| | (In millions) |
| Reconciling items included in "All Other" category: | | | | | | | |
| Unallocated revenue | $ | — |
| | $ | 66 |
| | $ | 43 |
| | $ | 198 |
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| Stock-based compensation expense | (107 | ) | | (65 | ) | | (265 | ) | | (176 | ) |
| Unallocated cost of revenue and operating expenses | (61 | ) | | (53 | ) | | (176 | ) | | (156 | ) |
| Acquisition-related costs | (3 | ) | | (4 | ) | | (11 | ) | | (12 | ) |
| Restructuring and other charges | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | (3 | ) |
| Contributions | — |
| | — |
| | (2 | ) | | (4 | ) |
| Legal settlement costs | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | (16 | ) |
| Total | $ | (171 | ) | | $ | (56 | ) | | $ | (411 | ) | | $ | (169 | ) |
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| Three Months Ended | | Six Months Ended |
| July 31,
2022 | | August 1,
2021 | | July 31,
2022 | | August 1,
2021 |
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| (In millions) |
| Reconciling items included in "All Other" category: | | | | | | | |
| Stock-based compensation expense | $ | (649) | | | $ | (465) | | | $ | (1,227) | | | $ | (894) | |
| Acquisition-related and other costs | (175) | | | (158) | | | (324) | | | (325) | |
| Unallocated cost of revenue and operating expenses | (148) | | | (90) | | | (275) | | | (180) | |
| Contributions | (2) | | | — | | | (2) | | | — | |
| IP-related and legal settlement costs | — | | | (4) | | | (7) | | | (9) | |
| Acquisition termination cost | — | | | — | | | (1,353) | | | — | |
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| Total | $ | (974) | | | $ | (717) | | | $ | (3,188) | | | $ | (1,408) | |
Revenue by geographic region is allocated to individual countries based on the location to which the products are initially billed even if our customers’ revenue is attributable to end customers that are located in a different location. The following table summarizes information pertaining to our revenue from customers based on the invoicing address by geographic regions:
| | | | | | | | | | | | Three Months Ended | | Six Months Ended |
| | Three Months Ended | | Nine Months Ended | | July 31, | | August 1, | | July 31, | | August 1, |
| | October 29, | | October 30, | | October 29, | | October 30, | | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
| | 2017 | | 2016 | | 2017 | | 2016 | | | | | | | | |
| | (In millions) | | (In millions) |
| Revenue: | | | | | | | | Revenue: | | | | |
| United States | | United States | $ | 1,988 | | | $ | 996 | | | $ | 3,921 | | | $ | 1,764 | |
| China (including Hong Kong) | | China (including Hong Kong) | 1,602 | | | 1,720 | | | 3,683 | | | 3,111 | |
| Taiwan | $ | 864 |
| | $ | 747 |
| | $ | 2,140 |
| | $ | 1,696 |
| Taiwan | 1,204 | | | 1,961 | | | 3,981 | | | 3,745 | |
| Other Asia Pacific | 612 |
| | 309 |
| | 1,409 |
| | 660 |
| |
| China | 515 |
| | 341 |
| | 1,325 |
| | 845 |
| |
| United States | 263 |
| | 282 |
| | 894 |
| | 682 |
| |
| Other Americas | 187 |
| | 154 |
| | 480 |
| | 360 |
| |
| Europe | 195 |
| | 171 |
| | 555 |
| | 494 |
| |
| | Other countries | | Other countries | 1,910 | | | 1,830 | | | 3,407 | | | 3,548 | |
| Total revenue | $ | 2,636 |
| | $ | 2,004 |
| | $ | 6,803 |
| | $ | 4,737 |
| Total revenue | $ | 6,704 | | | $ | 6,507 | | | $ | 14,992 | | | $ | 12,168 | |
The following table summarizes information pertaining to our revenue by each of the specialized markets we serve:
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| | Three Months Ended | | Six Months Ended |
| July 31, | | August 1, | | July 31, | | August 1, |
| | 2022 | | 2021 | | 2022 | | 2021 |
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| Revenue: | | | | | | | |
| Gaming | $ | 2,042 | | | $ | 3,061 | | | $ | 5,662 | | | $ | 5,821 | |
| Data Center | 3,806 | | | 2,366 | | | 7,556 | | | 4,414 | |
| Professional Visualization | 496 | | | 519 | | | 1,118 | | | 891 | |
| Automotive | 220 | | | 152 | | | 358 | | | 306 | |
| OEM and Other | 140 | | | 409 | | | 298 | | | 736 | |
| Total revenue | $ | 6,704 | | | $ | 6,507 | | | $ | 14,992 | | | $ | 12,168 | |
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| | Three Months Ended | | Nine Months Ended |
| | October 29, | | October 30, | | October 29, | | October 30, |
| | 2017 | | 2016 | | 2017 | | 2016 |
| | (In millions) |
| Revenue: | | | | | | | |
| Gaming | $ | 1,561 |
| | $ | 1,244 |
| | $ | 3,774 |
| | $ | 2,712 |
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| Professional Visualization | 239 |
| | 207 |
| | 679 |
| | 610 |
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| Datacenter | 501 |
| | 240 |
| | 1,326 |
| | 534 |
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| Automotive | 144 |
| | 127 |
| | 426 |
| | 359 |
|
| OEM & IP | 191 |
| | 186 |
| | 598 |
| | 522 |
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| Total revenue | $ | 2,636 |
| | $ | 2,004 |
| | $ | 6,803 |
| | $ | 4,737 |
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Accounts receivable from significant customers, those representingNo customer represented 10% or more of total revenue for the second quarter and first half of fiscal years 2023 or 2022.
Two customers each represented 10% or more of accounts receivable for the respective periods, is summarized as follows:
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| | | 2017 | | 2017 |
| Accounts Receivable: | | | | |
| Customer A | | 17 | % | | 19 | % |
Note 15 - Restructuring and Other Charges
In fiscal year 2016, we began the wind-downa total of 21% of our Icera operations. No restructuring charges were recorded during the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2018.
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The following table provides a summary of the restructuring activities and related liabilities recorded in accrued liabilities on our Condensed Consolidated Balance Sheetsaccounts receivable balance as of October 29, 2017 and January 29, 2017:
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| | October 29, | | January 29, |
| | 2017 | | 2017 |
| | (In millions) |
| Balance at beginning of period | $ | 13 |
| | $ | 23 |
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| Restructuring and other charges | — |
| | 3 |
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| Cash payments | (5 | ) | | (13 | ) |
| Balance at end of period | $ | 8 |
| | $ | 13 |
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The majorityJuly 31, 2022. Two customers each represented 10% or more of the remaining balanceaccounts receivable for a total of $8 million22% as of October 29, 2017 is expected to be paid during the next twelve months.January 30, 2022.
ITEM 2. MANAGEMENT’S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS OF FINANCIAL CONDITION AND RESULTS OF OPERATIONS
Forward-Looking Statements
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All references to “NVIDIA,” “we,” “us,” “our” or the “Company” mean NVIDIA Corporation and its subsidiaries, except where it is made clear that the term means only the parent company.
subsidiaries.
NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, GeForce, Quadro, Tegra, Tesla, Jetson,GeForce NOW, GeForce RTX, Mellanox, NVIDIA AI Enterprise, NVIDIA DGX, NVIDIA DRIVE, NVIDIA GameWorks,DRIVE Orin, NVIDIA GRID,Grace, NVIDIA Holodeck,HGX, NVIDIA VRWorks, OptiX, PascalJetson, NVIDIA NeMO, NVIDIA Omniverse, NVIDIA QODA, NVIDIA RTX, NVIDIA Studio and TensorRTQuadro, are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation in the United States andand/or other countries. MAXQ® is the registered trademark of Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated.
Features, pricing, availability, and specifications are subject to change without notice.
The following discussion and analysis of our financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with “Item 6. Selected Financial Data”the risk factors set forth in Item 1A. “Risk Factors” of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 201730, 2022 and “ItemPart II, Item 1A. Risk“Risk Factors” of this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements and related Notes thereto, as well as other cautionary statements and risks described elsewhere in this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and our other filings with the SEC, before deciding to purchase or sell shares of our common stock.
Overview
Our Company and Our Businesses
Starting with aNVIDIA pioneered accelerated computing to help solve the most challenging computational problems. Since our original focus on PC graphics, NVIDIA inventedwe have expanded to several other large and important computationally intensive fields. Fueled by the GPU to solve somesustained demand for exceptional 3D graphics and the scale of the most complex problems in computer science. We have extended our emphasis in recent years to the revolutionary field of AI.gaming market, NVIDIA delivers value tohas leveraged its customers through PC, mobile and cloud architectures. Vertical integration enables us to bring together hardware, system software, programmable algorithms, libraries, systems and servicesGPU architecture to create unique valueplatforms for the markets we serve. We specialize in markets in which GPU-based visualscientific computing, AI, data science, autonomous vehicles, robotics, and accelerated computing platforms can provide enhanced throughput for applications.
augmented and virtual reality.
Our two reportableoperating segments - GPUare "Graphics" and Tegra Processor - are based on a single underlying graphics architecture. From our proprietary processors, we have created specialized platforms that target"Compute & Networking," as described in Note 15 of the four large markets where our expertise is critical: Gaming, Professional Visualization, Datacenter, and Automotive.
Our GPU product brands are aimed at specialized markets including GeForce for gamers; Quadro for designers; Tesla and DGX for AI data scientists and big data researchers; and GRID for cloud-based visual computing users. Our Tegra brand integrates an entire computer onto a single chip, and incorporates GPUs and multi-core CPUsNotes to drive supercomputing for mobile gaming and entertainment devices, as well as autonomous robots, drones and cars.
Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements.
Headquartered in Santa Clara, California, NVIDIA was incorporated in California in April 1993 and reincorporated in Delaware in April 1998.
Recent Developments, Future Objectives and Challenges
Termination of the Arm Share Purchase Agreement
Third QuarterOn February 8, 2022, NVIDIA and SoftBank announced the termination of Fiscal Year 2018 Summary
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| | October 29, 2017 | | July 30, 2017 | | October 30, 2016 | | Q/Q | | Y/Y |
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| Revenue | $ | 2,636 |
| | $ | 2,230 |
| | $ | 2,004 |
| | 18 | % | | 32 | % |
| Gross margin | 59.5 | % | | 58.4 | % | | 59.0 | % | | 110 bps |
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| Operating expenses | $ | 674 |
| | $ | 614 |
| | $ | 544 |
| | 10 | % | | 24 | % |
| Income from operations | $ | 895 |
| | $ | 688 |
| | $ | 639 |
| | 30 | % | | 40 | % |
| Net income | $ | 838 |
| | $ | 583 |
| | $ | 542 |
| | 44 | % | | 55 | % |
| Net income per diluted share | $ | 1.33 |
| | $ | 0.92 |
| | $ | 0.83 |
| | 45 | % | | 60 | % |
Revenue for the third quarterShare Purchase Agreement whereby NVIDIA would have acquired Arm from SoftBank. The parties agreed to terminate because of fiscal year 2018 increased 32% year over year and 18% sequentially. Growth was driven by GPUs for gaming, datacenter, and professional visualization, as well as Tegra processors.
GPU business revenue was $2.22significant regulatory challenges preventing the completion of the transaction. We recorded an acquisition termination cost of $1.35 billion up 31% from a year earlier and up 17% sequentially, with strength across all platforms, including gaming, datacenter, and professional visualization. GeForce GPU gaming revenue of $1.56 billion was led by continued strong adoption of Pascal-based GeForce GTX gaming platforms. Datacenter revenue (including Tesla, NVIDIA GRID and DGX) was $501 million, up 109% year on year and up 20% sequentially, reflecting shipments of our Volta GPU architecture. Datacenter growth was fueled by strong demand by hyperscale and cloud customers for deep learning training and accelerated GPU computing, as well as demand for HPC, DGX AI supercomputing, and GRID virtualization platforms. Professional visualization revenue grew 15% year over year and 2% sequentially to $239 million, led by high-end mobile platforms.
Tegra processor business revenue was $419 million, up 74% from a year ago and up 26% sequentially. Tegra processor business revenue includes system-on-a-chip (SOCs) modules for the Nintendo Switch gaming console and development services. Also included was automotive revenue of $144 million, which was up 13% from a year earlier and up 1% sequentially, incorporating infotainment modules, production DRIVE PX platforms, and development agreements for self-driving cars.
Revenue from our patent license agreement with Intel concluded in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018.2023 reflecting the write-off of the prepayment provided at signing in September 2020.
Demand and Supply
Because we do not manufacture the semiconductors used for our products, we are dependent on third parties to manufacture and assemble our products. Our manufacturing lead times are very long, which requires us to make estimates of customers’ future demand. At the same time, we do not have a guaranteed supply of wafers, components and capacity, and our supply deliveries and production may be non-linear within a quarter or year, which has previously caused changes to expected revenue and cash flows, and which may reoccur in the future. If our estimates of customer demand are ultimately inaccurate, as we have experienced from time to time, these conditions could lead to a significant mismatch between supply and demand. This mismatch has resulted in product shortages and excess inventory, has varied across our market platforms, and significantly harmed our financial results.
We build finished products and maintain inventory in advance of anticipated demand. In periods of shortages impacting the semiconductor industry and/or limited supply or capacity in our supply chain, as we have experienced in the past, the lead time on our orders for certain supply has extended to more than twelve months, compared to a historical lead time of approximately six months. Extended lead times may continue if we experience other supply constraints caused by natural disasters or other events. As a result, we have paid premiums and provided deposits to secure future supply and capacity, which have increased our product costs, and may need to continue to do so in the future. Our supply, which includes inventory on hand, purchase obligations and prepaid supply agreements, has grown significantly due to current supply chain conditions and complexity of our products. Purchase obligations and prepaid supply agreements represent approximately three quarters of our total supply.
Demand for our products is based on many factors, including our product introductions and transitions, time to market, competitor product releases and announcements, competing technologies, and changes in macroeconomic conditions, including rising inflation. Each of these factors has previously impacted, and can in the future impact, the timing and volume of our revenue. Our demand predictions may not be correct, as we have experienced from time to time. Product transitions are complex and frequently negatively impact our revenue as we manage shipments of legacy prior architecture products and channel partners prepare and adjust to support new products. We are entering a timeframe when we will transition architectures for both our Gaming and Data Center products, which may impair our ability to predict demand and impact our supply mix. We may experience, and have in the past experienced, reduced demand for current generation architectures when customers anticipate transitions. If we are unable to execute our architectural transitions as planned for any reason, our financial results may be negatively impacted. Our ability to sell certain products has in the past been and can in the future be impeded if components from third parties that are necessary for the finished product are not available. Additionally, we sell most of our products through channel partners, who sell to retailers, distributors, and/or end customers. As a result, the decisions made by our channel partners, retailers and distributors in response to changing market conditions and changes in end user demand for our products have impacted and could in the future continue to impact our ability to properly forecast demand, particularly as they are based on estimates provided by various downstream parties.
In recent periods, COVID-19-related disruptions and lockdowns in China have created and may continue to create supply and logistics constraints. The war in Ukraine has further strained global supply chains and may in the future result in a shortage of key materials that our suppliers, including our foundry partners, require to satisfy our needs.
Our GPUs are designed for the Gaming, Data Center, Professional Visualization and Automotive markets. The use of our GPUs for use cases other than that for which they were designed and marketed, including new and unexpected use cases, has impacted and can in the future impact demand for our products, including by leading to inconsistent spikes and drops in demand. For example, many years ago, our Gaming GPUs began to be used for digital currency mining, including blockchain-based platforms such as Ethereum. It is difficult for us to estimate with any reasonable degree of precision the past or current impact of cryptocurrency mining, or forecast the future impact of cryptocurrency mining, on demand for our products. Volatility in the cryptocurrency market, including new compute technologies, price changes in cryptocurrencies, government cryptocurrency policies and regulations, new cryptocurrency standards, and changes in the method of verifying blockchain transactions, has impacted and can in the future impact cryptocurrency mining and demand for our products and can further impact our ability to estimate demand for our products. Changes to cryptocurrency standards and processes including, but not limited to, the pending Ethereum 2.0 merge may decrease the usage of GPUs for Ethereum mining as well as create increased aftermarket resales of our GPUs, which could negatively impact retail prices for our GPUs, increase returns of our products in the distribution channel, and reduce demand for our new GPUs. We have introduced Lite Hash Rate, or LHR, GeForce GPUs with limited Ethereum mining capability and provided CMP products in an effort to address demand from gamers and direct miners to CMP. Beginning in the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, most desktop NVIDIA Ampere architecture GeForce GPU shipments were LHR to help direct GeForce GPUs to gamers. Attempts in the aftermarket to improve the hash rate capabilities of our LHR cards have been successful and our gaming cards may become more attractive to miners, increasing demand for our
gaming GPUs and limiting our ability to supply our gaming cards to non-mining customers. We cannot predict whether our strategy of using LHR cards and CMP will achieve our desired outcome. In addition, our new products or previously sold products may be resold online or on the unauthorized “gray market,” which also makes demand forecasting difficult. Gray market products or reseller marketplaces compete with our distribution channels.
In the second quarter of fiscal year 2023, Gaming revenue experienced lower sell-in of our Gaming GPUs, reflecting reduced channel partner sales due to macroeconomic headwinds, including the negative impact of high inflation on consumer spending and weaker consumer purchasing power in markets whose currencies weakened relative to the U.S. dollar, as our sales are in U.S. dollars. Our channel partners reduced their inventory and are transitioning to a lower value mix of inventory to better align with demand as well as an architectural transition, and we implemented pricing programs with them to address challenging market conditions that we expect to persist into the third quarter of fiscal year 2018 was 59.5%, increasing2023. The sequential decline in Gaming revenue also resulted from the prior yearwar in Ukraine impacting sales in Europe and lockdowns in China due to COVID-19. The extent to which reduced cryptocurrency mining contributed to the decline in Gaming demand is difficult for us to reasonably quantify. Economic conditions in China drove lower sales to China hyperscale customers, impacting our Data Center revenue, and drove lower sales of Gaming products. We and our customers are also experiencing Data Center supply chain disruptions as our customers delay purchases pending the availability of other third party components. These recent reductions in demand and our reduced expectations of future demand have required us to record charges for excess inventory on hand and on order, and cancellation and underutilization penalties. Potential future demand reductions could require additional reserves. Mismatches between our supply and demand may occur in future quarters.
On August 26, 2022, the U.S. government, or USG, informed us that it has imposed a new license requirement, effective immediately, for any future export to China (including Hong Kong) and Russia of our A100 and forthcoming H100 integrated circuits. DGX or any other systems which incorporate A100 or H100 integrated circuits and our A100X are also covered by the new license requirement. The license requirement also includes any future NVIDIA integrated circuit achieving both peak performance and chip-to-chip I/O performance equal to or greater than thresholds that are roughly equivalent to the A100, as well as any system that includes those circuits. A license is required to export technology to support or develop covered products. The USG indicated that the new license requirement will address the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a ‘military end use’ or ‘military end user’ in China and Russia. We do not sell products to customers in Russia.
The new license requirement may impact our ability to complete our development of H100 in a timely manner or support existing customers of A100 and may require us to transition certain operations out of China, which could be costly and time consuming, and adversely affect our research and development and supply and distribution operations, as well as our revenue, during any such transition period. We are engaged with the USG and are seeking exemptions for our internal development and support activities.
We are engaging with customers in China and are seeking to satisfy their planned or future purchases of our Data Center products with products not subject to the new license requirement. To the extent that a customer requires products covered by the new license requirement, we may seek a license for the customer but have no assurance that the USG will grant any exemptions or licenses for any customer, or that the USG will act on them in a timely manner. The new requirement may have a disproportionate impact on NVIDIA and may disadvantage NVIDIA against our competitors, who are not subject to the same restrictions.
Our outlook for our third fiscal quarter provided on August 24, 2022 included approximately $400 million in potential sales to China which may be subject to the new license requirement. Our future revenue and profitability may be substantially reduced relative to this outlook, and our competitive position may be harmed, if customers do not want to purchase our alternative product offerings or if the USG does not grant licenses in a timely manner or denies licenses to significant customers. Even if the USG grants the requested licenses, the new requirement may benefit our competitors, as the licensing process will make our sales and support efforts more cumbersome, less certain, and encourage customers in China to pursue alternatives to our products, including semiconductor suppliers based in China, Europe, and Israel.
COVID-19
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, most of our employees continue to work remotely and we have paused most business travel. When our offices begin to reopen, we expect to incur incremental expenses and related in-office costs as we resume onsite services.
Consumer and enterprise behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as fluctuating demand for our Gaming, Data Center, and workstation products, has made it more difficult for us to estimate future demand and may have changed pre-pandemic behaviors. At the same time, restrictions that may be imposed or reinstated as the pandemic continues, such as recent lockdown measures due to COVID-19 containment efforts in China, have negatively impacted end customer sales for our products in China and this impact may continue if future lockdowns are imposed. These challenges in estimating demand are expected to be more pronounced or volatile in the future on both a global and regional basis and may continue in the future when the effects of the pandemic subside. Additionally, recent COVID-19-related disruptions and lockdowns in China have created and may continue to create supply chain and logistics constraints.
The timing and overall demand from customers, and the previouslimited availability of supply chain, logistical services and component supply, as a result of COVID-19, has had and may continue to have a material net negative impact on our business and financial results.
Russia
During the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, we paused direct sales to Russia. Direct sales to Russia in fiscal year 2022 were immaterial. Our revenue to partners that sell into Russia may be negatively impacted due to strong growththe war in datacenterUkraine and we estimate that in fiscal year 2022, Russia accounted for approximately 2% of total end customer sales and 4% of Gaming end customer sales. Long lived assets in Russia are immaterial.
Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2023 Summary
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| Three Months Ended | | | | |
| | July 31, 2022 | | May 1, 2022 | | August 1, 2021 | | Quarter-over-Quarter Change | | Year-over-Year Change |
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| ($ in millions, except per share data) | | | | |
| Revenue | $ | 6,704 | | | $ | 8,288 | | | $ | 6,507 | | | (19) | % | | 3 | % |
| Gross margin | 43.5 | % | | 65.5 | % | | 64.8 | % | | (22.0) pts | | (21.3) pts |
| Operating expenses | $ | 2,416 | | | $ | 3,563 | | | $ | 1,771 | | | (32) | % | | 36 | % |
| Income from operations | $ | 499 | | | $ | 1,868 | | | $ | 2,444 | | | (73) | % | | (80) | % |
| Net income | $ | 656 | | | $ | 1,618 | | | $ | 2,374 | | | (59) | % | | (72) | % |
| Net income per diluted share | $ | 0.26 | | | $ | 0.64 | | | $ | 0.94 | | | (59) | % | | (72) | % |
We specialize in markets where our computing platforms can provide tremendous acceleration for applications. These platforms incorporate processors, interconnects, software, algorithms, systems, and services to deliver unique value. Our platforms address four large markets where our expertise is critical: Gaming, Data Center, Professional Visualization, and Automotive.
Revenue for the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 was $6.70 billion, up 3% from a year ago and down 19% sequentially.
Gaming revenue was down 33% from a year ago and the mix within our GeForce gaming GPUs.
Operating expenses fordown 44% sequentially. These decreases were primarily attributable to lower sell-in of Gaming products, reflecting reduced channel partner sales due to macroeconomic headwinds. In addition to reducing sell-in, we implemented pricing programs with channel partners to address challenging market conditions that are expected to persist into the third quarter of fiscal year 2018 were $674 million,2023.
Our GPUs are capable of cryptocurrency mining, though we have limited visibility into how much this impacts our overall GPU demand. Volatility in the cryptocurrency market – such as declines in cryptocurrency prices or changes in method of verifying transactions, including proof of work or proof of stake – has in the past impacted, and can in the future impact, demand for our products and our ability to accurately estimate it. As noted last quarter, we had expected cryptocurrency mining to make a diminishing contribution to Gaming demand. We are unable to accurately quantify the extent to which reduced cryptocurrency mining contributed to the decline in Gaming demand.
Data Center revenue was up 24%61% from a year earlierago and up 10%1% sequentially. The year-on-year increase was primarily driven by hyperscale customer revenue, which nearly doubled. Sequentially, sales to North America hyperscale and cloud computing customers increased, but were more than offset by lower sales to China hyperscale customers affected by economic conditions in China. Vertical industries grew both sequentially reflecting increased headcount and related costs for our year-on-year. Key workloads driving
growth initiatives - gaming, artificial intelligence,included natural language processing, deep recommenders, autonomous vehicle fleet data processing and autonomous driving.training, and cloud graphics.
Income from operations for the third quarter of fiscal year 2018Professional Visualization revenue was $895 million, up 40%down 4% from a year earlierago and down 20% sequentially. The sequential increase in mobile revenue was more than offset by lower desktop revenue, particularly at the high end.
Automotive revenue was up 30% sequentially. Net income and net income per diluted share for the third quarter of fiscal year 2018 were $838 million and $1.33, respectively, up 55% and 60%, respectively,45% from a year earlier, fueledago and up 59% sequentially. These increases were driven by strong revenue from self-driving and AI cockpit solutions, partially offset by a decline of legacy cockpit revenue.
OEM and Other revenue was down 66% from a year ago and down 11% sequentially. The sequential decline was driven by lower notebook OEM sales, partially offset by higher Jetson sales. CMP revenue was nominal in the current and prior quarter, and $266 million a year ago.
Gross margin decreases were primarily due to a $1.34 billion charge, comprised of $1.22 billion for inventory and related reserves and $122 million for warranty reserves.
The $1.22 billion charge for inventory and related reserves is based on revised expectations of future demand, primarily relating to Data Center and Gaming. The charge consists of approximately $570 million for inventory on hand and approximately $650 million for inventory purchase obligations in excess of our current demand projections, and cancellation and underutilization penalties.
Operating expense includes a $1.35 billion acquisition termination charge related to the Arm transaction in the prior quarter. Operating expenses were influenced primarily by employee growth costs, as well as increases in salaries to support our employees during this high inflationary environment, and improved gross and operating margins.
During the first nine monthsengineering development of fiscal year 2018, we returnednew products coming to shareholders $909 million in share repurchases and $250 million in cash dividends. For fiscal year 2018, we intend to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases. For fiscal year 2019, we also intend to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases. In November 2017, we declared an increase in our quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share from $0.14 per share, to be paid with our next quarterly cash dividend on December 15, 2017, to all shareholders of record on November 24, 2017.
market.
Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities were $6.32$17.04 billion, as of October 29, 2017, compared with $5.88down from $19.65 billion at the end of the prior quarter.a year ago and down from $20.34 billion a quarter ago. The year-on-year and sequential increase was primarily related to the increase indecreases reflect share repurchases offset by operating income, as well as strong collections of outstanding accounts receivable.
GPU Business
During the third quarter of fiscal year 2018, we released the GeForce GTX 1070 Ti GPU and announced collaborations to bring NVIDIA GameWorks technology to top fall games, including PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, FINAL FANTASY XV, Shadow of War, and Destiny 2. For our datacenter platform, we held GPU Technology Conferences in Beijing, Munich, Tel Aviv, Taipei and Washington, announced that Alibaba, Baidu and Tencent will adopt NVIDIA Volta GPUs for accelerating AI, and that Oracle had added NVIDIA Tesla P100 GPU accelerators to Oracle Cloud. We also launched the NVIDIA GPU Cloud container registry to accelerate deep learning for developers, announced that Huawei, Inspur and Lenovo will use the NVIDIA Volta HGX architecture to build AI systems for datacenters, shared news that Dell EMC, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, IBM and Supermicro had unveiled servers based on NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators, and launched the NVIDIA TensorRT 3 AI inference acceleration platform. For our professional visualization platform, we opened early access to NVIDIA Holodeck, and launched the Quadro Virtual Data Center Workstation.
cash flow generation.
During the second quarter of fiscal year 2018,2023, we introduced Max-Q, a design approachreturned $3.44 billion to make gaming laptops thinner, quieter,shareholders in the form of share repurchases and faster. Forcash dividends. During the first half of fiscal year 2023, we returned $5.54 billion to shareholders in the form of share repurchases and cash dividends. We have $11.93 billion remaining under our datacentershare repurchase authorization through December 2023. We plan to continue share repurchases this fiscal year.
Market Platform Highlights
In our Data Center market platform, we announced and began shippingthat NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPU accelerators, the first GPU based on the new Volta architecture; unveiled a new lineupGrace superchips are being used to create HGX systems by some of NVIDIA DGX AI supercomputers; and disclosed that the world’s 13 most energy-efficient supercomputers onleading computer makers; unveiled the Green 500 list run on NVIDIA Tesla accelerators. ForQuantum Optimized Device Architecture; and provided updates for the NeMo Megatron large language model framework.
In our professional visualizationGaming market platform, we introduced Project Holodeck, a photorealistic, collaborative VR environment; launched external GPU support for creative professionals; and releasedincreased the NVIDIA Optix 5.0number of GeForce RTX and NVIDIA VRWorks 360 Video software development kits.Studio laptops to 180+ and expanded the GeForce NOW library with 80 additional games bringing the total to over 1,350.
In our Professional Visualization market platform, we expanded our partnership with Siemens to enable the industrial metaverse and increase use of AI-driven digital twin technology and announced Omniverse Avatar Cloud Engine.
During the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, we announced GeForce GTX 1080 Ti and TITAN Xp forIn our gaming platform. For our datacenterAutomotive market platform, we announced with Microsoft that it is bringing NVIDIA Tesla P100rollout plans of new model vehicles using the DRIVE Orin compute platform by partners NIO, Li Auto, JIDU, and P40 GPUs to the Azure cloud; announced that NVIDIA Tesla accelerators designed for datacenter AI capabilities were added to Google Cloud, Tencent Cloud, IBM Cloud,Human Horizons, as well as Pony.ai’s use of DRIVE Orin across its line of self-driving trucks and Baidu Cloud; announced that the Tokyo Institute of Technology will use NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform in their AI supercomputer, TSUBAME3.0; announced that Fujitsu is using 24 NVIDIA DGX-1 AI systems to build a new AI supercomputer for the RIKEN research center in Japan; announced together with Facebook the Caffe2 deep learning framework and Big Basin servers with Tesla P100 GPUs; and announced plans to train 100,000 developers this year through the NVIDIA Deep Learning Institute.
Tegra Processor Business
During the third quarter of fiscal year 2018, we announced NVIDIA DRIVE PX Pegasus, an auto-grade AI computer designed to enable driverless robotaxis without steering wheels, pedals or mirrors, we added Alibaba and Huawei as partners for the NVIDIA Metropolis AI Smart Cities platform, and we announced that we are collaborating with China’s JD.com’s X lab to use NVIDIA Jetson to create autonomous machines that bring AI to logistics and delivery.
During the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, we announced that Toyota selected NVIDIA DRIVE PX for its next-generation autonomous cars; Volvo and Autoliv selected DRIVE PX for self-driving cars targeted to hit the market by 2021; ZF and HELLA, two leading automotive suppliers, announced a system based on DRIVE PX to deliver the highest NCAP safety ratings for cars; and Baidu announced that its Project Apollo open-source self-driving platform for the China market will use DRIVE PX. We also introduced the NVIDIA Isaac robot simulator for training intelligent machines in simulated real-world conditions before deployment; and announced the NVIDIA Metropolis platform, used by more than 50 partners to make cities safer and smarter by applying deep learning to surveillance video streams.
During the first quarter of fiscal year 2018, we announced with Bosch, one of the world’s largest auto suppliers, plans to create a new Bosch-branded AI self-driving car computer. We also announced a collaboration with PACCAR, one of the world's largest truck makers with brands including Peterbilt, Kenworth and DAF, to develop solutions for autonomous trucks. We also announced NVIDIA Jetson TX2, a high-performance, low-power computer platform for delivering AI at the edge, with deep learning and computer vision capabilities for robots, drones and smart cameras.
robotaxis.
Financial Information by Business Segment and Geographic Data
Please referRefer to Note 1415 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for disclosure regarding segment information.
Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates Refer to Part II, Item 7, "Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates" of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 30, 2022. There have been no material changes to our Critical Accounting Policies and Estimates.
Results of Operations
The following table sets forth, for the periods indicated, certain items in our Condensed Consolidated Statements of Income expressed as a percentage of revenue.
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2017 | | October 30,
2016 | | October 29,
2017 | | October 30,
2016 |
| Revenue | 100.0 | % | | 100.0 | % | | 100.0 | % | | 100.0 | % |
| Cost of revenue | 40.5 |
| | 41.0 |
| | 40.9 |
| | 41.7 |
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| Gross profit | 59.5 |
| | 59.0 |
| | 59.1 |
| | 58.3 |
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| Operating expenses | | | | | | | |
| Research and development | 17.5 |
| | 18.6 |
| | 19.0 |
| | 22.6 |
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| Sales, general and administrative | 8.0 |
| | 8.5 |
| | 8.7 |
| | 10.3 |
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| Restructuring and other charges | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | 0.1 |
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| Total operating expenses | 25.5 |
| | 27.1 |
| | 27.7 |
| | 33.0 |
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| Income from operations | 34.0 |
| | 31.9 |
| | 31.4 |
| | 25.3 |
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| Interest income | 0.6 |
| | 0.7 |
| | 0.7 |
| | 0.8 |
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| Interest expense | (0.6 | ) | | (0.8 | ) | | (0.7 | ) | | (0.8 | ) |
| Other, net | — |
| | (0.8 | ) | | (0.3 | ) | | (0.4 | ) |
| Total other income (expense) | — |
| | (0.9 | ) | | (0.3 | ) | | (0.4 | ) |
| Income before income tax expense | 34.0 |
| | 31.0 |
| | 31.1 |
| | 24.9 |
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| Income tax expense | 2.2 |
| | 3.9 |
| | 2.8 |
| | 3.5 |
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| Net income | 31.8 | % | | 27.1 | % | | 28.3 | % | | 21.4 | % |
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| | Three Months Ended | | Six Months Ended |
| | July 31,
2022 | | August 1,
2021 | | July 31,
2022 | | August 1,
2021 |
| Revenue | 100.0 | % | | 100.0 | % | | 100.0 | % | | 100.0 | % |
| Cost of revenue | 56.5 | | | 35.2 | | | 44.3 | | | 35.5 | |
| Gross profit | 43.5 | | | 64.8 | | | 55.7 | | | 64.5 | |
| Operating expenses | | | | | | | |
| Research and development | 27.2 | | | 19.1 | | | 23.0 | | | 19.7 | |
| Sales, general and administrative | 8.8 | | | 8.1 | | | 7.9 | | | 8.6 | |
| Acquisition termination cost | — | | | — | | | 9.0 | | | — | |
| Total operating expenses | 36.0 | | | 27.2 | | | 39.9 | | | 28.3 | |
| Income from operations | 7.5 | | | 37.6 | | | 15.8 | | | 36.2 | |
| Interest income | 0.7 | | | 0.1 | | | 0.4 | | | 0.1 | |
| Interest expense | (1.0) | | | (0.9) | | | (0.9) | | | (0.9) | |
| Other, net | (0.1) | | | 0.1 | | | (0.1) | | | 1.1 | |
| Other income (expense), net | (0.4) | | | (0.7) | | | (0.6) | | | 0.3 | |
| Income before income tax | 7.1 | | | 36.9 | | | 15.2 | | | 36.5 | |
| Income tax expense (benefit) | (2.7) | | | 0.3 | | | — | | | 1.3 | |
| Net income | 9.8 | % | | 36.6 | % | | 15.2 | % | | 35.2 | % |
Revenue
Revenue by Reportable Segments
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| | ($ in millions) |
| Graphics | $ | 2,797 | | | $ | 3,907 | | | $ | (1,110) | | | (28) | % | | $ | 7,413 | | | $ | 7,358 | | | $ | 55 | | | 1 | % |
| Compute & Networking | 3,907 | | | 2,600 | | | 1,307 | | | 50 | % | | 7,579 | | | 4,810 | | | 2,769 | | | 58 | % |
| Total | $ | 6,704 | | | $ | 6,507 | | | $ | 197 | | | 3 | % | | $ | 14,992 | | | $ | 12,168 | | | $ | 2,824 | | | 23 | % |
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2017 | | October 30,
2016 | | $
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2017 | | October 30,
2016 | | $
Change | | %
Change |
| | ($ in millions) |
| GPU | $ | 2,217 |
| | $ | 1,697 |
| | $ | 520 |
| | 31 | % | | $ | 5,676 |
| | $ | 3,972 |
| | $ | 1,704 |
| | 43 | % |
| Tegra Processor | 419 |
| | 241 |
| | 178 |
| | 74 | % | | 1,084 |
| | 567 |
| | 517 |
| | 91 | % |
| All Other | — |
| | 66 |
| | (66 | ) | | (100 | )% | | 43 |
| | 198 |
| | (155 | ) | | (78 | )% |
| Total | $ | 2,636 |
| | $ | 2,004 |
| | $ | 632 |
| | 32 | % | | $ | 6,803 |
| | $ | 4,737 |
| | $ | 2,066 |
| | 44 | % |
GPU Business. GPU business revenue increased by 31% forGraphics - The year over year decrease was primarily attributable to lower sell-in of desktop Gaming and Professional Visualization products in the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 reflecting reduced channel partner sales due to macroeconomic headwinds. In addition to reducing sell-in, we implemented pricing programs in Gaming with channel partners to address challenging market conditions that are expected to persist into the third quarter of fiscal year 2018 compared to2023. Revenue on a year-to-date basis was essentially flat as the thirddeclines in sales of GeForce GPUs for desktops and SOCs for game consoles were offset by increases in sales of GeForce GPUs for laptops and Professional Visualization products.
Compute & Networking - The year-on-year increases were primarily driven by hyperscale customer revenue, which nearly doubled. Vertical industries grew year-on-year. Key workloads driving growth included natural language processing, deep recommenders, autonomous vehicle fleet data processing and training, and cloud graphics. CMP contributed an insignificant amount in the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2017. This increase was due primarily2023 compared to increased revenue from sales of GeForce GPU products for gaming, which increased over 10%, reflecting continued strong demand for our Pascal-based GPU products. Datacenter revenue, including Tesla, GRID$266 million in second quarter and DGX, increased 109%, reflecting strong demand from hyperscale and cloud customers for deep learning training and accelerated GPU computing, as well as demand for high performance computing, DGX AI supercomputing and GRID virtualization platforms. Revenue from Quadro GPUs for professional visualization increased 15% due primarily to higher sales in both high-end desktop and overall mobile workstation products. Our PC OEM revenue increased by over 90% due primarily to strong demand for GPU products targeted for use in cryptocurrency mining.
GPU business revenue increased by 43%$421 million in the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2018 compared to the first nine months of fiscal year 2017. This increase was due primarily to increased revenue from sales of GeForce GPU products for gaming, which increased over 20%, reflecting continued strong demand for our Pascal-based GPU products. Datacenter revenue, including Tesla, GRID and DGX, increased over 140%, reflecting strong demand from hyperscale and cloud customers for deep learning training and accelerated GPU computing, as well as demand for high performance computing, DGX AI supercomputing and GRID virtualization platforms. Revenue from Quadro GPUs for professional visualization increased over 10% due primarily to higher sales in both desktop and mobile workstation products. Revenue from GeForce GPU products for mainstream PC OEMs increased by over 90% due primarily to strong demand for GPU products targeted for use in cryptocurrency mining.2022.
Tegra Processor Business. Tegra Processor business revenue increased by 74% for the third quarter of fiscal year 2018 compared to the third quarter of fiscal year 2017. This was driven by an increase of over 240% in revenue from gaming development platforms and services, and an increase of 13% in automotive revenue, primarily from infotainment modules, DRIVE PX platforms and development agreements for self-driving cars.
Tegra Processor business revenue increased by 91% in the first nine months of fiscal year 2018 compared to the first nine months of fiscal year 2017. This was driven by an increase of over 420% in revenue from gaming development platforms and services, and an increase of over 15% in automotive revenue, primarily from infotainment modules, DRIVE PX platforms and development agreements for self-driving cars.
All Other. Our patent license agreement with Intel concluded in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018. For the first nine months of fiscal year 2018, we recognized related revenue of $43 million, down from $198 million for the first nine months of fiscal year 2017.
Concentration of Revenue
Revenue from sales to customers outside of the United States and Other Americas accounted for 83%70% and 80%74% of total revenue for the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2018, respectively. Revenue from sales to customers outside of the United States2023, respectively, and Other Americas accounted for 78%85% and 86% of total revenue for both the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017.2022, respectively. Revenue by geographic region is allocated to individual countries based on the location to which the products are initially billed even if the revenue is attributable to end customers in a different location.
No customer represented 10% or more of total revenue for the second quarter and first half of fiscal years 2023 or 2022.
Data Center revenue included $287 million for orders originally scheduled for delivery primarily in the third quarter that were converted to second-quarter delivery with extended payment terms, while a number of second-quarter orders will be fulfilled in the third quarter given supply chain disruptions. These second quarter of fiscal year 2023 revenue transactions were recognized under our pre-established revenue recognition policy that includes extended payment terms conditions.
Gross Margin
Our overall gross margin increaseddecreased to 59.5%43.5% and 55.7% for the thirdsecond quarter and first half of fiscal year 2023, respectively, from 64.8% and 64.5% for the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2022, respectively. These decreases were primarily due to a $1.34 billion charge in the second quarter of fiscal year 2018 from 59.0%2023, comprised of $1.22 billion for the third quarterinventory and related reserves, primarily relating to Data Center and Gaming, and $122 million for warranty reserves. The inventory and related reserves consist of fiscal year 2017,approximately $570 million for inventory on hand and increased to 59.1%approximately $650 million for the first nine monthsinventory purchase obligations in excess of fiscal year 2018 from 58.3% for the first nine months of fiscal year 2017. These increases wereour current demand projections, and cancellation and underutilization penalties. The warranty reserve is primarily due to the growtha defect that was identified in GPU business revenue from our Datacenter platforms and increased sales of GeForce GTX products for gaming. These increases were partially offset by the absence of licensing revenue from Intel.a third-party component embedded in certain Data Center products.
Inventory provision costsprovisions totaled $14 million$1.22 billion and $13$73 million for the thirdsecond quarter of fiscal years 20182023 and 2017, respectively, unfavorably impacting our gross margin by 0.5% and 0.7%,2022, respectively. Sales of inventory that was previously written-off or written-downdown totaled $6$23 million and $19$20 million for the thirdsecond quarter of fiscal years 20182023 and 2017, respectively, favorably impacting our gross margin by 0.2% and 0.9%,2022, respectively. As a result, the overall net effect on our gross margin from charges for inventory provision costswas an unfavorable impact of 17.8% and sales of items previously written-off or written-down was nominal for0.8% in the thirdsecond quarter of fiscal years 20182023 and 2017.
2022, respectively.
Inventory provision costsprovisions totaled $30 million$1.31 billion and $40$131 million for the first nine monthshalf of fiscal years 20182023 and 2017, respectively, unfavorably impacting our gross margin by 0.4% and 0.9%,2022, respectively. Sales of inventory that was previously written-off or written-downdown totaled $29$38 million and $39$41 million for the first nine monthshalf of fiscal years 20182023 and 2017, respectively, favorably impacting our gross margin by 0.4% and 0.8%,2022, respectively. As a result, the overall net effect on our gross margin from charges for inventory provision costswas an unfavorable impact of 8.5% and sales of items previously written-off or written-down was nominal for0.7% in the first nine monthshalf of fiscal years 20182023 and 2017.2022, respectively.
A discussion of our gross margin results for each of our reportable segments is as follows:
GPU Business.Graphics - The gross margin of our GPU business increasedGraphics segment decreased during the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 20182023 compared to the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017. GPU margins increased2022, primarily due to strong sales of our GeForce GTX gaming productsinventory and revenue growth in Datacenter driven by strong demand for Tesla products by hyperscale and cloud customers for deep learning training and accelerated GPU computing, DGX AI supercomputing and GRID virtualization platforms.related reserves. In addition, we implemented pricing programs with Gaming channel partners to address challenging market conditions, which reduced gross margin.
Tegra Processor Business.Compute & Networking - The gross margin of our Tegra Processor business increasedCompute & Networking segment decreased during the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 20182023 compared to the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017. The increase in Tegra margins was2022, primarily due to revenue growth in gaming development platformsinventory related and automotive.warranty reserves.
Operating Expenses
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| | Three Months Ended | | Nine Months Ended |
| | October 29,
2017 | | October 30,
2016 | | $ Change | | % Change | | October 29,
2017 | | October 30,
2016 | | $
Change | | %
Change |
| | ($ in millions) |
| Research and development expenses | $ | 462 |
| | $ | 373 |
| | $ | 89 |
| | 24 | % | | $ | 1,290 |
| | $ | 1,069 |
| | $ | 221 |
| | 21 | % |
| Sales, general and administrative expenses | 212 |
| | 171 |
| | 41 |
| | 24 | % | | 594 |
| | 487 |
| | 107 |
| | 22 | % |
| Restructuring and other charges | — |
| | — |
| | — |
| | — | % | | — |
| | 3 |
| | (3 | ) | | (100 | )% |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 674 |
| | $ | 544 |
| | $ | 130 |
| | 24 | % | | $ | 1,884 |
| | $ | 1,559 |
| | $ | 325 |
| | 21 | % |
| Research and development expenses as a percentage of net revenue | 18 | % | | 19 | % | | |
| | |
| | 19 | % | | 23 | % | | | | |
| Sales, general and administrative expenses as a percentage of net revenue | 8 | % | | 9 | % | | |
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| | 9 | % | | 10 | % | | | | |
| Restructuring and other charges as a percentage of net revenue | — | % | | — | % | | | | | | — | % | | — | % | | | | |
Research and Development
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2022 | | August 1,
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| | ($ in millions) |
| Research and development expenses | $ | 1,824 | | | $ | 1,245 | | | $ | 579 | | | 47 | % | | $ | 3,443 | | | $ | 2,398 | | | $ | 1,045 | | | 44 | % |
| % of net revenue | 27 | % | | 19 | % | | | | | | 23 | % | | 20 | % | | | | |
| Sales, general and administrative expenses | 592 | | | 526 | | | 66 | | | 13 | % | | 1,183 | | | 1,046 | | | 137 | | | 13 | % |
| % of net revenue | 9 | % | | 8 | % | | | | | | 8 | % | | 9 | % | | | | |
| Acquisition termination cost | — | | | — | | | — | | | — | % | | 1,353 | | | — | | | 1,353 | | | (100) | % |
| % of net revenue | — | % | | — | % | | | | | | 9 | % | | — | % | | | | |
| Total operating expenses | $ | 2,416 | | | $ | 1,771 | | | $ | 645 | | | 36 | % | | $ | 5,979 | | | $ | 3,444 | | | $ | 2,535 | | | 74 | % |
Research and development expenses increasedincreases were primarily driven by 24% and 21% during the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2018, respectively, compared to the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2017, driven primarily bycompensation-related costs, including for employee additions andgrowth as well as increases in employeesalaries to support our employees during this high inflationary environment and stock-based compensation, and other relatedengineering development costs including stock-based compensation expense.
Sales, General and Administrative
of new products coming to market.
Sales, general and administrative expenses increasedincreases were primarily driven by 24%compensation-related costs, including for employee growth as well as increases in salaries to support our employees during this high inflationary environment and stock-based compensation, and infrastructure costs partially offset by lower legal fees.
We recorded an acquisition termination cost related to the thirdArm transaction of $1.35 billion in the first quarter of fiscal year 2018 compared to2023 reflecting the third quarter of fiscal year 2017, driven primarily by employee additions and increases in employee compensation and other related costs, including stock-based compensation expense.
Sales, general and administrative expenses increased by 22% during the first nine months of fiscal year 2018 compared to the first nine months of fiscal year 2017, driven primarily by employee additions and increases in employee compensation and other related costs, including stock-based compensation expense. Offsetting these increases was a decrease in outside professional fees of $11 million resulting from the resolution of our intellectual property disputes with Samsung and Qualcomm.
Restructuring and Other Charges
In the second quarter of fiscal year 2016, we began the wind-down of our Icera operations. No restructuring charges were recorded during the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2018. Please refer to Note 15write-off of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion.prepayment provided at signing in September 2020.
Total Other Income (Expense), Net
Interest Income and Interest Expense
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| | ($ in millions) |
| Interest income | $ | 46 | | | $ | 6 | | | $ | 40 | | | 667 | % | | $ | 64 | | | $ | 13 | | | $ | 51 | | | 392 | % |
| Interest expense | (65) | | | (60) | | | (5) | | | 8 | % | | (132) | | | (113) | | | (19) | | | 17 | % |
| Other, net | (5) | | | 4 | | | (9) | | | (225) | % | | (19) | | | 138 | | | (157) | | | (114) | % |
| Total | $ | (24) | | | $ | (50) | | | $ | 26 | | | (52) | % | | $ | (87) | | | $ | 38 | | | $ | (125) | | | (329) | % |
Interest income consists of interest earned on cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities. Interest income was $17 million and $14 million during the third quarter of fiscal years 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $48 million and $37 million during the first nine months of fiscal years 2018 and 2017, respectively. The increase in interest income was primarily due to higher average cash balances invested in interest bearing securities, as well as higher purchased yields.
rates earned on our investments.
Interest expense is primarily comprised of coupon interest and debt discount amortization related to our notes. The increase in expense reflects interest on the 2.20% Notes Due 2021 and 3.20% Notes Due 2026$5.00 billion note issued in September 2016, and the Convertible Notes issued in December 2013. Interest expense was $15 million and $16 million during the third quarter of fiscal years 2018 and 2017, respectively, and $46 million and $39 million during the first nine months of fiscal years 2018 and 2017, respectively.
Other, Net
June 2021.
Other, net, consists primarily of realized or unrealized gains and losses from the sale of marketable securities, sales or impairments of investments in non-affiliated companies, losses on early debt conversions of the Convertible Notes,entities and the impact of changes in foreign currency rates. Other,Changes in other, net, was not significant duringcompared to the thirdsecond quarter and first half of fiscal year 2018. Other, net, was an expense of $22 million during the first nine months of fiscal year 2018, consisting2022 were primarily of $19 million of losses recognizeddriven by mark-to-market impact from early conversionspublicly traded equity investments and changes in value from our non-affiliated private investments. Refer to Note 8 of the Convertible Notes. Other, net, was an expense of $16 million and $19 million during the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2017, consisting primarily of $15 million of losses recognized from early conversions of the Convertible Notes during the third quarter of fiscal year 2017.to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information regarding our investments in non-affiliated entities.
Income Taxes
We recognized an income tax benefit of $181 million and an income tax expense of $58 million and $189$6 million for the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2018,2023, respectively, and $79an income tax expense of $20 million and $168$153 million for the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017,2022, respectively. Income tax expense as a percentage of income before income tax was 6.5% and 8.9%a benefit of 38.0% for the thirdsecond quarter of fiscal year 2023, and an expense of 0.3% for the first half of fiscal year 2023, and an expense of 0.9% and 3.4% for the second quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2018, respectively, and 12.8% and 14.2% for the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2017,2022, respectively.
The decrease in our effective tax rate infor the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 20182023 as compared to the same periods of fiscal year 2022 was primarily due to the increased tax benefit of stock-based compensation, the foreign-derived intangible income deduction, and the U.S. federal research tax credit, relative to a reduction in expected profitability. This is partially offset by the impact of an increase in the prior fiscal year primarily reflects the recognition of greater tax benefits related to stock-based compensation and a proportional decrease in the amountproportion of earnings subject to United States tax.U.S. tax in fiscal year 2023 and the one-time discrete benefit from re-valuing certain deferred tax assets in connection with the Domestication in fiscal year 2022.
Please refer to Note 4 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further information.
Liquidity and Capital Resources
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| | July 31, 2022 | | January 30, 2022 |
| | | |
| | (In millions) |
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 3,013 | | | $ | 1,990 | |
| Marketable securities | 14,024 | | | 19,218 | |
| Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities | $ | 17,037 | | | $ | 21,208 | |
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| | October 29, 2017 | | January 29, 2017 |
| | (In millions) |
| Cash and cash equivalents | $ | 2,802 |
| | $ | 1,766 |
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| Marketable securities | 3,518 |
| | 5,032 |
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| Cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities | $ | 6,320 |
| | $ | 6,798 |
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| | Nine Months Ended |
| | October 29, 2017 | | October 30, 2016 |
| | (In millions) |
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 2,144 |
| | $ | 951 |
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| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | $ | 1,302 |
| | $ | (420 | ) |
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | $ | (2,410 | ) | | $ | 813 |
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| | Six Months Ended |
| July 31, 2022 | | August 1, 2021 |
| | | |
| | (In millions) |
| Net cash provided by operating activities | $ | 3,001 | | | $ | 4,556 | |
| Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities | $ | 4,230 | | | $ | (3,805) | |
| Net cash provided by (used in) financing activities | $ | (6,208) | | | $ | 4,030 | |
As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we had $6.32$17.04 billion in cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities, a decrease of $478 million$4.17 billion from the end of fiscal year 2017.2022. Our portfolio of cash equivalents and marketable securities is managed on our behalf by several financial institutions. Our portfolio managers are required to follow our investment policy which requires the purchase of high grade investmenthighly rated fixed income securities, the diversification of assetinvestment types and credit exposures, and certain maturity limits on our portfolio duration.
portfolio.
Cash provided by operating activities increaseddecreased in the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 20182023 compared to the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017,2022, primarily due to higheradvance payments on supply agreements, tax payments, and a decrease in net income andadjusted for certain non-cash items, such as the Arm acquisition termination cost of $1.35 billion, partially offset by changes in working capital.
Cash provided by investing activities increased in the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 20182023 compared to cash used in the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017,2022, primarily due todriven by higher marketable securities sales and maturities and lower purchases of marketable securities.
Cash used in financing activities increaseddecreased in the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 20182023 compared to the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017,2022, which primarily due to cash providedreflects share repurchases and the absence of debt issuance in the first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2017 from the issuance of $2.00 billion of Notes as well as higher repayments of Convertible Notes, higher payments toward share repurchases and tax payments related to employee stock plans in the first nine months of fiscal year 2018.
2023.
Liquidity
Our primary sources of liquidity are our cash and cash equivalents, our marketable securities, and the cash generated by our operations. As of October 29, 2017 and January 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we had $6.32$17.04 billion and $6.80 billion, respectively, in cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities. Our marketable securities consist principally of debt securities of corporations and United Statesissued by the U.S. government and its agencies, asset-backed securities, mortgage-backed securities issued by government-sponsored enterprises, money market fundshighly rated corporations and financial institutions, and foreign government bonds.entities, as well as certificates of deposit issued by highly rated financial institutions. These investmentsmarketable securities are primarily denominated in United StatesU.S. dollars. Our investment policy requires the purchase of high grade investment securities and the diversification of asset types and includes certain limits on our portfolio duration, as specified in our investment policy guidelines. These guidelines also limit the amount of credit exposure to any one issue, issuer or type of instrument. As of October 29, 2017, we were in compliance with our investment policy. As of October 29, 2017, our investments in government agencies and government-sponsored enterprises represented 27% of our total investment portfolio, while the financial sector accounted for 15% of our total investment portfolio. All of our investments are in A/A3 or better rated securities.
Please referRefer to Note 57 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information. We believe that we have sufficient liquidity to meet our operating requirements for at least the next twelve months, and for the foreseeable future, including our future supply obligations. We continuously evaluate our liquidity and capital resources, including our access to external capital, to ensure we can finance our future capital requirements.
For fiscal year 2023, we expect to use our existing cash balances areand cash equivalents, our marketable securities, and the cash generated by our operations to fund our capital investments of approximately $1.80 billion to $2.00 billion related to property and equipment.
We have approximately $1.38 billion of cash, cash equivalents, and marketable securities held in numerous locations throughoutoutside the world, including substantialU.S. for which we have not accrued any related foreign or state taxes if we repatriate these amounts to the U.S. Other than that, substantially all of our cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities held outside of the United States. MostU.S. as of the amounts held outside the United States may be repatriated to the United States. However, if we repatriate foreign earningsJuly 31, 2022 are available for cash requirementsuse in the United States, we would incurU.S. without incurring additional U.S. federal income taxes. We utilized almost all of our accumulated U.S. federal research tax at a rate of 35% less utilization of any net operating loss carryforwards,credits during fiscal year 2022, which has resulted in higher cash tax payments starting in fiscal year 2023. In addition, beginning in fiscal year 2023, the 2017 Tax Cuts and further offset by any applicableJobs Act requires taxpayers to capitalize research and development expenditures and to amortize domestic expenditures over five years and foreign expenditures over fifteen years. This will impact cash flows from operations and will result in significantly higher cash tax credits, plus any state income taxes on such income. Repatriation of some foreign balances may be restricted by local laws.
payments starting in fiscal year 2023.
Capital Return to Shareholders
Dividend payments and share repurchases must be made from cash held in the United States. During the thirdsecond quarter and first nine monthshalf of fiscal year 2018,2023, we repurchased a total of 1 million sharesreturned $3.35 billion and 6 million shares,$5.34 billion, respectively, for $151 million and $909 million, respectively. During the third quarter and first nine months of fiscal year 2018, we also made cash dividend payments to our shareholders of $84 million and $250 million, respectively.
We intend to return $1.25 billion to our shareholders in fiscal year 2018 through a combination of share repurchases and $100 million and $200 million, respectively, in cash dividends. In November 2017, we declared an increase in our quarterly cash dividend to $0.15 per share from $0.14 per share, to be paid with our next quarterly cash dividend on December 15, 2017, to all shareholders of record on November 24, 2017. For fiscal year 2019, we also intend to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases.
Our cash dividend program and the payment of future cash dividends under that program are subject to our Board'sthe continuing determination by our Board of Directors that the dividend program and the declaration of dividends thereunder are in the best interests of our shareholders.
Convertible Notes
Outstanding Indebtedness and Commercial Paper
As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we had $24outstanding:
•$1.25 billion of Notes Due 2023;
•$1.25 billion of Notes Due 2024;
•$1.00 billion of Notes Due 2026;
•$1.25 billion of Notes Due 2028;
•$1.50 billion of Notes Due 2030;
•$1.25 billion of Notes Due 2031;
•$1.00 billion of Notes Due 2040;
•$2.00 billion of Notes Due 2050; and
•$500 million of Convertible Notes outstanding,Due 2060.
We have a $575 million commercial paper program to support general corporate purposes. As of July 31, 2022, we had not issued any commercial paper.
Contractual Obligations
We have unrecognized tax benefits of $834 million, which $8includes related interest and penalties of $72 million recorded in non-current income tax payable as of July 31, 2022. We are expectedunable to be settledreasonably estimate the timing of any potential tax liability, interest payments, or penalties in individual years due to uncertainties in the fourth quarterunderlying income tax positions and the timing of the effective settlement of such tax positions. We are currently under examination by the Internal Revenue Service for our fiscal year 2018. Please referyears 2018 and 2019. Refer to Note 11 of the Notes to the Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion.
Operating Capital and Capital Expenditure Requirements
We believe that our existing cash balances and anticipated cash flows from operations will be sufficient to meet our operating requirements for at least the next twelve months.
Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements
In the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, we plan to refinance the operating lease financing arrangement related to our new Santa Clara campus building and purchase the property for approximately $350 million. Please refer to Note 126 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion regarding our operating lease financing arrangement.further information.
Contractual Obligations
As of October 29, 2017, we had outstanding inventory purchaseOther than the contractual obligations totaling $1.16 billion. Except as described above, with respect to the Convertible Notes and the Notes, and the plan to purchase our Santa Clara campus building, there were no other material changes outside the ordinary course of business in our contractual obligations from those disclosed in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2017.
Please see30, 2022. Refer to Item 7, “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations - Liquidity and Capital Resources” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 201730, 2022 for a description of our contractual obligations. For a description of our operating lease obligations, long-term debt, and purchase obligations, refer to Note 3, Note 12, and Note 13 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements, respectively.
Climate Change
To date, there has been no material impact to our results of operations associated with global sustainability regulations, compliance, costs from sourcing renewable energy or climate-related business trends. There are no material current climate change regulations impacting us, however, we are monitoring potential regulation changes in California, the United States, the United Kingdom, the European Union and other jurisdictions. We believe that climate change has not had a material impact to our revenue to date. We have not experienced any significant physical effects of climate change to date on our operations and results, nor any significant impacts on the cost or availability of insurance.
Adoption of New and Recently Issued Accounting Pronouncements
Please seeRefer to Note 1 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of adoption of a new and recently issued accounting pronouncements.pronouncement.
ITEM 3. QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE DISCLOSURES ABOUT MARKET RISK
Investment and Interest Rate Risk
Financial market risks related to investment and interest rate risk are described in our 2017 Annual Report on Form 10-K.10-K for the fiscal year ended January 30, 2022. As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, there have been no material changes, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the financial market risks described as of January 29, 2017.30, 2022.
Foreign Exchange Rate Risk
The impact of foreign currency transactions related to foreign exchange rate risk is described in our 2017 Annual Report on Form 10-K.10-K for the fiscal year ended January 30, 2022. As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, there have been no material changes, including the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, to the foreign exchange rate risks described as of January 29, 2017.30, 2022.
Please seeRefer to Note 911 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for additional information.
ITEM 4. CONTROLS AND PROCEDURES
Controls and Procedures
Disclosure Controls and Procedures
Based on their evaluation as of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, has concluded that our disclosure controls and procedures (as defined in Rule 13a-15(e)13a-15 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) were effective to provide reasonable assurance.
Changes in Internal Control Over Financial Reporting
There were no changesIn fiscal year 2022, we began an upgrade of our enterprise resource planning, or ERP, system, which will update much of our existing core financial systems. The ERP system is designed to accurately maintain our financial records used to report operating results. The upgrade will occur in phases. During the second quarter of fiscal year 2023, we completed the consolidated financial reporting phase of the implementation, which included updating our internal control over financial reportingreporting. We will continue to evaluate each quarter whether there are changes that materially affect our internal control over financial reporting. There were no other changes that occurred during the thirdsecond quarter of fiscal year 20182023 that have materially affected, or are reasonably likely to materially affect, our internal control over financial reporting.
Inherent Limitations on Effectiveness of Controls
Our management, including our Chief Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer, does not expect that our disclosure controls and procedures or our internal controls, will prevent all error and all fraud. A control system, no matter how well conceived and operated, can provide only reasonable, not absolute, assurance that the objectives of the control system are met. Further, the design of a control system must reflect the fact that there are resource constraints, and the benefits of controls must be considered relative to their costs. Because of the inherent limitations in all control systems, no evaluation of controls can provide absolute assurance that all control issues and instances of fraud, if any, within NVIDIA have been detected.
PART II. OTHER INFORMATION
ITEM 1. LEGAL PROCEEDINGS
Please seeRefer to Part I, Item 1, Note 1213 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for a discussion of significant developments in our legal proceedings since January 29, 2017. Please also see30, 2022. Also refer to Item 3, “Legal Proceedings” in our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 201730, 2022 for a prior discussion of our legal proceedings.
ITEM 1A. RISK FACTORS
Please refer to the description ofOther than the risk factors associated with our business previously disclosed in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2017. Therelisted below, there have been no material changes from the risk factors previously described under Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2017.
30, 2022 and Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended May 1, 2022.
Before you buy our common stock, you should know that making such an investment involves some risks including, but not limited to, the risks described in Item 1A of our Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended January 29, 2017.30, 2022, in Item 1A of our Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended May 1, 2022, and below. Additionally, any one of those risks could harm our business, financial condition and results of operations, which could cause our stock price to decline. Additional risks and uncertainties not presently known to us or that we currently deem immaterial may also impair our business operations.
If we fail to estimate customer demand properly, mismatches between supply and demand can occur, harming our financial results.
Because we do not manufacture the semiconductors used for our products, we are dependent on third parties to manufacture and assemble our products. Our manufacturing lead times are very long, which requires us to make estimates of customers’ future demand. At the same time, we do not have a guaranteed supply of wafers, components and capacity, and our supply deliveries and production may be non-linear within a quarter or year, which has previously caused changes to expected revenue and cash flows, and which may reoccur in the future. If our estimates of customer demand are ultimately inaccurate, as we have experienced from time to time, these conditions could lead to a significant mismatch between supply and demand. This mismatch has resulted in product shortages and excess inventory, has varied across our market platforms, and significantly harmed our financial results. We build finished products and maintain inventory in advance of anticipated demand. In periods of shortages impacting the semiconductor industry and/or limited supply or capacity in our supply chain, as we have experienced in the past, the lead time on our orders for certain supply has extended to more than twelve months, compared to a historical lead time of approximately six months. As a result, we have paid premiums and provided deposits to secure future supply and capacity, which have increased our product costs, and may need to continue to do so in the future. We may not have the ability to reduce our supply commitments at the same rate or at all if our revenue declines. Our supply, which includes inventory on hand, purchase obligations and prepaid supply agreements, has grown significantly due to current supply chain conditions and complexity of our products. Purchase obligations and prepaid supply agreements represent approximately three quarters of our total supply.
Demand for our products is based on many factors, including our product introductions and transitions, time to market, competitor product releases and announcements, competing technologies, and changes in macroeconomic conditions, including rising inflation. Each of these factors has previously impacted, and can in the future impact, the timing and volume of our revenue. Our demand predictions may not be correct, as we have experienced from time to time. Product transitions are complex and frequently negatively impact our revenue as we manage shipments of legacy prior architecture products and channel partners prepare and adjust to support new products. We are entering a timeframe when we will transition architectures for both our Gaming and Data Center products, which may impair our ability to predict demand and to make planned shipments. We may experience, and have in the past experienced, reduced demand for current generation architectures when customers anticipate transitions. If we are unable to execute our architectural transitions as planned for any reason, our financial results may be negatively impacted. Our ability to sell certain products has in the past been and can in the future be impeded if components from third parties that are necessary for the finished product are not available. Additionally, we sell most of our products through channel partners, who sell to retailers, distributors, and/or end customers. As a result, the decisions made by our channel partners, retailers and distributors in response to changing market conditions and changes in end user demand for our products have impacted and could in the future continue to impact our ability to properly forecast demand, particularly as they are based on estimates provided by various downstream parties.
If we underestimate our customers' future demand for our products, our foundry partners may not have adequate lead-time or capacity to increase production and we may not be able to obtain sufficient inventory to fill orders on a timely basis. Even if we are able to increase production levels to meet customer demand, we may not be able to do so in a cost-effective or timely manner, or our original equipment manufacturers may experience supply constraints. If we fail to fulfill our customers’ orders on a timely basis, or at all, our customer relationships could be damaged, we could lose revenue and market share and our reputation could be harmed.
On the other hand, if we overestimate our customers’ future demand for our products, and if customers cancel or defer orders or choose to purchase from our competitors, we may not be able to reduce our inventory purchase commitments. In the past, we have experienced a reduction in average selling prices, including as a result of channel pricing programs that we have implemented in the past and may continue to implement, as a result of our overestimation of future demand, which has reduced our revenue and gross margins, and we may need to continue these reductions. We have had to increase prices for our Data Center products as a result of our suppliers’ increase in prices, and may need to continue to do so for other products in the future, which may negatively impact demand. We have also written-down our inventory, incurred cancellation penalties, and recorded impairments, negatively impacting our gross margins and our overall financial results. These impacts were amplified by our placement of non-cancellable and non-returnable purchasing terms, well in advance of our historical lead times and could be exacerbated if we need to make changes to the design of future products. The risk of these impacts has increased recently, as our purchase obligations and prepaids have grown and become a greater portion of our total supply while our revenue has sequentially declined.
In addition to the growing lead times described above, there are many factors that have caused and/or could in the future cause us to either underestimate or overestimate our customers’ future demand for our products, or otherwise cause a mismatch between supply and demand for our products. Those factors include such things as:
•changes in business and economic conditions resulting in decreased consumer confidence, including downturns in our target markets and/or overall economy, rising inflation, and changes in the credit market;
•sudden or sustained government lockdowns or actions to control COVID-19 case spread;
•rapidly changing technology or customer requirements;
•new product introductions resulting in less demand for existing products;
•new or unexpected end use cases;
•increase in demand for competitive products, including competitive actions;
•fluctuations in demand for our products related to cryptocurrency mining; or
•changes in governmental policies, such as increased restrictions on gaming usage or cloud service providers.
In recent periods, COVID-19-related disruptions and lockdowns in China have created and may continue to create supply and logistics constraints. The war in Ukraine has further strained global supply chains and may in the future result in a shortage of key materials that our suppliers, including our foundry partners, require to satisfy our needs. Extended lead times may continue if we experience other supply constraints caused by natural disasters or other events. In addition, geopolitical tensions involving Taiwan and China, which comprise a significant portion of our revenue and where we have suppliers, contract manufacturers, and assembly partners who are critical to our supply continuity, could have a material adverse impact on us.
Our GPUs are designed for the Gaming, Data Center, Professional Visualization and Automotive markets. The use of our GPUs for use cases other than that for which they were designed and marketed, including new and unexpected use cases, has impacted and can in the future impact demand for our products, including by leading to inconsistent spikes and drops in demand. For example, many years ago, our Gaming GPUs began to be used for digital currency mining, including blockchain-based platforms such as Ethereum. It is difficult for us to estimate with any reasonable degree of precision, the past or current impact of cryptocurrency mining, or forecast the future impact of cryptocurrency mining, on demand for our products. Volatility in the cryptocurrency market, including new compute technologies, price changes in cryptocurrencies, government cryptocurrency policies and regulations, new cryptocurrency standards, and changes in the method of verifying blockchain transactions, has impacted and can in the future impact cryptocurrency mining and demand for our products and can further impact our ability to estimate demand for our products. Changes to cryptocurrency standards and processes including, but not limited to, the pending Ethereum 2.0 merge may decrease the usage of GPUs for Ethereum mining as well as create increased aftermarket resales of our GPUs, which could
negatively impact retail prices for our GPUs, increase returns of our products in the distribution channel, and reduce demand for our new GPUs. We have introduced Lite Hash Rate, or LHR, GeForce GPUs with limited Ethereum mining capability and provided CMP products in an effort to address demand from gamers and direct miners to CMP. Beginning in the second quarter of fiscal year 2022, most desktop NVIDIA Ampere architecture GeForce GPU shipments were LHR to help direct GeForce GPUs to gamers. Attempts in the aftermarket to improve the hash rate capabilities of our LHR cards have been successful and our gaming cards may become more attractive to miners, increasing demand for our gaming GPUs and limiting our ability to supply our gaming cards to non-mining customers. We cannot predict whether our strategy of using LHR cards and CMP will achieve our desired outcome. In addition, our new products or previously sold products may be resold online or on the unauthorized “gray market,” which also makes demand forecasting difficult. Gray market products or reseller marketplaces compete with our distribution channels.
Consumer and enterprise behavior during the COVID-19 pandemic, such as fluctuating demand for our Gaming, Data Center, and workstation products, has made it more difficult for us to estimate future demand and may have changed pre-pandemic behaviors. At the same time, restrictions that may be imposed or reinstated as the pandemic continues, such as recent lockdown measures due to COVID-19 containment efforts in China, have negatively impacted end customer sales for our products in China and this impact may continue if future lockdowns are imposed. These challenges in estimating demand are expected to be more pronounced or volatile in the future on both a global and regional basis and may continue in the future when the effects of the pandemic subside.
In the second quarter of fiscal year 2023, Gaming revenue experienced lower sell-in of our Gaming GPUs reflecting reduced channel partner sales due to macroeconomic headwinds, including the negative impact of high inflation on consumer spending and weaker consumer purchasing power in markets whose currencies weakened relative to the U.S. dollar, as our sales are in U.S. dollars. Our channel partners reduced their inventory and are transitioning to a lower value mix of inventory to better align with demand as well as an architectural transition, and we implemented pricing programs with them to address challenging market conditions that we expect to persist into the third quarter of fiscal year 2023. The sequential decline in Gaming revenue also resulted from the war in Ukraine impacting sales in Europe and lockdowns in China due to COVID-19. The extent to which reduced cryptocurrency mining contributed to the decline in Gaming demand is difficult for us to reasonably quantify. Economic conditions in China drove lower sales to China hyperscale customers, impacting our Data Center revenue, and drove lower sales of Gaming products. We and our customers are also experiencing Data Center supply chain disruptions as our customers delay purchases pending the availability of other third party components. These recent reductions in demand and our reduced expectations of future demand have required us to record charges for excess inventory on hand and on order, and cancellation and underutilization penalties. Potential future demand reductions could require additional reserves. Mismatches between our supply and demand may occur in future quarters.
We depend on third parties and their technology to manufacture, assemble, test, package or design our products, which reduces our control over product quantity and quality, manufacturing yields, development, enhancement and product delivery schedule and could harm our business.
We do not manufacture the semiconductors used for our products and do not own or operate a wafer fabrication facility. We depend on foundries to manufacture our semiconductor wafers using their fabrication equipment and techniques. We do not assemble, test or package our products, but instead contract with independent subcontractors. We also rely on third-party software development tools to assist us in the design, simulation and verification of new products or product enhancements. The design requirements necessary to meet consumer demands for greater functionality from our products may exceed the capabilities of available software development tools. While we have entered in the past and may in the future enter into long-term supply and capacity commitments, we may not be able to secure sufficient commitments for capacity to address our business needs. We face several risks which could adversely affect our ability to meet customer demand and scale our supply chain, negatively impact longer-term demand for our products and services, and adversely affect our business operations, gross margin, revenue and/or financial results, including:
•lack of guaranteed supply of wafers, components and capacity or decommitment and potential higher wafer and component prices, from incorrectly estimating demand and failing to place orders with our suppliers with sufficient quantities or in a timely manner;
•failure by our foundries or contract manufacturers to procure raw materials or to provide adequate levels of manufacturing or test capacity for our products;
•failure by our foundries to develop, obtain or successfully implement high quality process technologies, including transitions to smaller geometry process technologies such as advanced process node technologies and memory designs needed to manufacture our products;
•limited number of global suppliers, foundries, contract manufacturers, assembly and test providers, and memory manufacturers;
•loss of a supplier and additional expense and/or production delays as a result of qualifying a new foundry or subcontractor and commencing volume production or testing in the event of a loss of or a decision to add or change a supplier;
•lack of direct control over product quantity, quality and delivery schedules;
•suppliers or their suppliers failing to supply high quality products and/or making changes to their products without our qualification;
•delays in product shipments, shortages, a decrease in product quality and/or higher expenses in the event our subcontractors or foundries prioritize our competitors’ orders over ours;
•low manufacturing yields resulting from a failure in our product design or a foundry’s proprietary process technology; and
•disruptions in manufacturing, assembly and other processes due to heat wave closures and electricity conservation efforts.
We have incurred and could in the future incur significant expenses to remediate defects in our products, which can damage our reputation and cause us to lose market share.
Our hardware and software product offerings are complex and they have in the past and may in the future contain defects or security vulnerabilities, or experience failures or unsatisfactory performance due to any number of issues in design, fabrication, packaging, materials and/or use within a system. These risks may increase as our products are introduced into new devices, markets, technologies and applications or as new versions are released. These risks further increase when we rely on partners to supply and manufacture components that are used in our products, as these arrangements reduce our direct control over production. Although arrangements with component providers may contain provisions for product defect expense reimbursement, we generally remain responsible to the customer for warranty product defects that may occur from time to time. Some failures in our products or services have been in the past and may in the future be only discovered after a product or service has been shipped or used. Undiscovered vulnerabilities in our products or services could result in loss of data or intangible property, or expose our end customers to unscrupulous third parties who develop and deploy malicious software programs that could attack our products or services. Defects or failure of our products to perform to specifications could lead to substantial damage to the products or the product in which our device has been integrated by OEMs, ODMs, AIBs and Tier 1 automotive suppliers, and to the user of such end product. Any such defect may cause us to incur significant warranty, support and repair or replacement costs as part of a product recall or otherwise, write-off the value of related inventory, and divert the attention of our engineering personnel from our product development efforts to find and correct the issue. Our efforts to remedy these issues may not be timely or may not be satisfactory to our customers. An error or defect in new products or releases or related software drivers after commencement of commercial shipments could result in failure to achieve market acceptance, loss of design wins, temporary or permanent withdrawal from a product or market, and harm to our relationships with existing and prospective customers and partners and consumers’ perceptions of our brand, which would in turn negatively impact our business operations, gross margin, revenue and/or financial results. We may be required to reimburse our customers, partners or consumers, including for costs to repair or replace products in the field or in connection with indemnification obligations, or pay fines imposed by regulatory agencies.
For example, a defect was identified in a third-party component embedded in certain Data Center products. This defect has had, and other defects may in the future have, an adverse effect on our cost and supply of components and finished goods. While we have been working to fix the defect, we have needed to replace those products instead of repairing them, resulting in greater costs to us. These costs could be significant in future periods. We recorded $122 million for warranty reserves in the second quarter of fiscal year 2023 primarily in connection with this defect. While we believe we have accurately recorded for the warranty reserve, we may need to record additional amounts in the future if our estimate proves to be incorrect. If a product liability claim is brought against us, even if the alleged damage is due to the actions or inactions of a third party, such as within our supply chain, the cost of defending the claim could be significant and would divert the efforts of our technical and management personnel and harm our business. Further, our business liability insurance may be inadequate or future coverage may be unavailable on acceptable terms, which could adversely impact our financial results.
We are subject to risks and uncertainties associated with international operations, including adverse economic conditions, which may harm our business.
We conduct our business and have offices worldwide. Our semiconductor wafers are manufactured, assembled, tested and packaged by third parties located outside of the United States and we generated 70% and 74% of our revenue for the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2023, respectively, from sales outside of the United States. The global nature of our business subjects us to a number of risks and uncertainties, which could have a material adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations, including:
•domestic and international economic and political conditions between countries in which we and our suppliers and manufacturers do business;
•government lockdowns to control COVID-19 cases;
•differing legal standards with respect to protection of IP and employment practices;
•domestic and international business and cultural practices that differ;
•disruptions to capital markets, counter-inflation policies, and/or currency fluctuations; and
•natural disasters, acts of war or other military actions, terrorism, public health issues, and other catastrophic events.
Adverse changes in global, regional or local economic conditions, including recession or slowing growth, the COVID-19 pandemic or other global or local health issues, geopolitical instability, changes or uncertainty in fiscal, monetary, or trade policy, higher interest rates, tighter credit, inflation, lower capital expenditures by businesses including on IT infrastructure, increases in unemployment, labor shortages and lower consumer confidence and spending, periodically occur. Increased costs for wafers, components, logistics, and other supply chain expenses, driven in part by inflation, have negatively impacted our gross margin and may continue to impact our gross margin. Inflation may also continue to cause increased supply, employee, facilities and infrastructure costs, decreased demand for our products, and volatility in the financial markets. To the extent such inflation continues, increases or both, it may reduce our margins and have a material adverse effect on our financial performance.
Economic and industry uncertainty or changes could have adverse, wide-ranging effects on our business and financial results, including:
•decrease in demand for our products, services and technologies and those of our customers or licensees;
•the inability of our suppliers to deliver on their supply commitments to us;
•our customers’ or our licensees’ inability to supply products to customers and/or end users;
•the insolvency of key suppliers, distributors, customers or licensees;
•limits on our ability to forecast operating results and make business decisions;
•difficulties in obtaining capital;
•reduced profitability may also cause some customers to scale back operations, exit businesses, merge with other manufacturers, or file for bankruptcy protection and potentially cease operations;
•lead to consolidation or strategic alliances among other equipment manufacturers, which could adversely affect our ability to compete effectively; and
•increased credit and collectability risks, higher borrowing costs or reduced availability of capital markets, reduced liquidity, adverse impacts on our suppliers, failures of counterparties including financial institutions and insurers, asset impairments, and declines in the value of our financial instruments.
We have engineering, sales support operations and manufacturing located in Israel. The State of Israel and companies with business in Israel have been and could in future be the subject of an economic boycott. Other countries have restricted and may continue in the future to restrict business with the State of Israel and companies with Israeli operations. Such laws and policies may have an adverse effect on our business, financial condition and results of operations.
We may not be able to realize the potential benefits of business investments or acquisitions, and we may not be able to successfully integrate acquisition targets, which could hurt our ability to grow our business, develop new products or sell our products.
We have acquired and invested and may continue to do so in businesses that offer products, services and technologies that we believe will help expand or enhance our existing strategic objectives.
Acquisitions or investments involve significant challenges and risks and could impair our ability to grow our business, develop new products or sell our products and ultimately could have a negative impact on our financial results. Given that our resources are limited, if we pursue a particular transaction, we may limit our ability to enter into other transactions that could help us achieve our strategic objectives. If we are unable to timely complete acquisitions, including due to delays and challenges in obtaining regulatory approvals, we may be unable to pursue other transactions, we may not be able to retain critical talent from the target company, technology may evolve and make the acquisition less attractive, and other changes can take place which could reduce the anticipated benefits of the transaction and negatively impact our business. For example, in February 2022, NVIDIA and SoftBank announced the termination of the Share Purchase Agreement whereby NVIDIA would have acquired Arm from SoftBank. The parties agreed to terminate because of significant regulatory challenges preventing the completion of the transaction. We recorded in operating expenses a $1.35 billion charge in the first quarter of fiscal year 2023 reflecting the write-off of the prepayment provided at signing in September 2020. In addition, to the extent that our perceived ability to consummate acquisitions has been harmed, future acquisitions may be more difficult, complex or expensive. Further, if we hold investments in publicly traded companies, they could create volatility in our results and may generate losses up to the value of the investment.
Additional risks related to acquisitions or strategic investments include, but are not limited to:
•difficulty in integrating the technology, products, policies, processes, or operations and integrating and retaining the employees of the acquired business;
•diversion of capital and other resources, including management’s attention;
•assumption of liabilities and incurring amortization expenses, impairment charges to goodwill or write-downs of acquired assets;
•integrating accounting, forecasting and controls, procedures and reporting cycles;
•coordinating and integrating operations, particularly in countries in which we do not currently operate;
•difficulty in realizing a satisfactory return and uncertainties to realize the benefits of an acquisition or strategic investment, if at all;
•difficulty or inability in obtaining governmental, regulatory approval or restrictions or other consents and approvals or financing;
•stock price impact, fines, fees or reputation harm if we are unable to obtain regulatory approval for an acquisition or are otherwise unable to close an acquisition;
•legal proceedings initiated as a result of an acquisition or investment;
•potential issuances of debt to finance our acquisitions, resulting in increased debt, increased interest expense, and compliance with debt covenants or other restrictions;
•the potential for our acquisitions to result in dilutive issuances of our equity securities;
•the potential variability of the amount and form of any performance-based consideration;
•negative changes in general economic conditions in the regions or the industries in which we or our target operate;
•potential failure of our due diligence processes to identify significant issues with the assets or company in which we are investing or are acquiring; and
•impairment of relationships with, or loss of our or our target’s employees, vendors and customers, as a result of our acquisition or investment.
For example, when integrating acquisition target systems into our own, we have experienced and may continue to experience challenges including lengthy and costly systems integration, delays in purchasing and shipping products, difficulties with system integration via electronic data interchange and other processes with our key suppliers and customers, and training and change management needs of integration personnel. These challenges have impacted our results of operations and may continue to do so in the future.
Our operating results have in the past fluctuated and may in the future fluctuate, and if our operating results are below the expectations of securities analysts or investors, our stock price could decline.
Our operating results have in the past fluctuated and may continue to fluctuate due to numerous factors described in these risk factors. Therefore, investors should not rely on past comparisons of our results of operations as an indication of our future performance. Additional factors that could affect our results of operations include, but are not limited to:
•our ability to adjust spending to offset revenue shortfalls due to the multi-year development cycle for some of our products and services;
•our ability to comply with our customers’ contractual obligations;
•our extended payment term arrangements with certain customers, the inability of some customers to make required payments, our ability to obtain credit insurance for these customers and their extended payment terms, and customer bad debt write-offs;
•our vendors' payment requirements;
•unanticipated costs associated with environmental liabilities; and
•changes in financial accounting standards or interpretations of existing standards.
Any one or more of the factors discussed above could prevent us from achieving our anticipated future financial results. For example, we have granted and may continue to grant extended payment terms to some customers, particularly during macroeconomic downturns, which could impact our ability to collect payment. Our vendors have requested and may continue to ask for shorter payment terms, which may impact our cash flow generation. These arrangements reduce the cash we have available for general business operations. Failure to meet our expectations or the expectations of our investors or security analysts is likely to cause our stock price to decline or experience substantial price volatility.
Our operations could be affected by the complex laws, rules and regulations to which our business is subject, and political and other actions may adversely impact our business.
We are subject to laws and regulations domestically and worldwide, affecting our operations in areas including, but not limited to, IP ownership and infringement; taxes; import and export requirements and tariffs; anti-corruption; business acquisitions; foreign exchange controls and cash repatriation restrictions; data privacy requirements; competition and antitrust; advertising; employment; product regulations; cybersecurity; environmental, health, and safety requirements; the responsible use of AI; climate change; cryptocurrency; and consumer laws. Compliance with such requirements can be onerous and expensive, could impact our competitive position, and may impact our business operations negatively. For example, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and other anti-corruption laws and regulations prohibit us from engaging in certain business practices. There can be no assurance that our employees, contractors, suppliers, or agents will not violate policies, controls, and procedures that we have designed to help ensure compliance with applicable laws. Violations of these laws and regulations can result in fines; criminal sanctions against us, our officers, or our employees; prohibitions on the conduct of our business; and damage to our reputation. Should any of these laws, rules and regulations be amended or expanded, or new ones enacted, we could incur materially greater compliance costs and/or restrictions on our ability to manufacture our products and operate our business. For example, we may face increased compliance costs as a result of changes or increases in anti-competition legislation, regulation, administrative rule making, increased focus from regulators on cybersecurity vulnerabilities and risks, and enforcement activity resulting from growing public concern over concentration of economic power in corporations.
Government actions, including trade protection and national security policies of U.S. and foreign government bodies, such as tariffs, import or export regulations, including deemed export restrictions, trade and economic sanctions, decrees, quotas or other trade barriers and restrictions could affect our ability to ship products, provide services to our customers and employees, do business without an export license with entities on the U.S. Department of Commerce’s U.S. Entity List or other U.S. government restricted parties lists (which is expected to change from time to time), and generally fulfill our contractual obligations and have a material adverse effect on our business. For example, in response to the war in Ukraine, the United States and certain allies have imposed economic sanctions and export control
measures and may impose additional sanctions or export control measures, which have resulted in and could in the future result in, among other things, severe or complete restrictions on exports to and other commerce and business dealings involving Russia, Belarus, certain regions of Ukraine, and/or particular entities and individuals. Such actions have limited or blocked, or could in the future limit or block the passage of our products, services and support into Russia, Belarus, and certain regions of Ukraine or other regions determined to be supporting Russia, which may result in claims brought against us for failure to fulfill our contractual obligations, and restrict access by our Russian or Ukrainian employees (both within and outside of Russia and Ukraine) to our systems, negatively impacting productivity. Given these recent sanctions and export restrictions imposed by the United States and foreign government bodies, during the first quarter of fiscal year 2023, we paused all direct sales and support in Russia. Concurrently, the war in Ukraine has impacted end customer sales in EMEA and may continue to do so in the future. While we have policies and procedures in place to ensure compliance with sanctions and trade restrictions, our employees, contractors, partners, and agents may take actions in violations of such policies and applicable law, for which we may be ultimately held responsible. If we were ever found to have violated export control laws or sanctions of the U.S. or similar applicable non-U.S. laws, we may be subject to various penalties available under the laws, any of which could have a material and adverse impact on our business, operating results and financial condition. Additionally, changes in the public perception of governments in the regions where we operate or plan to operate could negatively impact our business and results of operations.
Geopolitical tensions and conflicts worldwide, including but not limited to China, Hong Kong, Israel, Korea and Taiwan where the manufacture of our product components and final assembly of our products are concentrated, may result in changing regulatory requirements, trade policies, export controls, import duties and economic disruptions that could impact our operating strategies, product demand, access to global markets, hiring, and profitability. The increasing focus on the strategic importance of AI technologies may result in additional regulatory restrictions that target products and services capable of enabling or facilitating AI, including some or all of our product and service offerings. Such restrictions could include additional unilateral or multilateral export controls on certain products or technology, including but not limited to AI technologies. As geopolitical tensions have increased, semiconductors associated with AI, including GPUs and associated products, are increasingly the focus of export control restrictions proposed by stakeholders in the U.S. and its allies, and it is likely that additional unilateral or multilateral controls will be adopted. Such controls may be very broad in scope and application, prohibit us from exporting our products to any or all customers in one or more markets, including but not limited to China, and could negatively impact our manufacturing, testing, and warehousing locations and options, or could impose other conditions that limit our ability to serve demand abroad and could negatively and materially impact our business, revenue, and financial results. Export controls targeting GPUs and semiconductors associated with AI, which are increasingly likely, would restrict our ability to export our technology, products, or services even though competitors may not be subject to similar restrictions, creating a competitive disadvantage for us and negatively impacting our business and financial results. Increasing use of economic sanctions may also impact demand for our products or services, negatively impacting our business and financial results. Additional unilateral or multilateral controls are also likely to include deemed export control limitations that negatively impact the ability of our research and development teams to execute our roadmap or other objectives in a timely manner. Additional export restrictions may not only impact our ability to serve overseas markets, but also provoke responses from foreign governments, including China, that negatively impact our supply chain or our ability to provide our products and services to customers in all markets worldwide, which could also substantially reduce our revenue.
On August 26, 2022, the U.S. government, or USG, informed us that it has imposed a new license requirement, effective immediately, for any future export to China (including Hong Kong) and Russia of our A100 and forthcoming H100 integrated circuits. DGX or any other systems which incorporate A100 or H100 integrated circuits and our A100X are also covered by the new license requirement. The license requirement also includes any future NVIDIA integrated circuit achieving both peak performance and chip-to-chip I/O performance equal to or greater than thresholds that are roughly equivalent to the A100, as well as any system that includes those circuits. A license is required to export technology to support or develop covered products. The USG indicated that the new license requirement will address the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a ‘military end use’ or ‘military end user’ in China and Russia. We do not sell products to customers in Russia.
The new license requirement may impact our ability to complete our development of H100 in a timely manner or support existing customers of A100 and may require us to transition certain operations out of China, which could be costly and time consuming, and adversely affect our research and development and supply and distribution operations, as well as our revenue, during any such transition period. We are engaged with the USG and are seeking exemptions for our internal development and support activities.
We are engaging with customers in China and are seeking to satisfy their planned or future purchases of our Data Center products with products not subject to the new license requirement. To the extent that a customer requires
products covered by the new license requirement, we may seek a license for the customer but have no assurance that the USG will grant any exemptions or licenses for any customer, or that the USG will act on them in a timely manner. The new requirement may have a disproportionate impact on NVIDIA and may disadvantage NVIDIA against our competitors, who are not subject to the same restrictions.
Our outlook for our third fiscal quarter provided on August 24, 2022 included approximately $400 million in potential sales to China which may be subject to the new license requirement. Our future revenue and profitability may be substantially reduced relative to this outlook, and our competitive position may be harmed, if customers do not want to purchase our alternative product offerings or if the USG does not grant licenses in a timely manner or denies licenses to significant customers. Even if the USG grants the requested licenses, the new requirement may benefit our competitors, as the licensing process will make our sales and support efforts more cumbersome, less certain, and encourage customers in China to pursue alternatives to our products, including semiconductor suppliers based in China, Europe, and Israel.
Recent restrictions imposed by the Chinese government on the duration of gaming activities and access to games may adversely affect our Gaming revenue, and increased oversight of digital platform companies may adversely affect our Data Center revenue. Additionally, revisions to laws or regulations or their interpretation and enforcement could result in increased taxation, trade sanctions, the imposition of import duties or tariffs, restrictions and controls on imports or exports, or other retaliatory actions, which could have an adverse effect on our business plans or impact the timing of our shipments.
We are subject to stringent and changing data privacy and security obligations. Privacy concerns relating to our products and services could damage our reputation, deter current and potential users from using our products and services, or result in legal or regulatory proceedings and liability.
Our products and services may provide us with access to sensitive, confidential or personal data or information that is subject to privacy and security laws, regulations, industry standards, external and internal policies, contracts and other obligations that govern the processing of such data by us and on our behalf. Concerns about our practices or the ultimate use of our products and services with regard to the collection, use, retention, security or disclosure of personal information or other privacy-related matters, including for use in AI, even if unfounded, could damage our reputation and adversely affect our operating results. The theft, loss, or misuse of personal data in our possession or by one of our partners could result in damage to our reputation, regulatory proceedings, disruption of our business activities or increased security costs and costs related to defending legal claims.
Worldwide regulatory authorities are considering and have approved various legislative proposals concerning data protection. The European Union adopted the General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR, and the United Kingdom similarly adopted the U.K. GDPR, governing the strict handling of personal data of persons within the European Economic Area, or EEA, and the United Kingdom, respectively, including its use and protection and the ability of persons whose data is stored to access, correct, and delete such data about themselves. If we are found not to comply, we could be subject to penalties of up to €20 million or 4% of worldwide revenue, whichever is greater, and individuals may initiate litigation related to our processing of their personal data. Furthermore, there exists a proposed European regulation related to AI that, if adopted, could impose onerous obligations and could require us to change our business practices.
Certain jurisdictions have enacted data localization laws and cross-border personal data transfer laws. For example, the GDPR generally restricts the transfer of personal data to countries outside of the EEA. The European Commission released a set of “Standard Contractual Clauses” designed for entities to validly transfer personal data out of the EEA to jurisdictions that the European Commission has not found to provide an adequate level of protection, including the United States. While the European Union and United States governments have recently announced an agreement in principle on a new bilateral cross-border transfer mechanism, it is uncertain whether this agreement will be overturned in court like the previous two European Union-United States bilateral cross-border transfer agreements. Other jurisdictions, such as China, have enacted or are considering similar cross-border personal data transfer laws and local personal data residency laws, any of which would increase the cost and complexity of doing business and could result in fines from regulators. The inability to import personal data to the United States could significantly and negatively impact our business operations, limit our ability to collaborate with parties that are subject to European and other data privacy and security laws, or require us to increase our personal data processing capabilities in Europe and/or elsewhere at significant expense.
The United States federal, state and local governments have enacted numerous data privacy and security laws, including for data breach notification, personal data privacy, and consumer protection. The California Consumer Privacy
Act of 2018, or CCPA, gives California residents the right to access, delete and opt-out of certain sharing of their personal information, and to receive detailed information about how it is used and shared. The CCPA allows for statutory fines of up to $7,500 per violation and the law created a private right of action for certain data breaches. California’s privacy laws will further expand in 2023 under the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020, or CPRA, which may restrict the use of certain categories of sensitive personal information; further restrict the use of cross-contextual advertising techniques; restrict the retention of personal information; expand the types of data breaches subject to the private right of action; and establish the California Privacy Protection Agency to impose administrative fines. Virginia, Colorado, Utah and Connecticut have each passed their own privacy legislation which differ from the CPRA and each become effective in 2023. If we become subject to new data privacy laws the risk of enforcement action against us could increase as we become subject to additional obligations.
The interpretation and application of consumer and data protection laws in the United States, Europe and elsewhere are quickly changing and may be interpreted and applied in an increasingly stringent fashion and in a manner that is inconsistent with our data practices. These obligations may necessitate changes to our information technologies, systems, and practices and to those of any third parties that process personal data on our behalf. Despite our efforts, our personnel or third parties upon whom we rely may fail to comply with such obligations. If we fail, or are perceived to have failed, to address or comply with data privacy and security obligations, we could face significant consequences, including but not limited to, government enforcement actions, litigation, additional reporting requirements and/or oversight, bans on processing personal data and orders to destroy or not use personal data. Any of these events could have a material adverse effect on our reputation, business, or financial condition.
We have exposure to additional tax liabilities and our operating results may be adversely impacted by higher than expected tax rates and other tax-related factors.
As a multinational corporation, we are subject to income taxes as well as non-income-based taxes, such as payroll, sales, use, value-added, net worth, property and goods and services taxes, in both the United States and various foreign jurisdictions. Our domestic and international tax liabilities are subject to the allocation of revenue and expenses in different jurisdictions. Significant judgment is required in determining our worldwide provision for income taxes and other tax liabilities. We are regularly under audit by tax authorities in different jurisdictions. For example, we are currently under examination by the Internal Revenue Service for our fiscal years 2018 and 2019 and under audit in Germany, Israel and India. Although we believe our tax estimates are reasonable, tax authorities may disagree with certain positions we have taken, and any adverse outcome of such a review or audit could increase our worldwide effective tax rate, increase the amount of non-income taxes imposed on our business, and harm our financial position, results of operations, and cash flows. Further, changes in United States federal, and state or international tax laws applicable to multinational corporations or other fundamental law changes, including changes to existing tax rules and regulations under the current U.S. administration and Congress, such as resulting from the recently enacted Inflation Reduction Act, parts of which are effective for us in fiscal year 2023, and as a result of recommendations from intergovernmental economic organizations such as the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, may materially impact our tax expense, the amount of non-income tax imposed on our business, and cash flows.
Our future effective tax rate may also be affected by such factors as changes in our business or statutory rates, changes in jurisdictions in which our profits are determined to be earned and taxed, changes in available tax credits and deductions, the resolution of issues arising from tax audits, changes in United States generally accepted accounting principles, adjustments to income taxes upon finalization of tax returns, increases in expenses not deductible for tax purposes, changes in the valuation of our deferred tax assets and liabilities and in deferred tax valuation allowances, changing interpretation of existing laws or regulations, the impact of accounting for stock-based compensation and volatility in our stock price affecting the recognition of excess tax benefits and tax deficiencies within the income tax provision in the period in which they occur, the impact of accounting for business combinations, shifts in the amount of earnings in the United States compared with other regions in the world and overall levels of income before tax, changes in the domestic or international organization of our business and structure, as well as the expiration of statute of limitations and settlements of audits. For example, a decline in our stock price may result in reduced future tax benefits or in tax deficiencies from stock-based compensation. Any changes in our effective tax rate may impact net income.
ITEM 2. UNREGISTERED SALES OF EQUITY SECURITIES AND USE OF PROCEEDS
Issuer Purchases of Equity Securities
On May 23, 2022, our Board of Directors authorized us, subject to certain specifications,increased and extended our share repurchase program to repurchase sharesadditional common stock up to a total of $15 billion through December 2023.
Since the inception of our common stock. In November 2016, the Board authorized an additional $2.00 billion under ourshare repurchase program, and extended it through December 2020.
Through October 29, 2017, we have repurchased an aggregate of 251 million1.07 billion shares under our share repurchase program for a total cost of $5.50$12.42 billion since the inception of the program. All shares delivered from these repurchases have been placed into treasury stock.through July 31, 2022. As of October 29, 2017,July 31, 2022, we were authorized, subject to certain specifications, to repurchase additional shares of our common stock up to $1.82a total of $11.93 billion through December 2020.2023. We intendplan to return $1.25 billion to our shareholders in fiscal year 2018 through a combination ofcontinue share repurchases and cash dividends. Forthis fiscal year 2019, we also intend to return $1.25 billion to shareholders through ongoing quarterly cash dividends and share repurchases.
year.
The repurchases can be made in the open market, in privately negotiated transactions, pursuant to a Rule 10b5-1 trading plan or in structured share repurchase programs, and can be made in one or more larger repurchases, in compliance with Rule 10b-18 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, subject to market conditions, applicable legal requirements, and other factors. The program does not obligate NVIDIA to acquire any particular amount of common stock and the program may be suspended at any time at our discretion. As part
During the second quarter and first half of fiscal year 2023, we paid $100 million and $200 million in cash dividends to our share repurchase program, we have entered into, and we may continue to enter into, structured share repurchase transactions with financial institutions. These agreements generally require that we make an up-front payment in exchange for the right to receive a fixed number of shares of our common stock upon execution of the agreement, and a potential incremental number of shares of our common stock, within a pre-determined range, at the end of the term of the agreement.shareholders, respectively.
The following table presents details of our share repurchase transactions during the thirdsecond quarter of fiscal year 2018:2023:
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| Period | | Total Number of Shares Purchased (In millions) | | Average Price Paid per Share | | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program (In millions) | | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program (In billions) |
| July 31, 2017 - August 27, 2017 | | — | | $ | — |
| | — | | $ | 1.97 |
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| August 28, 2017 - September 24, 2017 | | 1 | | $ | 180.56 |
| | 1 | | $ | 1.82 |
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September 25, 2017 - October 29, 2017
| | — | | $ | — |
| | — | | $ | 1.82 |
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| Total | | 1 | | | | 1 | | |
Transactions Related to our Convertible Notes and Note Hedges
During the third quarter of fiscal year 2018, we issued an aggregate of 3 million shares of our common stock upon settlement of Convertible Notes submitted for conversion. In connection with these conversions, we exercised a portion of our Note Hedges to acquire shares of our common stock. The counterparty to the Note Hedges may be deemed an “affiliated purchaser” and may have purchased the shares of our common stock deliverable to us upon this exercise of our option.
During the fourth quarter of fiscal year 2018, we expect to settle at least an aggregate of $8 million in principal amount, and issue shares of our common stock for the excess conversion value, related to the Convertible Notes that were submitted for conversion. The actual number of shares issuable upon conversion will be determined based upon the terms of the Convertible Notes, and we expect to receive an equal number of shares of our common stock under the terms of the Note Hedges. Please refer to Note 11 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion regarding the Convertible Notes and the Note Hedges.
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| Period | | Total Number of Shares Purchased (In millions) | | Average Price Paid per Share | | Total Number of Shares Purchased as Part of Publicly Announced Program (In millions) | | Approximate Dollar Value of Shares that May Yet Be Purchased Under the Program (In billions) |
| May 2, 2022 - May 29, 2022 | | 3 | | | $ | 176.60 | | | 3 | | | $ | 14.78 | |
| May 30, 2022 - June 26, 2022 | | 16 | | | $ | 173.72 | | | 16 | | | $ | 11.93 | |
| June 27, 2022 - July 31, 2022 | | — | | | $ | — | | | — | | | $ | 11.93 | |
| Total | | 19 | | | | | 19 | | | |
Restricted Stock Unit Share Withholding
We also withhold common stock shares associated with net share settlements to cover tax withholding obligations upon the vesting of restricted stock unit awards under our employee equity incentive program. During the first nine monthssecond quarter of fiscal year 2018,2023, we withheld approximately 2 million shares at a total cost of $299 million through net share settlements. During the first half of fiscal year 2023, we withheld approximately 4 million shares at a total cost of $577$837 million through net share settlements. Please refer to Note 2 of the Notes to Condensed Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion regarding our equity incentive plans.
ITEM 6. EXHIBITS
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| 3.1 | | | | 8-K | | 000-23985 | | 3.1 | | 6/6/2022 |
| 10.1+ | | | | 8-K | | 000-23985 | | 10.1 | | 6/6/2022 |
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| 101.INS* | | Inline XBRL Instance Document - the instance document does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document. | | | | | | | | |
| 101.SCH* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document | | | | | | | | |
| 101.CAL* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document | | | | | | | | |
| 101.DEF* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Definition Linkbase Document | | | | | | | | |
| 101.LAB* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document | | | | | | | | |
| 101.PRE* | | Inline XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document | | | | | | | | |
| 104 | | Cover Page Interactive Data File - the cover page interactive data file does not appear in the Interactive Data File because its XBRL tags are embedded within the Inline XBRL document. | | | | | | | | |
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101.INS* | | XBRL Instance Document | | | | | | | | |
101.SCH* | | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Schema Document | | | | | | | | |
101.CAL* | | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Calculation Linkbase Document | | | | | | | | |
101.LAB* | | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Labels Linkbase Document | | | | | | | | |
101.PRE* | | XBRL Taxonomy Extension Presentation Linkbase Document | | | | | | | | |
+ Management contract or compensatory plan or arrangement.
* Filed herewith
herewith.
# In accordance with Item 601(b)(32)(ii) of Regulation S-K and SEC Release Nos. 33-8238 and 34-47986, Final Rule: Management's Reports on Internal Control Over Financial Reporting and Certification of Disclosure in Exchange Act Periodic Reports, the certifications furnished in Exhibits 32.1 and 32.2 hereto are deemed to accompany this Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q and will not be deemed “filed” for purpose of Section 18 of the Exchange Act. Such certifications will not be deemed to be incorporated by reference into any filing under the Securities Act or the Exchange Act, except to the extent that the registrant specifically incorporates it by reference.
Copies of above exhibits not contained herein are available to any shareholder upon written request to:
Investor Relations: NVIDIA Corporation, 2788 San Tomas Expressway, Santa Clara, CA 95051.
SIGNATURE
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned thereunto duly authorized.
Date: November 21, 2017
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| By: | /s/ Colette M. Kress | |
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| Colette M. Kress |
| Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer (Duly Authorized Officer and Principal Financial Officer) |
