Jensen Huang interview: Why Nvidia believes 2019 will be a big year for laptop gaming

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 16, 2019
Updated June 20, 2025
4 min

Nvidia had a tough fourth quarter in 2018, but Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is optimistic that growth will return to his business in 2019. He believes he has a great opportunity to grow PC laptop gaming thanks to the launch of mid-range Nvidia GeForce RTX 2060 graphics cards.

In the previous quarter ended January 27, Nvidia was hamstrung. It couldn’t launch its new 2060 cards because the market was stuffed with excess inventory, since cryptocurrency miners stopped buying graphics cards after the collapse of the crypto bubble. But now Huang said the company has worked off that inventory.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.