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Nvidia CEO credits smooth Pascal launch for strong second-quarter profits

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive of graphics chip maker Nvidia, said in an interview and an analyst call that the company’s reported second-quarter earnings benefited from a smooth launch of the Pascal-based graphics chips.

The company was able to beat Wall Street’s expectations by a handy margin in part because it was able to launch four different graphics chips based on the Pascal architecture — without a hiccup.

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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.