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Nvidia CFO: Cryptocurrency is helping drive demand for graphics hardware

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Nvidia chief financial officer Colette Kress credited cryptocurrency mining as one of the new drivers for the company’s graphics chip sales.

Nvidia also saw revenues rise from demand related to gaming, artificial intelligence, the Nintendo Switch game console, and self-driving cars. But cryptocurrency is the sexy driver of the moment, as the popularity of Ethereum and other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies has created a spike in demand.

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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.