Nvidia is growing in gaming, cars, data centers, and the cloud — but not mobile Tegra chips

PC graphics chip maker Nvidia is expanding rapidly in visual computing chips for data centers, PC gaming, automobiles, and cloud gaming. But it isn’t doing so hot in mobile devices.

The company reiterated those points today in a conference call with analysts after Nvidia reported better-than-expected earnings and revenues in the fourth fiscal quarter ended Jan. 25. Nvidia accomplished that even though its Tegra mobile processors are no longer growing in the core market of smartphones and tablets.

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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.