Nvidia data center sales grew 55% on demand for artificial intelligence chips

Kress said customers are using the chips for tasks such as understanding human speech and crunching data to offer customer recommendations. Gaming, Nvidia's biggest market, reported $3.2 billion in sales, up 42% from $2.27 billion in the same quarter last year. The company said it was primarily due to increased sales of its GeForce consumer graphics processors, but the company said supply remained limited. Nvidia's gaming graphics cards now have software that prevents them from being used for cryptocurrency mining, the company said. Nvidia introduced dedicated graphics cards for crypto mining earlier this year to help meet some of the demand.