NVIDIA ends 2012 at $4 billion on record sales for professional GPUs
NVIDIA announces Q4 and annual results with a record year for professional GPUs. Professional GPUs hit a record last year and the company expects Quadro and Tesla sales to reach another record in the coming year.
NVIDIA did beat the market expectations, however, results were lower than previously planned due to the shortages of hard-drives caused partly by flooding in Thailand. Financially, this was an issue for NVIDIA in their consumer graphics product line, but not in their professional GPU division.
Professional graphics growth in FY2013 are expected to be 12-15%, and to finish with another record year. Maximus is a new platform technology allowing workstations to use both Quadro and Tesla simultaneously. The result is a workstation with the ability to use a Tesla GPU for computing and a Quadro for visualization. This capability potentially changes the workflow by allowing the Tesla GPU to calculate a simulation, eg : airflow over a vehicle while the Quadro GPU simultaneously powers the visualization. This is clearly a benefit for you as a professional user, and also a benefit for NVIDIA who can now sell multiple GPUs inside a single workstation.
The ingredients which create a Maximus workstation include a Quadro GPU, a Tesla GPU, a software layer to unify and manage the GPU tasks, and a certification process with software vendors (ISVs). You can be certain that you will hear more and more about Maximus systems as 2012 progresses.
But the fact that NVIDIA's professional graphics business had a record year is an indicator about how design, engineering, and architecture markets are doing. When you, as CAD professionals, are investing as a group, then you as a group are also doing better.
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