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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, podcasts, radio news.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk in video and video shares did shed more

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Speaker 2: Bloomberg Technology co host ed Ludlow, who joins us from

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Speaker 2: our San Francisco bureau, ed the most important numbers you're

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Speaker 2: watching in just a few minutes. When these earnings cross,

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Speaker 2: what are they?

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Speaker 3: I mean, all of them.

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Speaker 4: It's probably the most important earnings report in my career,

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Speaker 4: which is not quite as long as both of yours.

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Speaker 4: But you go straight to the data center business, and

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Speaker 4: not necessarily for the quarter gone. We have a good

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Speaker 4: sense of how that will go. Will probably be twenty

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Speaker 4: five billion dollars of data center revenue. You have to

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Speaker 4: go straight to the outlook or the guide for the

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Speaker 4: fiscal third quarter because that answers the only question we have,

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Speaker 4: which is what is the staying power of this AI

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Speaker 4: investment cycle?

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Speaker 1: And you know the thing is, I think about the expectations,

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Speaker 1: how high they are ed, and we've seen the stock,

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Speaker 4: Well, let's take the third quarter fiscal third quarter guide example.

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Speaker 4: You know, the average analyst estimate is thirty one point

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Speaker 4: you're talking thirty eight thirty nine billion dollars. There are

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Speaker 4: some on the street who have very high expectations. I've

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Speaker 4: learned from people like you at Bloomberg over the years.

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Speaker 4: One market session a market does not make. This is

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Speaker 4: a stock up one hundred and fifty percent year to date,

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Speaker 2: Think, yeah, speaking attention, about thirty seconds away from when

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Speaker 1: Doc is up one point six percent here ahead of

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Speaker 1: the earnings. So we're just waiting for Nvidia to cross.

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Speaker 1: So we're seeing some trade ahead of the results, actually crossing,

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Speaker 1: some optimistic trading, if you will. As we said, the stock,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm gonna let Ed Ludlow take a look at

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Speaker 2: his Bloomberg terminal, as we do expect these numbers to take.

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Speaker 1: Second quarter revenue folks, thirty billion dollars estimate was twenty

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Speaker 1: eight point eighty six billion, So again that is a beat.

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Speaker 1: Company approving an additional fifty billion dollars in share buyback. Again,

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the company c's third quarter revenue at thirty two

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Speaker 1: of Bloomberg Technology, and you said the numbers, you're watching

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Speaker 4: I mean, I've got the ticker for after I was

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Speaker 4: Thirty two point five billion dollars plus all minus two

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Speaker 4: An impressive beat, I suppose on data center revenue in

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Speaker 4: love it when there's consistency, when something that we were

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Speaker 4: And I think that fifty billion dollars of edition will

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Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, we had a we were talking earlier

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Speaker 2: expectations were so high, you might not see a huge reaction, Carol, Right,

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Speaker 1: Yeah, just up about one percent. Hey, dig it into

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Speaker 1: demand remains strong and the anticipation for a blackwell is incredible.

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Speaker 4: The reporting was that due to the complexity of its design,

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Speaker 4: again this is classic Jensen Wang that everything is intact,

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Speaker 4: So this is why we go straight to the guide

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Speaker 2: Meaning that expectations are just so high for this company.

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Speaker 4: Okay, guys, I'm really sorry to go on attendent. These

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Speaker 4: Vidia's confirming is that they will book really really significant

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Speaker 4: its fiscal fourth quarter. But they do make a concession

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Speaker 2: Is several billion dollars not sufficient?

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Speaker 1: Ed, what is several billion dollars?

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Speaker 1: was kind of going in Kunjan, Thank you so much.

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Speaker 1: Look forward to reading your research that'll come out a

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Speaker 1: little bit later and into tomorrow. Bloomberg Intelligence senior semiconductor

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Speaker 1: analysts kujoh and Sabani on those Nvidia earnings