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Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios, Podcasts, Radio News.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to the Daybreak Asia podcast. I'm Doug Krisner. We

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Speaker 2: begin with the results from the world's most valuable publicly

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Speaker 2: traded company after the bell in. Vidio posted third quarter

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Speaker 2: numbers above estimates, and the company gave a strong forecast

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Speaker 2: for revenue in the current period. Sales are expected to

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Speaker 2: be about sixty five billion dollars and gross margins are

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Speaker 2: expected to reach the mid seventy percent range. So this

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Speaker 2: outlook signals demand does remain strong for Invidia's artificial intelligence accelerators.

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Speaker 2: We took a deeper dive into the Nvidia story with

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Speaker 2: CEO Jensen Wong. He spoke with Bloomberg's Ed Ludlow.

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Speaker 3: Jensen, It's been an astonishingly busy day for you in Washington, DC,

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Speaker 3: so I'm grateful for your time. You're sold out of Blackwell,

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Speaker 3: that's what you said, and also that five hundred billion

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Speaker 3: dollar forecast, which is Blackwell Rubin has room to grow.

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Speaker 3: How do those fit together?

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Speaker 4: I said, Sales are off the charts for Blackwell and

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Speaker 4: Nvidia GPUs in the cloud are sold out. We got

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Speaker 4: plenty of Blackwells to sell you. We have lots of

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Speaker 4: Blackwells coming. We're making a lot of Blackwells, and we

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Speaker 4: have a bunch of Vera Rubens coming, and so business

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Speaker 4: is very very strong. But we've planned our supply chain

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Speaker 4: incredibly well. We have the largest supply chain in the world.

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Speaker 4: Our partners TSMC, our memory partners, sk Heinex, Micron, Samsung

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Speaker 4: are doing a fantastic job supporting us. And all of

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Speaker 4: our systems partners, fox Con and Quantum and Wistron are

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Speaker 4: packaging partners. Everybody's doing a fantastic job supporting us. And

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Speaker 4: we've done a good job planning for a very very

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Speaker 4: strong year, and we've done a good job planning for

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Speaker 4: Vera Rubin. So sales are off the charts and video

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Speaker 4: GPUs and the cloud is sold out, but we've got

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Speaker 4: a bunch of Blackwells to sell.

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Speaker 3: Jensen, what's the road ahead for Vera Rubin. It's one

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Speaker 3: of the most common questions we get for you of

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Speaker 3: how that ramp will go relative to what we saw

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Speaker 3: with the Blackwell generations.

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Speaker 4: Well, the silicon for Vera Rubin, seven different chips are

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Speaker 4: back in our labs and the bring up is happening

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Speaker 4: across engineering teams. Probably a couple of twenty thousand people

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Speaker 4: are working on bringing up Vera Rubin from silicon to systems,

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Speaker 4: the software to algorithms. People are working around the clock

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Speaker 4: and this bring up is going beautifully. We're on track

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Speaker 4: to deliver Vera Rubin about Q three timeframe of next year,

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Speaker 4: continuing our once a year cycle. Vera Ruben is already

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Speaker 4: assured a huge success. Everybody's incredibly excited about it. Can't

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Speaker 4: wait to show everybody. And then one last thing is

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Speaker 4: that the rack architecture, the rack scale architecture is completely revolutionary.

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Speaker 4: It includes a scale up switch called the mvy Link

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Speaker 4: envy Link seventy two. Our fifth generation is the only

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Speaker 4: one of its kind in the world. This rack architecture,

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Speaker 4: which is incredibly complex, started with Grace Blackwell, then Grace

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Speaker 4: Blackwell Ultra. It is transitioned to Grace Blackwell Ultra is

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Speaker 4: incredibly seamless. The same rack scale architecture is going to

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Speaker 4: be used for Vera Rubin, and so the supply chain

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Speaker 4: is all used to it. This complexity that we enjoyed

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Speaker 3: Jensen I tried to go through what the CFO COLLECT

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Speaker 3: going forward in video, seems committed to working with both

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Speaker 3: the current state of play for China.

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Speaker 4: The most important thing she said is that we've said

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Speaker 4: All of our forecasts guidance that we showed zero, we

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Speaker 4: She also said that effectively, China's a very important market

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Speaker 4: to us. It's very important to the United States, it's

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Speaker 4: The Chinese market is very large. This year, my guess

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Speaker 4: It would be fantastic if we're able to participate in

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Speaker 3: During the call, the US Commerce Department issued a statement

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Speaker 3: saying that you are now permitted to export up to

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Speaker 3: thirty five thousand Blackwell chips each to both saudiast Humane

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Speaker 3: the Middle East. What can you tell us about your

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Speaker 4: Element has been around for a long time is to

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Speaker 4: prevent diversion. Of course, over the years, people have speculated

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Speaker 4: about diversion. We've chased down every single concern, and we've

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Speaker 4: repeatedly tested and sampled data centers around the world and

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Speaker 4: found no diversion. And so this is an area that

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Speaker 4: will continue to be rigorous on. And there's a lot

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Speaker 4: of different ways to comply, and one of them, of course,

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Speaker 4: way is just to make sure that we have measures

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Speaker 3: Jensen, The number one question I get for you is

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Speaker 3: always about energy. How severe is the energy shortage in

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Speaker 3: the context of AI expansion, and would you talk a

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Speaker 3: bit about power and whether power is a bigger constraint

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Speaker 4: When you're growing at the rate and scale of Nvidia,

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Speaker 4: Remember we're growing some sixty percent a year just quarter

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Speaker 4: reason why Nvidia has to be world class at our

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Speaker 4: but also working downstream to work with energy providers, power

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Speaker 4: fact ed that Nvidia's architecture literally runs every model and today,

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Speaker 4: yesterday we announced a big news with Nentropic and so

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Speaker 3: Jensen, we can see where the hyperscale is are getting

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Speaker 3: But you mentioned Anthropic. With Anthropic or indeed open Ai,

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Speaker 4: Well, we're thoughtful along with open Ai, thoughtful in aligning

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Speaker 3: Jensen investors have been worrying about depreciation. Software can actually

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Speaker 4: And Vidious architect and vidiot is unlike any other accelerator,

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Speaker 4: Nvidia could be used across the entire lifespan of the technology.

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Speaker 2: Doug Prisoner. On Wednesday, President Trump renewed his attacks against

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Speaker 2: line from Atlanta, Georgia. Thank you, sir for making time

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Speaker 2: to chat with me. So I'm looking at the swaps

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Speaker 5: Yes, we do. We feel that the press conference right

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Speaker 2: We also heard today from Kevin Hassett to the Director

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Speaker 5: Yeah, we have continued to believe that, you know, core

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so there are significant opportunities, especially with recent and

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Speaker 5: Yeah, so we're continuing to watch obviously the moves impact

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Speaker 5: We definitely think of vests should be thinking globally right now.

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