Nvidia mentioned income in its fiscal first quarter, which ends in Could, is more likely to be greater than $5.3 billion, which was its earlier estimate for traders from February.

Analysts polled by Refinitiv beforehand anticipated that Nvidia would report $5.32 billion in gross sales within the quarter.

The sign a couple of sturdy quarter comes as demand for microchips, just like the merchandise that Nvidia sells, has been excessive world wide, resulting in brief provide and excessive aftermarket costs for fascinating chips, reminiscent of Nvidia’s most up-to-date line of graphics playing cards. Nvidia’s complete income in its fiscal fourth quarter was up 61%.

Nvidia mentioned that its chips may very well be arduous to search out via the top of the 12 months, however that it might nonetheless ship sufficient chips to proceed to report rising income.

“General demand stays very sturdy and continues to exceed provide whereas our channel inventories stay fairly lean,” Kress mentioned. “We count on demand to proceed to exceed provide for a lot of this 12 months.”

On Monday, Nvidia introduced a brand new server chip known as Grace, recent programs for working synthetic intelligence on servers, software program for working chatbots and speech recognition, and new merchandise for self-driving automobiles.

Nvidia additionally mentioned that its line of chips for industrial cryptocurrency miners would report as a lot as $150 million in income within the fiscal first quarter, up from a earlier estimate of $50 million.

Correction: Nvidia’s complete income in its fiscal fourth quarter was up 61%. An earlier model misstated the time interval.