Welcome to the Tech Meme Right Home for Thursday, August 24th,

2023. I'm Brian McCullough today.

Invidia gives new meeting to the words earnings beat.

Meta announces code llama, Tic-Toc might

start banning links to Amazon. Spacex wants Starlink to be viable in cities too and

turning thoughts into speech via an AI interface becomes real.

Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Well as people were anticipating, and Vidia had an earnings call for the ages yesterday

reporting Q2 revenue up 101% year over year to $13.51 billion versus the estimated revenue number was $11.22 billion, so that's quite the beat.

Also, data center revenue was up 171% year over year to 10.32 billion dollars.

Let me pause for a second and underline that.

We've spoken about the data center business and how that was a growth area for

NVIDIA. Also how in this new AI era, it's kind of all cloud. You don't tend to run, you know, an

LLLM locally, but in the cloud via say chat gpets

APIs anyway data center revenue grew 171% year over year but that hides the

really impressive number which is that

NVIDIA grew data center sales 141% quarter over quarter which is to say

two quarters ago data center sales were 4.3 billion dollars.

Last quarter they were 10.3 billion dollars.

They grew that much in three months.

Something, something everyone's trying to buy their chips to deploy

LLLMs. Quoting CMBC with more superlatives, remember they just reported

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