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The demand for chips to power artificial-intelligence services from the likes of Meta and Microsoft helped boost Nvidia’s revenues to $26bn in the latest quarter, a 262% increase, year on year. Net profit soared by 628% to $14.9bn. The company promises more to come. It will soon start to ship its new Blackwell chips, which cost more than $30,000 each.

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