Might 25 (Reuters) – Marvell Know-how Inc (MRVL.O) on Thursday forecast its synthetic intelligence (AI) income would double for the yr, changing into the second U.S. chip firm in as many days to wager on the breakthrough know-how.
Shares of Marvell rose 17.2% to $57.96 in prolonged buying and selling because the chipmaker additionally surpassed Wall Road targets for first-quarter income, a day after greater peer Nvidia (NVDA.O) introduced a quarterly income goal greater than 50% above market estimates.
“Generative AI is quickly driving new purposes and altering funding priorities for cloud clients,” Marvell CEO Matt Murphy stated in a post-earnings convention name.
OpenAI-owned chatbot ChatGPT’s speedy success has prompted tech giants resembling Alphabet Inc (GOOGL.O) and Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) to benefit from generative AI – which might have interaction in human-like dialog and craft all the pieces from jokes to poetry.
That has in flip boosted demand for the chips that energy AI know-how, benefiting corporations resembling Marvell.
Marvell’s AI income will no less than double once more subsequent yr and “and proceed to develop quickly within the coming years”, Murphy stated, with second-quarter cloud income anticipated to develop 10% sequentially.
The California-based agency additionally forecast second-quarter income of $1.33 billion, above analysts’ estimates of $1.31 billion, in accordance with Refinitiv knowledge.
Excluding gadgets, it reported income of $1.32 billion for the quarter ended April 29, beating expectations of $1.30 billion.
Reporting by Sourasis Bose in Bengaluru; Enhancing by Devika Syamnath
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