Nvidia Corp. Chief Executive Jensen Huang summed up the chip maker’s view of cryptocurrencies in a single phrase Thursday: “rock ’n’ roll.”
That’s how Huang described his company’s ability to ride out what he sees as a blossoming market for his company’s graphics cards in mining the digital currency.
“Crypto is here to stay, and the market will grow to be quite large,” Huang said Thursday on the company’s second-quarter call with analysts. “It’s not likely to go away any time soon. There will be more currencies to come, they will come from different nations…We stay very close to the market, and understand the dynamics very well.”
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Nvidia NVDA, -6.71% detailed quarterly results Thursday that beat expectations handily for sales and earnings, but the stock plunged more than 6.5% in after-hours trading following an already punishing day during the regular session. The company’s shares are still up more than 50% this year, against the S&P 500 index’s SPX, -1.45% gains of 8.9%, as investors bet on Nvidia’s artificial-intelligence efforts to pay off in server and autonomous-driving sales.
