In earnings news, Nvidia (NVDA) is off pre-market after the company issued guidance below Street expectations.
Last month, Citigroup turned cautious on Nvidia (NVDA) shares, specifically citing worries about the tablet market.
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In pre-market trading, NVDA has jumped more than 4%, with traders reacting to stronger-than-expected third-quarter earnings.
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From a technical stand point, NVDA has its work cut out for it.
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Marvell and NVIDIA both have heavy PC exposure and downside EPS risk, with NVDA shares having held up relatively well lately.
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It sports both Firewire, USB 2.0 ports and a Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) GeForce 4 graphics card.
The shares of NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA) are poised to shine as brightly as the graphics produced by their core processing chips this morning.
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Nvidia ( NVDA - news - people ), the Santa Clara, Calif. company that is the world's largest maker of graphics-processing units, or GPUs.
And Citigroup recently reduced its rating on Nvidia (NVDA) shares based on the potential for an over-supply of tablets and related chips later this year.
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Nvidia (NVDA) is expected to report poor second quarter earnings on Thursday, August 9, 2012 with analysts expecting a 42.3% drop in earnings from a year ago.
The deal also puts pressure on rival chipmaker Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ), whose chipset business is heavily concentrated on AMD's chips.
Nvidia (NVDA) shares are trading lower after ThinkEquity analyst Krishna Shankar warned this morning that the company is likely to be hurt by slowing consumer PC demand.
Companies such as Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) struggled, at first, to produce software drivers that worked smoothly with Vista, Reeves says.
But its graphics components are specially made graphics chips from Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ), not the usual graphics chips you'll find in a PC.
We would use this pullback to buy NVDA shares.
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However, NVDA still has several hurdles still looming overhead.
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Ellis also notes that Intel (INTC) has been gaining ground in processor design wins, as has Freescale, while asserting that Nvidia (NVDA) and Texas Instruments (TXN) have lost some ground.
This morning, as I noted in an earlier post, Citigroup downgraded shares of Nvidia (NVDA), at least in part in anticipation that expectations for 2011 tablet unit sales are at risk of over-estimating demand.
Thursday, Citigroup analyst Glen Yeung cut his rating on shares of Nvidia (NVDA), a prominent supplier of microprocessors for tablets, in part because he thinks expectations for tablet computers have gotten out of hand.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, NVDA makes up 4.26% of the iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund ETF ( NASD: SOXX )which is trading up by about 0.5% on the day Friday.
According to the ETF Finder at ETF Channel, NVDA makes up 4.03% of the iShares PHLX SOX Semiconductor Sector Index Fund ETF ( NASD: SOXX )which is trading higher by about 2.2% on the day Wednesday.
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Inside the machine there's a Motorola (nyse: MOT - news - people )-made 1-gigahertz PowerPC processor, an Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) GeForce4 440 Go graphics processor and a 60-gigabyte hard drive.
And while Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) has had the upper hand in the graphics market over the past year, AMD (nyse: AMD - news - people ) hopes to recapture lost ground for its ATI graphics business, which it acquired in 2006.
That's the quick and not entirely complete explanation for why Nvidia (nasdaq: NVDA - news - people ) moved last Sunday to counter Intel 's (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) foray into processors for mobile devices with an expanded low-power processor line of its own, dubbed Tegra.
While these updates are common for tablet upgrades, The Verge reports that the new device will also include a Tegra 3 Processor from NVIDIA (NASDAQ: NVDA), support Android 4.0 or a more recent iteration, come with a wide arrange of storage options (16GB, 32GB, or 64GB), contain 3G connectivity and offer 10 hours of Wi-Fi battery life.
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