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When Nvidia (NVDA) reports its second quarter earnings on Aug. 27, investors will focus squarely on the company’s data center results. After all, that’s where the chip giant realizes revenue on the sale of its high-powered AI processors.

But the Data Center segment includes more than just chip sales. It also accounts for some of Nvidia’s most important, though often overlooked, offerings: its networking technologies.

Composed of its NVLink, InfiniBand, and Ethernet solutions, Nvidia’s networking products are what allow its chips to communicate with each other, let servers talk to each other inside massive data centers, and ultimately ensure end users can connect to it all to run AI applications.

“The most important part in building a supercomputer is the infrastructure. The most important part is how you connect those computing engines together to form that larger unit of computing,” explained Gilad Shainer, senior vice president of networking at Nvidia.

PARIS, FRANCE - JUNE 11: Co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., Jensen Huang attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles on June 11, 2025, in Paris. VivaTech, Europe's largest tech trade show, offers a unique digital format for four days of reconnection and recovery through innovation. The event brings together startups, CEOs, investors, technology leaders, and all the digital transformation players shaping the future of the internet. Founded in 2016 by Publicis Groupe and Groupe Les Echos, this annual technology conference, also known as VivaTech, is dedicated to promoting innovation and startups.. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the 9th edition of the VivaTech trade show at the Parc des Expositions de la Porte de Versailles on June 11, 2025, in Paris. (Photo by Chesnot/Getty Images) · Chesnot via Getty Images

That also translates into some big sales. Nvidia’s networking sales accounted for $12.9 billion of its $115.1 billion in data center revenue in its prior fiscal year. That might not seem impressive when you consider that chip sales brought in $102.1 billion, but it eclipses the $11.3 billion that Nvidia’s second-largest segment, Gaming, took in for the year.

In Q1, networking made up $4.9 billion of Nvidia’s $39.1 billion in data center revenue. And it’ll continue to grow as customers continue to build out their AI capacity, whether that’s at research universities or massive data centers.

“It is the most underappreciated part of Nvidia’s business, by orders of magnitude,” Deepwater Asset Management managing partner Gene Munster told Yahoo Finance. “Basically, networking doesn’t get the attention because it’s 11% of revenue. But it’s growing like a rocket ship.”

When it comes to the AI explosion, Nvidia senior vice president of networking Kevin Deierling says the company has to work across three different types of networks. The first is its NVLink technology, which connects GPUs to each other within a server or multiple servers inside of a tall, cabinet-like server rack, allowing them to communicate and boost overall performance.

Then there’s InfiniBand, which connects multiple server nodes across data centers to form what is essentially a massive AI computer. Then there’s the front-end network for storage and system management, which uses Ethernet connectivity.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents a Grace Blackwell NVLink72 as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. Gadgets, robots and vehicles imbued with artificial intelligence will once again vie for attention at the Consumer Electronics Show, as vendors behind the scenes will seek ways to deal with tariffs threatened by US President-elect Donald Trump. The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) opens formally in Las Vegas on January 7, 2025, but preceding days are packed with product announcements. (Photo by Patrick T. Fallon / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang presents a Grace Blackwell NVLink72 as he delivers a keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada on January 6, 2025. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images) · PATRICK T. FALLON via Getty Images

“Those three networks are all required to build a giant AI-scale, or even a moderately sized enterprise-scale, AI computer,” Deierling explained.

The purpose of all of these various connections isn’t just to help chips and servers communicate, though. They’re also meant to allow them to do so as fast as possible. If you’re trying to run a series of servers as a single unit of computing, they need to talk to each other in the blink of an eye.

A lack of data going to GPUs slows the entire operation, delaying other processes and impacting the overall efficiency of an entire data center.

“[Nvidia is a] very different business without networking,” Munster explained. “The output that the people who are buying all the Nvidia chips [are] desiring wouldn’t happen if it wasn’t for their networking. “

And as companies continue to develop larger AI models and autonomous and semi-autonomous agentic AI capabilities that can perform tasks for users, making sure those GPUs work in lockstep with each other becomes increasingly important.

That’s especially true as inferencing — running AI models — requires more powerful data center systems.

The AI industry is in the midst of a broad reordering around the idea of inferencing. At the onset of the AI explosion, the thinking was that training AI models would require hugely powerful AI computers and that actually running them would be somewhat less power-intensive.

That led to some trepidation on Wall Street earlier this year, when DeepSeek claimed that it trained its AI models on below top-of-the-line Nvidia chips. The thinking at the time was that if companies could train and run their AI models on underpowered chips, then there was no need for Nvidia’s pricey high-powered systems.

But that narrative quickly flipped as chip companies pointed out that those same AI models benefit from running on powerful AI computers, allowing them to reason over more information more quickly than they would while running on less-advanced systems.

“I think there’s still a misperception that inferencing is trivial and easy,” Deierling said.

“It turns out that it’s starting to look more and more like training as we get to [an] agentic workflow. So all of these networks are important. Having them together, tightly coupled to the CPU, the GPU, and the DPU [data processing unit], all of that is vitally important to make inferencing a good experience.”

Nvidia’s rivals are, however, circling. AMD is looking to grab more market share from the company, and cloud giants like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft continue to develop their own AI chips.

Industry groups also have their own competing networking technologies including UALink, which is meant to go head-to-head with NVLink, explained Forrester analyst Alvin Nguyen.

But for now, Nvidia continues to lead the pack. And as tech giants, researchers, and enterprises continue to battle over Nvidia’s chips, the company’s networking business is all but guaranteed to keep growing as well.

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