Microsoft is not the only company that has been hurt by Windows RT. Today, NVIDIA released its second quarter financial report, which showed a 6.4% year-over-year decrease in revenue and a 19.0% drop in net profit. Part of this decline was attributed to poor sales of the Surface RT.
NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang stated: "The performance of certain platforms did not meet our expectations or those of the entire industry." Although he did not explicitly mention that this platform was the Windows RT operating system, it should be clear to everyone. He also said that NVIDIA's financial status for the second quarter was very disappointing, and he even indicated that there would not be a significant improvement in the short term.
Microsoft's Surface RT tablet uses NVIDIA's Tegra 3 processor and has been on the market for about a year. Initially, NVIDIA highly praised Microsoft's industrial design for this tablet but later expressed disappointment with its performance and compatibility. At the time, Jen-Hsun Huang believed that this Windows product, which replaced traditional x86 chips with ARM processors, would lead the future. However, it now appears that his expectations for Windows RT were clearly too high.
Despite this, Jen-Hsun Huang remains confident in Windows products based on ARM processors because NVIDIA has just confirmed that it will continue to collaborate with Microsoft to develop the second generation of Surface. Clearly, NVIDIA will be more cautious this time around in its collaboration with Microsoft, but both parties have the same goal: to achieve good sales performance for their products.
Moreover, although NVIDIA's previous cooperation with Microsoft did not yield good results, from a long-term perspective, the addition of the Windows RT operating system has balanced NVIDIA's Tegra series processors' excessive dependence on the Android system, which is crucial for NVIDIA.