In Q2 Dell noticed an 80% year-over-year enhance in AI-optimized server income with a powerful backlog and pipeline
As enterprise construct out the infrastructure crucial for the AI period, Dell this week reported a beat-beat in Q2 towards robust demand for its AI-optimized server {hardware}. The quarter introduced AI server income of $3.1 billion, up 80% year-over-year, with greater than $6 billion shipped within the final 4 quarter. The corporate additional reported file AI server orders at $3.2 billion, up 23% quarter-over-quarter, and a backlog of $3.8 billion “with our pipeline being a number of multiples of our backlog.”
“Our AI momentum accelerated in Q2, and we’ve seen a rise within the variety of enterprise clients shopping for AI options every quarter,” COO Jeff Clarke stated in an announcement. “AI-optimized server demand was $3.2 billion, up 23% sequentially, and $5.8 billion yr so far. Backlog was $3.8 billion, and our pipeline has grown to a number of multiples of our backlog.”
Dell reported Q2 income of $25 billion, up 9% year-over-year with file income of $11.6 billion for the Infrastructure Options Group (ISG), which was up 38% year-over-year. The Consumer Options Group (CSG) was down 4% year-over-year to $12.4 billion; income on the industrial shopper facet was flat at $10.6 billion.
Working earnings was $1.3 billion within the quarter, up 15% year-over-year. Money movement from operations was $1.3 billion, and Dell returned $1 billion to shareholders by share repurchases and dividends. “In Q2 our mixed ISG and CSG income was $24.1 billion, up 12% year-over-year, positioning us properly for the second half of the yr and past,” CFO Yvonne McGill stated in an announcement. “Our momentum in ISG is a major tailwind.”
Full monetary particulars can be found right here. And right here’s a little bit of colour from Michael Dell at Dell Applied sciences World earlier this yr.
