Segment Information

12 Months Ended

Jan. 29, 2012

Notes to financial statements [Abstract]

Segment Information

Segment Information

Our Chief Executive Officer, who is considered to be our chief operating decision maker, or CODM, reviews financial information presented on an operating segment basis for purposes of making operating decisions and assessing financial performance. We have three primary financial reporting segments - GPU Business, PSB, and CPB.  

Reporting Segments		Primary Revenue Sources
GPU	ž	GeForce discrete graphics and chipset products and notebook PCs
	ž	Licensing fees from Intel Corporation
	ž	Memory products
PSB	ž	Quadro professional workstation products
	ž	Tesla high-performance computing products
CPB	ž	Tegra mobile products
	ž	Icera baseband processors and RF transceivers for mobile connectivity
	ž	Royalty license fees and other revenue related to video game consoles
	ž	GPU and Tegra products in embedded products and automobiles

The “All Other” category includes non-recurring charges and benefits that we do not allocate to our operating segments as these items are not included in the segment operating performance measures evaluated by our CODM.  During the year ended January 30, 2011, we entered into a six-year cross licensing agreement with Intel and also mutually agreed to settle all outstanding legal disputes.  For accounting purposes, the fair valued benefit prescribed to the settlement portion was $57.0 million and was considered a non-recurring benefit for the fiscal year 2011.  Please refer to Note 4 of these Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion regarding the patent cross license agreement with Intel.  Non-recurring charges related to our cash tender offer to purchase certain employee stock options were $140.2 million for the year ended January 31, 2010.  Please refer to Note 2 of these Notes to the Consolidated Financial Statements for further discussion regarding the cash tender offer.

Our CODM does not review any information regarding total assets on an operating segment basis. Operating segments do not record intersegment revenue, and, accordingly, there is none to be reported. The accounting policies for segment reporting are the same as for NVIDIA as a whole.

	GPU			PSB		CPB			All Other			Consolidated
	(In thousands)
Year Ended January 29, 2012:
Revenue	$	2,542,430		$	864,334	$	591,166		$	—		$	3,997,930
Depreciation and amortization expense	$	118,644		$	22,564	$	62,997		$	—		$	204,205
Operating income (loss)	$	528,242		$	327,970	$	(207,913	)	$	—		$	648,299
Year Ended January 30, 2011:
Revenue	$	2,527,144		$	818,552	$	197,613		$	—		$	3,543,309
Depreciation and amortization expense	$	126,536		$	26,711	$	33,742		$	—		$	186,989
Operating income (loss)	$	30,154		$	321,944	$	(153,351	)	$	57,000		$	255,747
Year Ended January 31, 2010:
Revenue	$	2,660,176		$	510,223	$	156,046		$	—		$	3,326,445
Depreciation and amortization expense	$	139,298		$	28,443	$	28,923		$	—		$	196,664
Operating income (loss)	$	(13,487	)	$	148,953	$	(94,170	)	$	(140,241	)	$	(98,945	)

Revenue by geographic region is allocated to individual countries based on the location to which the products are initially billed even if our customers’ revenue is attributable to end customers that are located in a different location. The following tables summarize information pertaining to our revenue from customers based on invoicing address in different geographic regions: 

	Year Ended
	January 29, 2012		January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Revenue:	(In thousands)
China	$	941,811	$	1,223,199	$	1,304,196
Taiwan	1,137,175		936,797		883,137
Other Asia Pacific	730,975		519,473		406,286
Europe	296,591		261,421		203,760
United States	596,264		297,265		248,793
Other Americas	295,114		305,154		280,273
Total revenue	$	3,997,930	$	3,543,309	$	3,326,445

The following table presents summarized information for long-lived assets by geographic region. Long lived assets consist of property and equipment and deposits and other assets and exclude goodwill and intangible assets.

	January 29, 2012		January 30, 2011
Long-lived assets:	(In thousands)
United States	$	563,699	$	529,797
Taiwan	40,199		56,202
China	27,360		32,500
India	30,598		31,454
Europe	17,737		4,541
Other Asia Pacific	811		787
Total long-lived assets	$	680,404	$	655,281

Revenue from significant customers, those representing 10% or more of total revenue for the respective dates, is summarized as follows:

	Year Ended
	January 29, 2012		January 30, 2011		January 31, 2010
Revenue:
Customer A	11	%	—		—
Customer B	—		12	%	12	%

Accounts receivable from significant customers, those representing 10% or more of total accounts receivable for the respective periods, is summarized as follows: 

	January 29, 2012		January 30, 2011
Accounts Receivable:
Customer A	20	%	11	%