# NVIDIA changes the Blackwell GPU mask to improve production yield; volume ramp moves to the fourth fiscal quarter

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Date: 28 Aug 2024
About: [NVIDIA](https://technooptimist.io/companies/nvidia.md) · [Blackwell](https://technooptimist.io/computing/blackwell.md)
Original source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1045810/000104581024000262/q2fy25cfocommentary.htm

In its quarterly CFO commentary, NVIDIA said it had changed the Blackwell GPU mask, the stencil used to print the chip, to improve production yield. The Blackwell ramp was scheduled to begin in its fourth fiscal quarter, with several billion dollars of Blackwell revenue expected that quarter.

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