Nvidia reports Q3 revenue down 17% YoY to $5.93B, vs. $5.77B est., including Data Center revenue up 31% YoY to $3.83B and Gaming revenue down 51% YoY to $1.57B (Kif Leswing/CNBC)

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Block Q3: revenue up 17% YoY to $4.52B, vs. $4.49B est., gross profit up 38% YoY to $1.57B, vs. $1.53B est., and Cash App gross profit up 51% YoY; stock up 12%+  —  – Block stock rose in extended trading after the payments company reported third-quarter earnings that beat Wall Street expectations for profit.

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Apple Q4: iPhone revenue up 9.67% YoY to $42.63B, Mac up 25.3% to $11.51B, iPad down 13.06% to $7.17B, Other Products up 9.8% to $9.65B, and Services up 4.98%  —  – Apple reported fiscal fourth-quarter earnings on Thursday that beat Wall Street expectations on revenue and earnings per share.

Dean Takahashi / VentureBeat:
Activision Blizzard reports Q3 net bookings down 3% YoY to $1.83B vs. $1.7B est., and MAUs down 6% YoY to 368M; Modern Warfare II made $1B+ in its first 10 days  —  Activision Blizzard reported that its bookings for the third quarter ended September 30 fell 3% to $1.83 billion compared to a year ago.

Takashi Mochizuki / Bloomberg:
Nintendo reports Q2 operating profit of ~$809M, up from ~$685M YoY, and cuts its fiscal year Switch sales forecast by 10% to 19M; a weakened yen boosts results  —  Nintendo Co. cut its fiscal-year forecast for Switch console sales by 10% to 19 million after reporting earnings in line with expectations.

Kif Leswing / CNBC:
Nvidia says the US agreed to let it continue developing its H100 enterprise AI chip in China; Nvidia stock is down 11%+ after warning about export restrictions  —  – Nvidia said on Thursday that the U.S. Government told the company it can continue to develop its H100 artificial intelligence chip in China.

Reuters:
TSMC reports Q4 revenue up 26.7% YoY to $19.93B and net income up 78% YoY to $9.72B, beating estimates of ~$9.5B, even as the chip industry downturn continues  —  Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC (2330.TW) reported a forecast-beating 78% rise in quarterly profit on Thursday, as strong sales …