Nvidia has been open about its financial results for the last quarter of 2009, with its CEO discussing both the company’s financial situation and its current hardware in some detail.

Nvidia's Tegra should see it very well looked after

According to TomsHardware, Nvidia hasn’t been slowed down as much as many might have expected by the fact that it doesn’t yet offer a DirectX 11 capable graphics card. Indeed, the company has seen revenue from its line of desktop-targeted GPUs bumped up by 19%, while it’s revenue on notebook GPUs has risen 27% (perhaps unsurprisingly, given the success of Nvidia’s mobile GPUs in netbooks) and, finally, Quadro-based revenue was up 25%.

All in all, it’s not been a bad quarter for a company that many would argue shouldn’t be performing quite as well as it is, considering the sheer value for money offered by some of ATI’s current cards.

Nvidia’s CEO was fairly optimistic about the situation for the coming quarter, though clearly a bit blustery, saying that,

“While the yield of chips made using the latest 40nm process has improved significantly, demand continues to exceed our constrained supply. Looking ahead this year, we are excited to raise the bar again with our next-generation Fermi GPU architecture; our Tegra mobile processor will enable a new class of amazing mobile devices like tablets; and our 3D Vision glasses and accompanying technology will bring a whole new dimension to personal computing.”

Of course, given the rumours surrounding Tegra 2 that could well be one of the most interesting things coming out of Nvidia in the next while. Already we’ve heard that Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 could have Tegra as a hardware requirement, while Nintendo’s now heavily rumoured successor to its phenomenally successful DS handheld is said to boast the mobile GPU.