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An important anniversary is right around the corner: Just about two years ago,Nvidia(NVDA1.00%)completed a major stock split, bringing its shares down from more than $1,000 to about $100. Since that time, the world's most-watched artificial intelligence (AI) company has seen its shares advance 75% -- and they now trade for about $215.What's pushed the stock along this path? Investors remain eager
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At a recent rally in New York, President Donald Trump spoke warmly about memory-chip maker Micron Technology (
MU
+5.07%
). He referenced the company's ambitious plans to invest an estimated $200 billion into expanding its domestic chip fabrication capacities over the next several years.
More broadly, Trump's remarks reflected his enthusiasm for onshoring U.S. manufacturing. I think this raises a
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Long known for mobile brick phones and traditional telecom infrastructure, Nokia (
NOK
2.88%
) is quietly in the middle of an exciting transformation. Back in October, Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) made a $1 billion strategic investment in Nokia, marking a major turning point as the telecom provider pushed into artificial intelligence (AI).
Since Nvidia's investment, Nokia's stock has climbed from roughl
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COMPUTEX 2026 is set to run from Tuesday, June 2, to Friday, June 5, local time at the Taipei Nangang Exhibition Center in Taipei, Taiwan. (The dates generally correspond to June 1 to June 4 in the United States, with Eastern time lagging Taipei time by 12 hours.)
COMPUTEX is one of the world's largest annual trade shows focused on technology and computer hardware. Global industry giants unveil a
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As Micron Technology (
MU
+5.07%
) gears up to report fiscal third-quarter results on June 24, some investors are wondering whether it makes sense to buy shares ahead of the announcement. The chip leader has been one of the most pronounced beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence (AI) infrastructure boom, yet its parabolic rise has left some wondering whether the easy money has already been ma
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Micron Technology (
MU
+5.07%
) stock has delivered outstanding gains to investors so far in 2026, with shares of the memory specialist rising by 208% as of this writing, and the good part is that the stock could get a big shot in the arm in June.
Micron is set to release its fiscal 2026 third-quarter results on June 24. The favorable demand-supply conditions in the memory market, driven by artif
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Iren (
IREN
0.87%
) has rallied by more than 45% year to date, and its recently announced deal with Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) added to the momentum. The GPU leader will support Iren in deploying AI chips for up to 5 gigawatts of its data centers. That sets the stage for substantial revenue growth for Iren.
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The terms of the deal
Iren was already a heavy buyer of Nvidia's
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Sitting here today, with stocks like Micron Technology zooming past a $1 trillion market cap and delivering 10x gains in a year, can make you feel like there is no opportunity left to buy artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. Stocks like Nvidia have been soaring for the last few years, and now trade at premium valuations with major downside risks if the AI spending boom peters out.
What if I told
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While large language model (LLM) training dominated the first phase of artificial intelligence (AI), inference is eventually expected to become the much larger market.
While LLM training is compute-heavy and more technically challenging, inference tends to be memory-centric and needs to be more cost-efficient given that it's an ongoing process. Traditionally, graphics processing units (GPUs) and
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Amazingly, shares of Micron Technology (
MU
+5.07%
) have doubled over the past 48 days.
As a result, this week the Boise, Idaho-based semiconductor manufacturer entered the rarefied $1 trillion club. Its market capitalization, as I write this, is about $1.04 trillion. That puts it, in terms of market value, above Walmart, Eli Lilly, and Berkshire Hathaway. Only about 14 publicly traded companies
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Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) stock has been one of the best investments of all time. It's unlikely that anyone who bought it when it went public back in 1999 at $12 per share recognized what the chipmaker would become, but investors who were impressed with the company at nearly any point in its existence and took a long-term approach to it have been well rewarded.
But is the stock's extended run-up larg
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While investors know Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) as the chipmaker at the center of the artificial intelligence (AI) universe, the company also invests in other companies, several of which are publicly traded.
These are typically other AI companies that Nvidia partners with or that are key suppliers or customers.
Nvidia's investment portfolio swelled close to $18.4 billion at the end of the first quart
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Two of the most impressive stocks over the past year have been Micron (
MU
+5.07%
) and Sandisk (
SNDK
+3.25%
). Micron's stock has risen an outstanding 860%, and any investor would be thrilled with a return like that. However, after comparing it to Sandisk's meteoric rise, it looks a bit lacking. Sandisk's stock has risen a jaw-dropping 4,160% over the past year. So, if you had the foresight to i
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Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) has been one of the stock market's biggest winners over the last five years. The company's share price has rocketed roughly 1,280% higher over the stretch, delivering potentially life-changing returns for patient shareholders.
Thanks to those incredible gains, Nvidia now has a market capitalization of roughly $5.18 trillion and stands as the world's most valuable company by
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Micron Technology (
MU
+5.07%
) has been around for nearly 50 years, but these days, this tech giant is experiencing growth you might generally expect from an exciting start-up. This is thanks to the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, which has supercharged demand for the company's memory and storage offerings and translated into significant revenue growth.
As a result, investors have rushed to g
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Alphabet (
GOOGL
2.54%
) (
GOOG
2.52%
) and Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) are two of the most valuable stocks in the world, with market capitalizations of $4.6 trillion and $5.1 trillion, respectively. Both companies have deep roots in artificial intelligence (AI), though there has historically been little overlap between the two.
Alphabet dominates the digital advertising market, due in part to propriet
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Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) dropped a major bombshell during its Q1 earnings. Management expects data center capital expenditures to reach $1 trillion in 2027, which keeps the entire industry on track to achieve a massive $3 trillion to $4 trillion annual spend by 2030. That's a huge growth prediction, but Nvidia is already probably receiving orders for 2027 products that allow it to back this projectio
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Being the largest and being the most important company aren't necessarily the same thing. Nvidia (
NVDA
1.00%
) is the largest company by a fairly wide margin -- at the time of this writing, it has about a $500 billion lead over second-place Alphabet -- but does that mean it's also the most important?
Let's take a look to see how important Nvidia is, and if the world could survive without it.
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Micron Technology shares jumped more than 19% on Tuesday, the memory-chip maker's biggest single-session gain since 2011, and the move pushed the company past $1 trillion in market value for the first time -- making it one of the 10 most valuable public companies in the U.S., as of this writing. The catalyst for the stock's big surge this week was a sharply higher price target from a major Wall St