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Over the past few years,Nvidia(NVDA1.38%)has gone from a mid-tier tech company to the world's most valuable public company, with a market cap of over $5.1 trillion as of May 7. It has the artificial intelligence (AI) boom to thank, but you could make the strong case that the AI boom wouldn't have happened without Nvidia.Nvidia isn't just stopping at its highly sought-after GPUs, either. Its CEO,Je
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Nvidia(NVDA1.38%)has long been considered the ultimate artificial intelligence (AI) stock to buy. Why? Because the company is the maker of the key element needed for the most crucial AI tasks: the chip for the training and inference of large language models. Others also make AI chips, but Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) offer the highest performance, making them the most sought-after on
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Shares ofTower Semiconductor(TSEM9.46%)rallied 26% in April, according to data fromS&P Global Market Intelligence.Tower Semiconductor is a "lagging edge," or specialty semiconductor manufacturing company, which means it doesn't produce the most leading-edge chips in the world. However, Tower still differentiates itself through intellectual property in important chip types and materials, such as si
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Shares ofMicron Technology(MU5.81%)have soared by 710% over the past 12 months as the company has benefited from the rising demand for memory processors used in artificial intelligence (AI) data centers. Even amid the surging share prices of many AI stocks, Micron's performance stands out among the crowd.Technology companies -- includingAlphabet,Amazon,Microsoft,Meta Platforms, and others -- are c
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Shares of materials science specialistCorning(GLW+2.49%)surged earlier this week after the company announced a multi-year partnership withartificial intelligence (AI)chipmakerNvidia. The deal, which dramatically expands U.S. manufacturing of the optical components that AI data centers rely on, sent the stock to fresh 52-week highs. With shares now up an incredible 315% over the last 12 months, the
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Nvidia(NVDA1.38%), the world's largest company, has in recent days been dancing back and forth across the $5 trillion market cap threshold. Today, it's above that level. But those are just short-term movements. What long-term investors really want to know is when it could hit the next major milestone: $10 trillion. But is it even possible or realistic for Nvidia to get that far?Image source: Getty
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ExpandNASDAQ:IRENIrenToday's Change(-4.68%) $-2.48Current Price$50.46Key Data PointsMarket Cap$18BDay's Range$48.48- $53.1152wk Range$8.27- $76.87Volume366KAvg Vol40MGross Margin19.13%Iren(IREN4.68%), which develops and operates renewable-powered data centers forBitcoin(BTC0.04%)mining and AI cloud services, closed Friday at $61.2, up 7.65%. The stock moved higher after announcing a multi-year par
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Semiconductor stocks have been at the heart of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. That's because the chips and equipment are necessary to handle the massive computing power needed for AI workloads.Chipmakers likeNvidia,Broadcom, andAMD, to name a few, have been juggernauts over the past several years, but they have come back to Earth a bit in 2026. For the most part, that's due more to their u
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The proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI) has supercharged the semiconductor industry in recent years. That isn't surprising, as chips are the basic building blocks of AI applications.From training AI models to running inference applications to storing and moving data, chips are essential at every step of the AI lifecycle. Simply put, there won't be any large language models (LLMs) or AI s
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Micron(MU5.81%)stock took a tumble Thursday, falling 3% on a report from Bernstein highlighting trouble in the computer memory spot market.On Friday, shares of the popularcomputer memory-makerbounced 9.3% through 10:30 a.m. ET -- Bernstein may be behind this movement, too.Image source: Getty Images.What Bernstein says about MicronBernstein warned yesterday of a shortage of both DRAM and NAND flash
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ChipmakerNvidia(NVDA1.38%)is the largest publicly traded company in the world by market capitalization. It's also the largest publicly traded company in history, hitting a high of $5.26 trillion on April 27. It's currently at $5.17 trillion.That's a jaw-dropping valuation, and Nvidia reached it quickly.The company's market capis up more than 80% over the past year alone and more than 1,300% in the
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Nvidia(NVDA1.38%)has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial intelligence (AI) chip boom. Its graphics processing units (GPUs) are parallel processors, designed to break down certain types of massively complex calculations into a host of smaller parts, and then perform all of those small calculations simultaneously, rather than taking each task in sequence. And it turns out, the pr
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Nvidia(NVDA1.38%)isn't just a company that designs GPUs and products that support its hardware ecosystem; it also has an investment wing. While its portfolio of outside holdings is not as big as some companies hold, it is sizable, and taking note of what Nvidia owns is a smart strategy, because it has more information than the average investor about what's going on inside some of these companies.
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After a rough start to 2026, shares of AI (artificial intelligence) chipmakerNvidia(NVDA1.38%)have come roaring back. The stock has soared about 19% over the last 30 days, and at one point in late April completed more than a 32% rally off a late-March low. With the stock trading close to $212 as of this writing, they're just shy of their April 27 all-time closing high of $216.61.That kind of run m
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A few years ago, the primary argument in the AI computing space was whetherNvidia(NVDA1.38%)could maintain its dominance or whether a competitor like AMD could rise to steal market share. For the most part, Nvidia has maintained its dominance and has grown to own a far larger corner of the market than AMD. That argument has faded a bit, and a new one has emerged: custom AI chips.This debate is ver
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Nvidia(NVDA1.38%)andPalantir Technologies(PLTR+0.92%)both were superstars in the early days of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom. This is because they were among the first to benefit from the revenue opportunity -- and as a result, investors rushed to get in on their shares. Nvidia stock has soared more than 500% over the past three years, while Palantir has surged 1,700%.But in recent times,
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Chips are the building blocks of artificial intelligence (AI), and the growing demand has sent thePHLX SemiconductorSectorup 258% over the past three years. The bull market may not be over, as Statista estimates the industry will increase from $891 billion in 2026 to nearly $1.3 trillion by 2030.Those estimates won't hold up without growth fromTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing(TSM2.10%)andBroadco
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