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Nvidia Hits $4 Trillion Market Cap, First Company To Do So (cnbc.com) 25

Posted by msmash from the new-heights dept.
Nvidia shares jumped more than 2% on Wednesday, topping a $4 trillion market cap for the first time as investors scooped stock in the tech giant building the hardware for the generative AI boom. From a report: The chipmaker is the first company to ever achieve this market value. Nvidia is the world's most valuable company, surpassing Microsoft and Apple, both of which hit the $3 trillion mark before Nvidia. Microsoft is also one of Nvidia's biggest and most important customers. The California-based company, which was founded in 1993, first passed the $2 trillion mark in February 2024, and surpassed $3 trillion in June.

Nvidia has profited heavily off of growing demand for artificial intelligence hardware and chips since the launch of ChatGPT in late 2022. The company has positioned itself as the decisive leader in the creating the graphics processing units that power large language models.
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  • insider AI (Score:3)

    by zlives ( 2009072 ) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:15AM (#65507238)

    I got a special invite from a High ranking government official to a signal channel exclusive that told me to buy the stock so i did.

  • Appropriate wording (Score:3)

    by necro81 ( 917438 ) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @10:34AM (#65507262) Journal
    Phew, for a moment there I thought they were going to say "$4T barrier". Claiming some new round-number milestone as a "barrier" is a pet peeve of mine in sci/tech journalism. Sometimes it's the appropriate term ("sound barrier", "Coulomb barrier") - a difficult obstacle beyond which things really are different. ("Uncanny valley" is an inverse example.)

    But usually it's just lazy writing and inappropriate ("Exascale barrier [slashdot.org]", "30% barrier [slashdot.org]", "$0.30/GB barrier [slashdot.org]") - just another tick mark on an otherwise mundane curve of incremental progress.
  • They don't want you to have day one reviews of their DLSS slop cards anymore, and they still freeze like hell on Linux. But number go up to 13 figures while slaves get single figure wages am i right?
  • That's where this valuation is coming from. It's the possibility that Nvidia gpus will replace half of all white collar workers within the next 10 years.

    Personally I think it's a good Gamble. At least based on what basically everybody is saying and doing. Not that I can afford to invest.

  • It is unclear what the ROI is on all of these AI datacenters being built. This seems highly reminiscent of the fiber buildout during the internet bubble. Meanwhile, US copper prices jumped 13% today after Trump's announcement of a 50% import tariff. I'd imagine that will up the investment cost of building still more datacenters. At some point, some catalyst like copper prices will cause all of this to implode and Nvidia, currently priced to perfection, is going to take a hit.

    The bigger they are, the harder

  • Wish I had money to short that bubble... (Score:3)

    by williamyf ( 227051 ) on Wednesday July 09, 2025 @12:50PM (#65507644)

    ... But the market can stay irrational longer than one can stay solvent, so perhaps is better that I do not have that kind of money anyway.

  • When the bubble pops, and it will, we will be hearing all of those Wall Street people crying.

  • We have created a monster. I feel bad that AI's trolls are speaking against the very creators of content that AI is stealing from.

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