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Chip giant Nvidia (NVDA) remains central to most investors’ view of the stock market. That’s partly due to the company’s status as one of the largest publicly traded businesses and its weighting in most major indices.
Of course, most investors continue to hone in on Nvidia’s leading position in the market for high-performance computing chips as the reason to buy and hold this stock. The company has experienced volatility to start the year, such as a near-17% plunge in a single day on the emergency of rival Chinese startup DeepSeek. Investors are fearful for the potential of much more powerful artificial intelligence (AI) models to be built using less-powerful chips. This could hurt demand for Nvidia’s Blackwell rollout and for its future chips.