Nvidia shares' 9% recovery Tuesday was the second-best day in terms of market cap added for any company ever, trailing only a record it set in July.

The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq treaded water on Wednesday, as losses in tech heavyweights Apple and Nvidia limited broader gains and investor focus turned to the U.S. Federal Reserve's interest-rate decision,

Is Nvidia's RTX 5080 really faster than the RTX 4090? See how this new card performs and whether it's worth upgrading from older models

It’s disappointing to see Nvidia has stuck with 16GB of VRAM on the RTX 5080. AMD’s RX 7900 XTX offers 24GB, and while the RTX 5080 delivers better performance for now, it may well hit video memory limits in 4K gaming in the future.

Markets widely expect the central bank to hold its lending rate steady in its decision, expected at 2 p.m. ET.

All told, Nvidia’s market share and its margins are bound to fall, and perhaps sooner than investors had thought before DeepSeek came on the scene. But there is still plenty of scope for it to remain a dominant player. And a wildcard remains: whether Mr Huang is truly the visionary his admirers believe him to be.

The company’s stock price has similarly soared, and its total market value quickly passed rivals like Intel, Microsoft and others. Nvidia alone accounted for more than a fifth of all of the S&P 500 index’s total return last year. No other stock came close, and it had more than triple Apple’s impact.

Customers camped outside the Houston Micro Center Wednesday morning eagerly awaiting the release of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 5090.

The superstar run for Nvidia’s stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused $595 billion in wealth to vanish.

The GPU giant laid out a very smart approach to agentic AI earlier this month at CES, but it could do more to clarify its business model and its software strategy.