Monday, September 16, 2024

"Nvidia’s Stock Rally Pauses. A New Generation of Data Centers Is Arriving." (NVDA)

From Barron's September 16:

Nvidia has gained from renewed confidence in demand for its chips, partly fueled by cloud-computing and software company Oracle. 

Nvidia was slipping early on Monday as the chip maker looks set to give back some gains from the previous week’s rally.  

Nvidia shares were down 0.6% at $118.45 in premarket trading on Monday. The stock closed broadly flat on Friday but has risen 12% over the past five trading sessions. 

Nvidia has gained from renewed confidence in demand for its chips, partly fueled by cloud-computing and software company Oracle which has talked of companies spending $100 billion each on developing their artificial-intelligence models.

Oracle has outlined plans to build an AI supercomputer that will be powered by 131,072 of Nvidia’s next-generation Blackwell chips

“Nvidia is at the epicenter of all things related and is the pioneer for artificial intelligence infrastructure,” wrote Ken Mahoney, CEO of Mahoney Asset Management, in an emailed comment. “They have been and will continue to be the beneficiary of this movement.”

However, there are signs that investors in big data centers are diversifying what type of chips they intend to use....

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More and more talk about the progression from training to inference though. 

NVDA $115.63 down $3.47 (-2.91%), last.

Earlier on Oracle: "Elon Musk and Larry Ellison begged Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang for AI GPUs at dinner"