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Nvidia Is on Top but Does It Have Anywhere to Go but Down?

AI titan will maintain its strong lead, but complicated product rollouts, sky-high expectations and China threat add complications to growth potential

Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia
Jensen Huang, co-founder and chief executive officer of Nvidia Photo: Annabelle Chih/Bloomberg News

One problem with being on top is there is often nowhere to go but down.

Nvidia’s breakneck growth over the past 18 months has definitely put the company on top—both of the burgeoning artificial-intelligence market and the stock market. The chip maker’s fiscal third-quarter report Wednesday afternoon showed annual sales crossing the $100 billion mark for the first time ever—more than double what it was generating a year ago. And the company’s $3.6 trillion market capitalization is more than $100 billion higher than that of Apple

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