If You'd Invested Just $5,000 in Nvidia 10 Years Ago, You'd Be Sitting on This Fortune Today
Key takeaways
- Steven Porrello, The Motley Fool Mon, May 11, 2026 at 2:50 AM GMT+7 3 min read NVDA Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is widely considered the most dominant "pick-and-shovel" maker in the artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush.
- The company makes super-fast brains for computers (called graphics processing units, or GPUs) that help teach AI how to think.
- Our team just released a report on a little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly," providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need.
Steven Porrello, The Motley Fool Mon, May 11, 2026 at 2:50 AM GMT+7 3 min read NVDA Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is widely considered the most dominant "pick-and-shovel" maker in the artificial intelligence (AI) gold rush. Indeed, if you asked an AI chatbot, like Gemini or Claude, a question today, there s a good chance Nvidia s technology was doing most of the heavy lifting to provide you with an answer.
The company makes super-fast brains for computers (called graphics processing units, or GPUs) that help teach AI how to think. Since no other company s chips compare to Nvidia s, the chipmaker s sales have been growing like weeds.
Will AI create the world s first trillionaire? Our team just released a report on a little-known company, called an "Indispensable Monopoly," providing the critical technology Nvidia and Intel both need. Continue »