NVIDIA became the first company in history to have a market value exceeding US$5 trillion, and Jen-Hsun Huang is worth as much as US$5.4 trillion

Driven by the explosive growth in demand for artificial intelligence (AI) computing technology, GPU giant NVIDIA (Nvidia) has reached an unprecedented milestone, becoming the first company in history to have a market value exceeding US$5 trillion. This extraordinary achievement not only demonstrates NVIDIA's dominant position in the current wave of technology, but also confirms the market's high expectations for the transformative impact AI will bring.

Super growth rate and market dominance

The speed at which NVIDIA crossed the $5 trillion mark is amazing. The new milestone was reached in just four months after reaching a market capitalization of US$4 trillion. Today, NVIDIA's stock price rose by more than 4%, once exceeding $210, and exceeding the market capitalization of $5 trillion at $205.76.

NVIDIA’s market value far exceeds the sum of its main rivals AMD, Intel, Micron and Qualcomm. Even more than several S&P 500 sectors combined, such as utilities and consumer staples, the Wall Street Journal reported.

This reflects the development history of NVIDIA. Over the past decade, the company has successfully transformed itself from a maker of gaming graphics cards into a major supplier of AI chips, positioning itself at the heart of the AI ​​boom. Currently, major technology companies such as Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI are NVIDIA's largest customer groups.

In terms of financial performance, NVIDIA stock performance is extremely strong. Since 2025, the share price has grown by more than 50%. In the past five years, the share price has increased by more than 1,500%.

A surprising timeline of NVIDIA’s market value surge

NVIDIA’s rapid rise in market value clearly demonstrates the market’s intense demand for AI computing technology:

• In March 2024, NVIDIA’s market capitalization reached US$2 trillion for the first time. • June 2024, market cap reaches $3 trillion. • In early July 2024, NVIDIA became the first company to exceed a market value of $4 trillion.

Following closely behind, Microsoft joined the $4 trillion club in late July, while Apple (AAPL) became the third company to surpass $4 trillion in market capitalization earlier this week. Currently, Microsoft and Apple are the two companies with the largest market value after NVIDIA. At this stage, both have a market value of approximately US$4 trillion.

Key catalyst for market capitalization milestone comes from key announcements at GTC Conference

The key to NVIDIA's historic jump in market value is after CEO Jensen Huang made an important announcement at the GTC conference held in Washington recently. Jensen Huang announced that the company expects to receive orders for AI chips worth a total of $500 billion and plans to build seven supercomputers for the U.S. government. In other words, Huang pointed out that NVIDIA has a large-scale AI order production line and is about to play a key role in powering the US technology infrastructure.

In addition, NVIDIA also revealed an important strategic investment, that is, the company will invest in Nokia for US$1 billion. Nokia is a company that supplies 5G cellular telecommunications equipment to telecommunications companies. The purpose of this investment is to jointly develop next-generation 6G cellular technology using NVIDIA's chips.

NVIDIA’s market value has grown rapidly, and co-founder and CEO Jensen Huang’s net worth has also risen accordingly. Jen-Hsun Huang has been CEO since co-founding the company in 1993. According to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, Huang’s net worth is approximately US$180 billion (approximately NT$5.4 trillion), an increase of nearly US$66.8 billion from the beginning of 2025. Currently, Huang Jenxun holds about 3.5% of NVIDIA's shares, and most of his wealth is closely related to his holdings in NVIDIA.