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Nvidia market capitalization surpasses 5 trillion dollars
Tuesday, February 17, 2026 at 08:21 PM
NVIDIA achieved a market capitalization milestone of over 5 trillion dollars in October 2025, a company founded in a Denny's restaurant in 1993 by Jensen Huang and two co-founders after his tenure at AMD and LSI Logic.
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Nvidia reached a historic milestone in October 2025, becoming the first company in history to surpass a $5 trillion market capitalization. This valuation reflects the firm’s total dominance of the AI hardware sector and its role as the primary architect of the global semiconductor supply chain. The surge is fueled by sustained demand for high-performance GPUs, which remain the essential backbone for generative AI development and massive enterprise cloud infrastructure.
The achievement marks a dramatic evolution for a company co-founded in a San Jose Denny’s by CEO Jensen Huang, who ironically began his career as a technical engineer at AMD. By scaling from a niche graphics chipmaker to the world’s most valuable corporation, Nvidia has effectively decoupled itself from traditional hardware cycles. This milestone signals a permanent shift in the global economy, positioning high-performance compute as the world's most critical and valuable commodity.
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