Nvidia faces reckoning as Chinese upstart raises questions about Wall Street’s darling

New York: The superstar run for Nvidia’s stock the last few years has been astonishing. So was its tumble Monday, which caused USD 595 billion in wealth to vanish. That’s about as much as PepsiCo, McDonalds, Starbucks and Target are worth, combined. Mostly known only in gaming and crypto circles a few years ago, Nvidia burst into the zeitgeist after seeing its sales surge because customers wanted its chips to train their chatbots and other artificial intelligence products.