ASX falls as higher inflation pushes back rate cut bets, BHP seeks Anglo American takeover extension — as it happened
ABCAI chipmaker Nvidia is close to overtaking Apple as the second most valuable company on Wall Street. Nvidia's share price has recently been boosted by its strong forecast for June-quarter revenue and last week's announcement of a 10-for-1 stock split, which got investors excited. The purpose of this stock split is basically to lower Nvidia's share price, without diluting the shareholding of existing investors. Nvidia, which has been one of the biggest beneficiaries of the AI boom, reported a five-fold jump in revenue at its data centre segment last week as customers line up for their high-performance chips. If you're interested in finding out why Nvidia's graphics processing chips have benefited greatly from the artificial intelligence boom, you can watch my explainer here: