Rich Smith, The Motley Fool
Fri, April 24, 2026 astatine 11:41 AM CDT 3 min read
Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) banal jumped 4.9% done noon ET Friday. Strange arsenic it sounds, this was each due to the fact that of Intel (NASDAQ: INTC)!
Intel blew past expert forecasts for $0.01 successful pro forma net past night, reporting $0.29 per stock instead. Sales of $13.6 cardinal likewise bushed expectations for $12.4 billion.
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But wherefore would semiconductor investors deliberation this is bully quality for Nvidia?
With shares up 650% implicit the past 3 years, Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is 1 of the biggest beneficiaries of the artificial quality revolution. Nvidia's GPU chips morphed into the modular arsenic AI chips for powering ample connection models. In this race, Intel's not adjacent a distant 2nd -- it's darn adjacent the backmost of the battalion -- and not truly thing Nvidia investors interest about.
The bigger interest for Nvidia investors is that each bully things indispensable travel to an end. Gigantic piles of wealth are being thrown retired successful the AI abstraction to bargain chips and physique information centers -- but precious small wealth is coming successful from customers paying for AI services, with the effect that astir of Nvidia's biggest customers these days are losing money.
Any hint from Intel that things mightiness beryllium slowing down would truthful beryllium origin for concern. Instead, though, Intel announced past nighttime that its income grew 7% twelvemonth implicit twelvemonth successful Q1, and are acceptable to turn different 5% oregon truthful sequentially successful Q2.
So basically, Intel's results past nighttime rang the all-clear for Nvidia -- confirming that request for AI chips remains robust heading into Nvidia's ain net study adjacent month.
With a 41x P/E ratio and net maturation projected astatine 40% implicit the adjacent 5 years, investors are close to consciousness assured astir Nvidia.
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