Nvidia becomes the first company in history to hit a $5.5 trillion market cap!

Nvidia has crossed a threshold no company has ever reached before, surpassing a $5.5 trillion market capitalisation and setting a new high-water mark for corporate value in financial history. The milestone eclipses the previous records set by Apple and Microsoft during their respective peaks, and arrives on the back of relentless institutional and retail demand for AI infrastructure exposure.

The chipmaker's ascent has been driven by an insatiable appetite for its GPU architecture — the de facto compute standard for training and running large AI models. With hyperscalers, sovereign AI programmes, and enterprise data centres all competing for Nvidia silicon, the demand picture shows little sign of structural reversal.

For macro and crypto investors alike, the number carries weight: Nvidia's market cap now exceeds the GDP of most G20 nations, and its trajectory has become a benchmark…