The past few years have marked a paradigm shift in technology thanks to recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI). A quick look at the list of the world's most valuable companies by market cap helps to illustrate the shift.

High-profile stock market stories tend to carry a stigma for investors in the sense that few know whether it’s best to trade these names or just hold them for the long haul. Today, the largest share of attention and capital is centered around the technology sector in the United States,

Nvidia (NVDA) is a Wall Street darling, a company that has defined trends and moved the rest of the market by itself. It earned its throne, first by revolutionizing gaming GPUs and then by seizing on the artificial intelligence (AI) boom.

Investors have been closely watching the Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) story throughout this artificial intelligence (AI) boom. And for good reason. The company is the leading designer of graphics processing units (GPUs),