History Says This Is 1 of the Biggest Risks Nvidia Faces, and It Could Be About to Repeat Itself

Cryptocurrency mining showed how quickly a market can move from GPUs to ASICs.So far, Nvidia (NVDA 0.27%) has been the biggest winner of the artificial intelligence (AI) boom, but investors should not forget how quickly hardware leadership can shift when a market matures. The cryptocurrency mining industry is a great example. Graphics processing units (GPUs) were once the workhorse of crypto mining, at least until application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs) were developed to take mining to the next lev ...