Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has openly admitted to global employees that Nvidia has surpassed Intel in the AI chip market. This candid acknowledgment underscores the company's dramatic fall from its former dominance in the semiconductor sector and highlights the scale of Intel's struggles in the AI era.

Nvidia ( NVDA -0.42%) stock has returned 29% this year, and its market value currently stands at $4.2 trillion. Meanwhile, Palantir ( PLTR -0.34%) shares have advanced 104%, and its market value currently stands at $360 billion. That brings their collective valuation to $4.5 trillion.

At the Beijing Expo, Jensen Huang also announced plans for a new chip for Chinese clients that is designed for robotics and smart factories.

NVIDIA's beefed-up GB300 'Blackwell Ultra' AI servers are now in production, will begin shipping in September, with 'no major issues' at this stage.

The growing demand for AI computing power has propelled both CoreWeave and Nvidia's businesses to new heights. Nvidia anticipates a growing need for AI factories to deliver processing power for AI at scale.

Amid rising infrastructure demands, AI startups like Crusoe Energy Systems are tapping large-scale credit lines, PitchBook reported. Crusoe last month raised a $750 million credit facility from Brookfield Asset Management (NYSE:BAM) to expand its data centers and acquire more graphics processing units from Nvidia Corp.