Both are Nvidia! What is the reason for the decline of the Nasdaq?
The main news of yesterday was a decline in the Nasdaq index amid a sell-off in shares of Nvidia and other technology companies in the United States.
Nvidia is a technology company that manufactures graphics processors that, thanks to the active development of the IT sector and artificial intelligence (AI), are in high demand, which provides a significant increase in their capitalization (stock growth).
The most interesting thing is that DeepSeek was trained on the same Nvidia processors as GPT, with only minor differences. DeepSeek used Nvidia H800 GPUs, which do not have high performance. These processors were developed by an American company taking into account supply restrictions to China, which led to a decrease in their capacity and exclusion from the scope of American sanctions. In October 2024, the Joe Biden administration banned the supply of these processors to China, but at that time DeepSeek already had thousands of such devices.
In other words, the Chinese have significantly higher efficiency (efficiency factor) for an intellectual property product based on American technologies than the Americans themselves.
And here investors began to think about alternative investment options in the field of AI, which contributed to the sale of Nvidia shares and a slight drawdown of the US stock market. And behind him, the cryptocurrency sank, which is usually not typical for high-risk assets under this agenda. Although the crypt, if we consider it as a high-tech product, it is still, if not directly, then indirectly related to this area.
All this, among other things, touches on the topic price competitiveness of American products and directly related with this, Trump's interests are in the cheapness of the dollar.
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