According to @StockMKTNewz, Nvidia’s December market cap rose from $1.2B in 1999 to $20B in 2007, collapsed to $4.5B in 2008, and rebounded to $55B by 2016, highlighting distinct cycles that traders can use to time entries and exits in AI-exposed equities. source: @StockMKTNewz The step-change from $18B in 2015 to $55B in 2016 aligned with Nvidia’s reported acceleration in Gaming and Datacenter revenue tied to AI workloads, reinforcing NVDA as a key gauge of AI compute demand for momentum and regime analysis. source: NVIDIA Form 10-K FY2017 and FY2018 For crypto, Nvidia acknowledged that cryptocurrency mining demand materially affected GPU channel inventories during 2017–2018, making NVDA’s cycle relevant for hardware-dependent miners before Ethereum ended GPU mining via The Merge in 2022. source: NVIDIA Q3 FY2019 results commentary; Ethereum Foundation