<p>NVIDIA became the first company to ever reach $5 trillion in stock market capitalization last week among a continued surge in technology shares.</p>
<p>Shares in NVIDIA are up 3.5% over the past week and 10.8% for the year. Demand for AI chips continues to drive investment in the company and top technology firms in the area.</p>
<p>The top three most valuable companies in the world are all based in Silicon Valley. Alphabet (No. 2) has a market cap of $4.2 trillion and Apple (No. 3) has a value of $3.9 trillion as of Monday morning.</p>
<p>AMD, Intel and Sandisk shares are all trading at record highs on chip and memory demand for AI data centers.</p>
<p>[Graphic above by Google Gemini]</p>

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