Meet the Super Semiconductor Stock Crushing Nvidia in 2026
This 175-year-old glassmaker is now at the center of the artificial intelligence boom.
Overview
Graphics processing units (GPUs) are the data center chips that do most of the heavy lifting in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads. Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) supplies the world's best GPUs, and sales have been so strong that the company's market capitalization has grown from $360 billion to a whopping $5.8 trillion since the start of 2023.
However, it will be hard for Nvidia to replicate those returns going forward because of its enormous size, which is why its stock has only mustered a 28% gain so far in 2026 (at the market close on Monday, Oct. 5). Corning (NYSE: GLW) stock, on the other hand, has rocketed higher by 82% this year.
Details
Corning is a 175-year-old glass manufacturer with a wealth of experience serving the electronics industry. It supplied the glass for Thomas Edison's original lightbulb in 1879, and today, it makes the glass for all of Apple's iPhones. But the company is now at the center of the AI boom thanks to its fiber-optic data center cables, and here's why its stock probably isn't done going higher over the long term.
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Originally published at www.fool.com.