The artificial intelligence hardware market has long been defined by Nvidia’s dominance, but new developments from Qualcomm and Alphabet suggest the landscape may be shifting.  With a market cap exceeding $4.4 trillion, Nvidia has reached a level of influence rivalled historically only by corporations built to run colonial trade empires. Its GPUs became the gold standard not just for gaming and crypto mining, but also for powering the deep-learning boom thanks to a combinati

SoftBank Group Corp. has once again made headlines with its decision to sell its entire stake in Nvidia Corp. for $5.83 billion, a move aimed at fueling its growing investments in artificial intelligence. The sale, though surprising to some investors, reflects founder Masayoshi Son’s ambition to position SoftBank as a dominant player in the expanding AI ecosystem (Bloomberg; Wall Street Journal). Son’s vision extends beyond software and into large-scale infrastructure, from S