If you are in the stock market a bit and have some shares in NVIDIA, you will have noticed that the companies shares in roughly a year time have risen from 150 USD now passing 400 USD per share.

That's not a small gain, that's huge. A share of Intel would cost you 59 USD. AMD a year ago had a stock share value of  33 USD, right now they are closing in at intel as well at 52 USD per share. But yes. NVIDIA's shares valuer has grown intensely.  In absolute value, NVIDIA now is more significant than Intel and has become the third-largest company in the semiconductor market, behind Samsung and TSMC. Nvidia currently has a market capitalization of about $ 248 billion, up from $ 245 billion for Intel.