Nvidia made $273 billion in just one day! Decoding the rise and rise of this AI chipmaker

Nvidia's stock price jumped 16%, increasing the company's market value by a staggering $273 billion in just one day, a record amount.

The chipmaker has been seeing soaring demand for its semiconductors, which are used to power artificial intelligence, or AI applications. 

The company's revenue more than tripled in the latest quarter compared with the same period a year earlier.

It's the latest sign that the excitement surrounding artificial intelligence likely won't subside anytime soon. Nvidia, which has positioned itself as one of the most prominent players in AI, has been producing some eye-popping numbers. 

Here's a look:

• The previous record one-day jump was Meta Platform's gain of $205 billion on Feb. 2 of this year. In other words, Nvidia's one-day gain is more than the total market values of market stalwarts Bank of America ($265 billion) and Coca-Cola ($263 billion). In all, just 26 of the 500 companies in the S&P 500 have market caps above $273 billion, including Nvidia.
• It recently passed Amazon and Alphabet to become the third most valuable public company, behind Microsoft ($3.051 trillion) and Apple ($2.845 trillion). The company was valued at around $580 billion a year ago.
• Wall Street expects Nvidia's revenue to top $100 billion in fiscal 2025.
• Almost 50 cents of every $1 in revenue Nvidia took in last year went to its bottom line. By comparison, Apple's net margin is 25.3% and Microsoft's is 34.1%. Both those companies have significantly higher revenue than Nvidia, however.
• Nvidia identified Huawei as a top competitor in several categories, including artificial intelligence chips, for the first time in a filing with the Securities and Exchange commission late Wednesday.
• The Santa Clara, California-based company said that China's Huawei competes in supplying chips designed for artificial intelligence such as graphics processing units (GPUs), central processing units (CPUs) and networking chips. The company also identified Huawei as a cloud service company designing its own hardware and software to improve AI computing.