By Syeda Seirut Javed
Publication Date: 2026-08-14 23:58:00
NVIDIA Corp. (NASDAQ:NVDA) was mentioned during the August 12 episode of Mad Money, as host Jim Cramer detailed the expansion across artificial intelligence infrastructure, as he said:
Then today, aided by a benign consumer price index number, the data center stocks couldn’t be contained. Lumentum, which makes fiber optics, told a terrific tale… And finally, CoreWeave reported a monster quarter, demonstrating that their strategy of building data centers embedding NVIDIA chips… a longer shelf life than 3 to 5 years, was more than paying off. CoreWeave CEO Michael Intrator told us an insanely good story when he appeared on Squawk on the Street.
He gave us genuine proof that older NVIDIA GPUs are as valuable or even more valuable than when they were built, even ones that came out of the foundry 9 years ago. Yes, of course, they are. We got a chip shortage. NVIDIA’s chips are the most sought-after of all semiconductors, and they hold their value. Anyone who was worried about compute-backed bonds being dragged down by depreciation now looks like a dope.
These chips aren’t like cars that lose half their value the moment they drive off the lot. They’re more like fine jewelry. Plus, people keep forgetting that NVIDIA also has a software component with its CUDA product and the mass developer ecosystem that can be upgraded through all cycles, allowing 9-year-old…
