NVIDIA Corp. (NVDA)

Nvidia is recovering well on Friday, but it may yet be in need of more help before climbing back to its 2018 heights.

Nvidia's second-quarter profits were well below its year-ago earnings but were nicely ahead of analyst expectations.

Let's see what the charts look like.

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Investments by major enterprise software firms in AI/machine learning features are growing considerably. Chip developers and cloud service providers that make a lot of these investments possibly stand to benefit.

While it's understandable that AMD's guidance has sparked profit-taking after a big run-up, the company still looks poised to strongly grow its CPU and GPU sales in various end-markets.

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Much of the money that Microsoft is investing in startup OpenAI will likely go towards AI computing systems featuring Nvidia GPUs.

The chip manufacturing giant issued upbeat Q3 sales guidance and forecast this year's capital spending will be at the high end of a prior guidance range.

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The chip manufacturing giant, whose clients include Apple, Nvidia, AMD and Qualcomm, just reported strong June sales and beat its Q2 revenue guidance.

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There still appears to be plenty of interest among chip developers in further consolidation, and the easing of export restrictions on Huawei might make them less worried about Chinese regulators.

Assuming that enough of you are either long NVDA, or at least have an interest in the name, let's take a look under the hood, and make a more determined decision here.

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