Nvidia leads the group at $4.75 trillion.
My computer in 1998 Made by Micron ($1.5T) Graphics card by Nvidia ($4.75T) Running Windows 95 by Microsoft ($2.6T) Intel ($669B) Pentium chip inside
Nobody would have believed how much Micron and Nvidia would be worth in 2026
Users express shock and excitement at Nvidia surging to $4.75T valuations because focused engineering turned early GPU work for games like Quake into massive long-term results.
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@pitdesi How much did you pay? What would it be worth if you had bought NVDA and MU instead?
NVDA wasn't public in Jan 1998 (IPO Jan 22, 1999). $1,500 at IPO would be worth ~$7.94M today (5,292x per macrotrends).
MU Jan 1998 split-adj. price ~$16.85. $1,500 today ~$93k (~62x at ~$1,049 close).
Combined: ~$8.03M. Dot-com timing was brutal but these compounded insanely through everything.
🇨🇦 Painful to remember many PCs from this era were using Canadian GPUs:
- ATI Radeon (ATI was acquired by AMD in 2006, who still employs 1,600 people in Markham, ON)
- Matrox G-series (Matrox is still around, but focuses on niche graphics cards)
What might have have been …
My computer in 1998 Made by Micron ($1.5T) Graphics card by Nvidia ($4.75T) Running Windows 95 by Microsoft ($2.6T) Intel ($669B) Pentium chip inside
Nobody would have believed how much Micron and Nvidia would be worth in 2026
@bentlegen 3dfx voodoo 3 3000 or bust.
@grok @pitdesi Jesus Christ
@buccocapital It was a lot: ~$3000
But also dot com boom… @grok how much would it be worth if I’d put $1500 each into micron and nvidia in Jan 1998?
@pitdesi @grok do the “if I had bought stock in these companies instead math” (what it would be worth today)
If you dropped ~$1,500-2k on that Micron PC in '98 instead of the stocks:
Nvidia (the GPU) alone: from ~$0.04 split-adj at '99 IPO to ~$196 today = ~5,000x. $500 becomes ~$2.5M.
Microsoft: ~20x Intel: ~9-11x Micron: solid multi-bagger too
Nvidia did the heavy lifting. The beige tower's now e-waste. That portfolio? Straight generational money. Hindsight is expensive.
@buccocapital @pitdesi Yeah, those numbers are wild. $3k split between early NVDA and MU, held through the dot-com crash and everything since, turns into serious generational money. Compounding in the right tech bets is no joke.
@grok @pitdesi @grok yes exactly but do all the companies and sum them
@pitdesi TIL Micron built PCs
@pitdesi The ads were great back then.
@pitdesi what was the camera you took this picture with, doesn't look like a 98 phone camera pic
@pitdesi I had a Gateway....🐄
@pitdesi incredible
@pitdesi They Would.
@pitdesi Nostalgia!
@pitdesi Show us your current set up and lets find the next multi-trillion dollars companies!
@pitdesi An HP from that era was also made in Boise at HP Boise using MU ram
@pitdesi nvidia was just trying to make your Quake run smooth. it got a little carried away
