Both the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq hit record closes on Wednesday as the chip-making giant Nvidia broke the $3 trillion valuation mark, overtaking Apple and becoming the second most valuable public company in the US behind Microsoft.

週三，標準普爾 500 指數和納斯達克指數均創下收盤紀錄，晶片製造龍頭輝達（Nvidia）的估值突破 3 兆美元大關，超越蘋果，成為僅次於微軟的美國第二大最有價值上市公司。

The meteoric rise of Nvidia is driven by aritificial intelligence boom as investors bet big on its ability to provide the nuts and bolts behind this latest tech.

Nvidia 如日中天的崛起得益於這項最新技術背後的核心技術。

So to gauge just how far and how fast they've come, it's worth looking at where the share price was at the start of this year.

要衡量他們走了多遠，走得多快，不妨看看今年年初的股價。

And as you can see, it was under $500 a share.

如你所見，每股不到 500 美元。

On Wednesday, it closed at over $1,200 a share.

週三，它的收盤價超過了每股 1200 美元。

So that's just the rise this year.

這只是今年的增長情況。

It actually went up 5% in value on Wednesday alone, giving the market cap of just over $3 trillion, a mind-boggling sum.

僅週三一天，它的市值就上漲了 5%，市值略高於 3 兆美元，這是一個令人難以置信的數字。

Let's hear more from our North America business correspondent Erin Delmore.

請聽本臺北美商業記者 Erin Delmore 的報導。

Wall Street's on a record-breaking run.

華爾街正在創下歷史新高。

The latest?

最新消息？

All-time high closes for the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq, the latter powered by, you guessed it, Nvidia.

標準普爾 500 指數和納斯達克指數的收盤價均創歷史新高，後者的動力來自 Nvidia。

The chip-maker joined the $3 trillion club on Wednesday, overtaking Apple as the world's second most valuable company.

本週三，這家晶片製造商加入了 3 兆美元俱樂部，超越蘋果公司成為全球第二大最有價值公司。

Microsoft is still the world's number one.

微軟仍然是世界第一。

Nvidia is only the third company to ever exceed $3 trillion in market value.

Nvidia 是歷史上第三家市值超過 3 兆美元的公司。

It's leading in the race to develop the chips needed to enable new artificial intelligence applications.

在開發新 AI 應用所需的晶片方面，它處於領先地位。

And that's where the other tech giants, and a lot of companies, are spending big bucks right now.

而這正是其他科技巨頭和許多公司目前正在花費巨資的地方。

Nvidia shares ended the trading day up more than 5%.

Nvidia 股價在交易日結束時上漲了 5%以上。

Alphabet, Amazon, Apple, Meta and Microsoft all ended the day up as well.

Alphabet、亞馬遜、蘋果、Meta 和微軟也都以上漲報收。

The major indexes have been hitting high watermarks over and over in 2024.

主要指數在 2024 年一次又一次地觸及高水位。

This marks the Nasdaq's 13th record close this year and the 25th for the S&P.

這是納斯達克指數今年第 13 次創下收盤紀錄，標準普爾指數則是第 25 次。

And for more on the rise and rise of Nvidia, I talked to market analyst Anna MacDonald.

關於 Nvidia 崛起的更多資訊，我採訪了市場分析師 Anna MacDonald。

Nothing comes close to Nvidia's dominance when you start thinking about artificial intelligence.

當你開始考慮 AI 時，沒有什麼能與 Nvidia 的主導地位相提並論。

Jensen Huang, the CEO, has talked about it being the next industrial revolution.

Nvidia 的 CEO 黃仁勳曾說這是下一次工業革命。

And I think it's just astonishing, isn't it?

我覺得這太令人吃驚了，不是嗎？

We've had Microsoft and Apple such as stalwarts of the equity markets.

我們曾經擁有微軟和蘋果這樣的股市中堅力量。

And then Nvidia seems to have come out of nowhere over the last few years, having been a computer gaming chip company.

而 Nvidia 在過去幾年中似乎突然冒了出來，一直是一家電腦遊戲晶片公司。

And now here it is just delivering huge revenue increases and becoming more profitable while it's doing it.

而現在，它不僅實現了收入的大幅增長，利潤也越來越高。

So, it's actually, it's been an astonishing ascent.

這實際上是一個驚人的上升過程。

Are you concerned, Anna, when it comes to AI that we've got a bubble going to burst on markets at some point?

Anna，說到 AI，你是否擔心市場上的泡泡會在某個時候破滅？

Any kind of massive rise in share prices is going to lead to that.

任何形式的股價大幅上漲都會導致這種情況。

But I suppose I would say that Nvidia is actually selling these chips.

不過，我想我會說，Nvidia 確實在銷售這些晶片。

This is not sort of, not some kind of story that's being pushed out further and further and some kind of promise for the future.

這不是某種，不是某種被越推越遠的故事，也不是某種對未來的承諾。

They are actually delivering revenue and profit growth.

它們實際上正在實現收入和利潤的增長。