For what it's worth, Wall Street is overwhelmingly bullish. Among the 65% of analysts who follow Nvidia, 92% rate the stock a buy and the other 8% rate it a hold ahead of the company's third-quarter earnings report. Not a single analyst recommends selling Nvidia at the present time. Here's what investors should know.

Nvidia stock has been the poster child for artificial intelligence and continues to defy the odds. But is the stock still a buy?

Nvidia dominates the AI processor market. Taiwan Semiconductor is a smart play on AI infrastructure. These AI stocks will likely remain leaders for years to come. Nearly every technology company touts its artificial intelligence credentials these days.

Nvidia's (NASDAQ: NVDA) stock surged 2,750% over the past five years as the artificial intelligence (AI) market exploded. Nvidia once generated most of its sales from gaming GPUs for PCs, but the rise of generative AI platforms drove more companies to buy its high-end data center GPUs -- which are used to process complex AI tasks more efficiently than stand-alone CPUs.

Plenty of stock have ridden the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) this year. I'm going to focus on the two that make my buy list. One aspect of AI software is the huge demand for data processing power,