Half a trillion is marshalled as chips become an investable asset class

Claim

Jensen Huang, flanked by six Wall Street giants, unveiled over $500 billion for AI factories, declaring it really the first time that technology chips have become an investable asset class, with skeptics comparing sliced GPU revenue streams to packaged subprime.

Reported metric: $500B+

Reporting date: 2026-08-12 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to August 12, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)