While the demand is there, it's clear that's not the sole reason why Nvidia's RTX 50 series is impossible to find in stores. Many retailers received fairly low stock quantities, as Nvidia reportedly experienced manufacturing issues.

Banríon Capital Management Founder and CEO Shana Orczyk Sissel said that any pullback in shares of Nvidia - like the one sparked this week by Chinese AI startup DeepSeek - is a buying opportunity for investors.

Retail investors bought a net $562 million of Nvidia stock on Monday, the largest single-day inflow in at least 10 years, VandaTrack said.

The market reaction proved particularly severe for Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA), with shares plummeting and erasing half a trillion in market cap at the time of this writing. To put this staggering figure in perspective,

South Korean individual investors, who actively invest in U.S. and other foreign stocks and are known as ‘Seohak Ants,’ moved to buy U.S. semiconductor shares at lower prices after the emergence of Chinese AI startup DeepSeek shook the market,

Customers had started camping out in front of the Houston Micro Center Wednesday morning to get their hands on the high-end GPU.