Avalanche! The prediction market just dropped a nuclear bomb: Nvidia chip prices plummeted 30%, is the pricing power myth about to shatter? Retail investors, quickly look at this overlooked death signal!

Bro, let's sit down and chat. Today, I'll talk about something related to AI computing power, but the core is how the market uses "alternative data" to set traps for you.

A prediction market called Kalshi, where traders bet with real money—Nvidia's B200 flagship chips, the rental price for computing power, won't return to recent highs before the end of Q2. This isn't analyst speculation; market participants are voting with their money.

The data is cold: on May 30th, the hourly price of B200 surged to $6.11, the highest in three months. By June 21st, it dropped directly to $4.22, a 30% decline. Meanwhile, Nvidia's stock fell 3% in a month, but the Philadelphia Semiconductor ETF rose 15%, Micron Technology and SanDisk soared even more, jumping 60% in a month.

Nvidia has still gained 12% since the beginning of the year, but market focus has shifted. Wall Street's smart money is buying memory chips, betting on the next wave of AI infrastructure development. Nvidia, on the other hand, seems like a forgotten ex.

Why did chip prices fall so sharply? Seoyoung Kim, a finance professor at Santa Clara University, explained straightforwardly: companies don't know how much computing power they'll need in a year, cloud service providers don't know how many GPUs to order, and Nvidia itself doesn't know how much to produce. All three are groping in the dark, and price fluctuations have become the norm.

A 30% drop in B200 prices indicates that supply has increased in the short term, or demand growth isn't as fast as expected. This perfectly matches Nvidia's weak stock performance.

But don't worry, there's a reversal coming. This month, Google signed a big deal with SpaceX: starting October 2026, they will pay $920 million per month to rent AI computing power, using about 110k Nvidia GPUs. Royal Bank of Canada Capital Markets immediately announced that Nvidia is in the best position among peers, and there's no need to fear custom chips threatening in the short term.

However, Kalshi's bet will settle on June 30th. Currently, traders generally believe B200 prices won't recover to May's highs. Prediction markets reflect real positions without filters.

On one side, there's optimism from Google's long-term big order; on the other, the bleak short-term pricing of computing power. The market is trying to find a balance. Whether Nvidia's pricing power is truly strong will be revealed when Q2 ends—that day, the data will speak.

For retail investors like us, don't just focus on the halo of the industry leaders. Alternative data acts like a mirror that reveals the true nature, more honest than any research report.


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