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Jensen Huang, founder, president, and CEO of Nvidia, holds the Xavier AI car supercomputer, at a keynote address in Las Vegas on Jan. 4, 2017. Ethan Miller/Getty Images
The stock performance of companies in the semiconductor sector has been spectacular this year.
The Philadelphia Semiconductor Index is up more than 39 percent year-to-date, as of Oct. 27. That’s a massive outperformance of the broader Nasdaq Composite Index, which is up 24 percent since Jan. 1.