The cyclical nature of chip stocks could affect Nvidia stock in the near term. Unfortunately for investors who want to buy Nvidia shares, its success has made determining whether it is a buy now a more difficult problem.

Investors were not impressed by Nvidia's quarterly performance and outlook even though it handily beat Wall Street's expectations thanks to the booming demand for its artificial intelligence (AI) chips.

Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) has become the second-largest company in the world, with a market capitalization of $3.3 trillion as of this writing. The semiconductor giant's impressive rise can be justified by the phenomenal increase in its revenue and earnings over the past couple of years,

Nvidia still carries the stock-boosting power, but its strength may be waning as some investors wonder how long it will last. According to a recent Bloomberg report, Nvidia founder Jensen Huang’s praise of Samsung Electronics memory chip capabilities last Wednesday prompted a 3% jump in the company’s shares.

Nvidia (NVDA) is a technology company that focuses on designing and developing graphics processing units (GPUs) for high-performance computing. It also develops application programming interfaces (APIs) and is the market leader in artificial intelligence (AI) hardware and software.