Wall Street has never seen a $5 trillion stock. However, Nvidia ( NVDA +2.26%) is getting awfully close, hovering at about a $4.5 trillion market capitalization. Less than a decade ago, Wall Street had never seen a $1 trillion company, so this meteoric rise from a company that was worth about $14 billion a decade ago is nothing short of incredible.

The U.S. giant has struck a spate of deals with some of South Korea’s biggest companies that will see more than a quarter-million of its chips deployed across the country.