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Russian (RU) Sun, Sep 14, 2025, 4:05 PM 4 min read
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To enjoy the lifestyle they hope for in retirement, most seniors will need to supplement their Social Security with other sources of income.
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Nvidia dominates the market for AI data center chips, and could achieve similar success in supplying chips for autonomous vehicles and robots.
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High-growth tech stocks can be more volatile and risky, so they are more suitable for investors with long time horizons.
Many retired Americans rely heavily on Social Security checks for their income, but often, those payments don't stretch far enough to cover all of their expenses. According to government data, in 2025, the average Social Security benefit is just $1,976 per month.
If that doesn't sound like much, that's because it isn't. A recent study projected that by 2040, 32.6 million U.S. households with retirement-age individuals could have an average cash shortfall of more than $7,000 annually. That gap between retirement income and retirees' needs is a big reason why many Americans will need to do more to build their own portfolios of investments, rather than trying to rely on Social Security benefits alone.
If you're on the hunt for stocks that could help you build wealth over the long haul that you can eventually tap in retirement, there are a few compelling reasons to make Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) one of your picks.
Nvidia has become a common go-to investment among both tech enthusiasts and average investors over the past few years, as the company is benefiting from a steep increase in spending on artificial intelligence infrastructure. Nvidia's graphics processing units (GPUs) dominate the artificial intelligence (AI) data center market -- it sells an estimated 70% to 95% of all AI chips for infrastructure.
In Q2, the company's data center revenue jumped 56% year over year to $41 billion, and its non-GAAP earnings per share jumped 54% to $1.05. Eventually, Nvidia's customers could slow their spending on its hardware -- particularly if AI doesn't deliver the results those companies are hoping for -- but that day hasn't come yet. Nvidia CFO Colette Kress estimates that tech companies will invest up to $4 trillion into AI data centers over the next five years.
And it's not just AI data centers that could fuel Nvidia's future growth. The company's tech is already being used in autonomous vehicles, and advances in the robotics industry could create another expanding new market for it in the coming years. Some estimates forecast that the global autonomous vehicle market will grow to more than $2 trillion over the next five years, and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said recently that robotics (including autonomous vehicles) and AI represent a "multitrillion-dollar growth opportunity" for his company.
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