<div id="readability-page-1"><div id="ArticleBody-InlineImage-108317413"><div><div><p>Jensen Huang, CEO of NVIDIA, speaks during a press conference after arriving at Gimpo International Airport in Seoul, South Korea, on June 5, 2026.</p><p>Chris Jung | Nurphoto | Getty Images</p></div></div></div><div><p>Shares of Nvidia have been faltering recently  – and Kalshi traders predict that what the company can charge for chips is also declining.</p><p>While the artificial intelligence chipmaker is up about 12% in 2026, shares have been skidding in the past month, losing roughly 3%. In comparison, the <span id="RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-1">VanEck Semiconductor ETF (SMH)<span><span id="-WatchlistDropdown"></span></span></span> is up 84% this year, and the fund has advanced 15% in the past month.</p><p>Nvidia has sat on the sidelines as Wall Street has focused on memory chips and infrastructure in the next steps of the AI buildout. This has been driving gains for companies like <span id="RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-3">Micron Technology<span><span id="-WatchlistDropdown"></span></span></span> and <span id="RegularArticle-QuoteInBody-4">Sandisk<span><span id="-WatchlistDropdown"></span></span></span>, both up nearly 60% in the past month alone.</p><p>As shares of Nvidia have been languishing, the compute price for the company's B200 chip has also dropped. Nvidia's B200 is the company's flagship graphics processing unit or GPU that helps run data centers at a massive scale. </p><p>B200's compute per hour price climbed to $6.11 on May 30, the highest within the last three months, according to Ornn, which provides live GPU compute prices across major hardware types. Since that day, the dashboard shows B200 compute per hour price declining, sitting at $4.22 as of June 21.</p></div><p>Kalshi traders are now pessimistic that Nvidia's AI chip's compute price will surpass May's high. </p><div><p>Most companies rent access for GPUs through cloud providers or neoclouds, another growing ecosystem. However, the cost to rent GPUs can fluctuate as demand for AI infrastructure grows. </p><p>&#34;A lot of people don't know how much computing power they'll need in the next year, and a lot of suppliers of that computing power right now don't know how many GPUs and to what capacity they should order,&#34; Seoyoung Kim, a finance professor at Santa Clara University, previously told CNBC. &#34;And the manufacturers, like Nvidia, they don't know how much they should produce.&#34;</p><p>Earlier this month, Google agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month to rent AI computing capacity from October 2026 through June 2029. In doing so, Google will use roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs, memory and other related components. After the deal, RBC Capital Markets was bullish on Nvidia's performance for the second half of 2026 and 2027, saying the chip giant &#34;looks best positioned among peers.&#34; </p><p>&#34;Regardless of the precise rationale, these GPU rental agreements should put to rest lingering concerns about NVDA losing share to [application-specific integrated circuits], at least in the short term,&#34; the analysts wrote. </p><p><em>— CNBC's Yun Li contributed to this story.</em></p><p><em>Disclosure: CNBC and Kalshi have a commercial relationship that includes customer acquisition and a minority investment.</em></p></div><div><p>Choose CNBC as your preferred source on Google and never miss a moment from the most trusted name in business news.</p></div></div>

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<p>Nvidia's stock has faltered recently, losing roughly 3% in the past month despite a 12% year-to-date gain. Kalshi traders predict declining chip prices, evidenced by the B200 GPU compute price dropping from $6.11 to $4.22 per hour since late May. While competitors like Micron surge due to infrastructure focus, Nvidia faces uncertainty regarding future demand and production capacity, though analysts remain bullish on its long-term positioning following major rental agreements.</p>

- Nvidia shares have declined 3% recently, despite a 12% rise in 2026, as traders anticipate falling chip prices.  
- The B200 chip's compute price peaked at $6.11 in late May but has dropped to $4.22 as of June 21, raising concerns about future profitability.  
- Despite these challenges, a significant rental deal with Google could boost Nvidia's positioning in the market for the latter half of 2026 and beyond.

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Nvidia's stock struggles as Kalshi traders bet chip prices are coming down