Nvidia's share price has typically declined during the year following a stock split.For many investors, Nvidia (NVDA -0.03%) has emerged as the quintessential artificial intelligence (AI) stock. That's because the company's graphics processing units (GPUs) are the industry standard in accelerating complex data center tasks, such as training machine learning models and running AI applications.Nvidia shares have surged 780% since the generative AI application ChatGPT went viral in late 2022. That event trigge ...