On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve trimmed interest rates aggressively and penciled in further rate cuts by the end of the year. It slashed the benchmark interest rate by a half-point to 4.75-5% for the first time since March 2020.

Interest rates have been hovering at a 23-year high to combat relentless price pressures. However, signs of inflationary pressure have ebbed recently, giving the Fed all the more reason to cut interest rates aggressively and let investors know that the central bank is not behind the curve.

A lower interest rate scenario may lead to stock gains for major artificial intelligence (AI) tech players like NVIDIA Corporation NVDA, Microsoft Corporation MSFT and Micron Technology, Inc. MU. This is because interest rate cuts reduce their borrowing costs and boost profit margins. Interest rate cuts also don’t disrupt the cash flows needed for growth initiatives to enhance shareholder’s wealth.

By the way, the euphoria about the AI revolution hasn’t faded. It’s here to stay and should drive the prices of NVIDIA, Microsoft and Micron northward. After all, NVIDIA provides technology for AI applications, Microsoft builds AI resources for its customers and Micron is a memory specialist. AI’s data centers require a lot of memory.

According to Statista, the AI industry is expected to grow beyond $184 billion in 2024 and continue to expand until 2030, with an estimated market size of $826 billion (read more: What AI Bubble? NVIDIA & 2 Other Chip Stocks With Strong Price Upside).

Even so, let’s look at other reasons why NVIDIA, Microsoft and Micron’s shares have more room to run.

Key NVIDIA Tailwind: Supremacy in the GPU Space

According to CEO Jensen Huang, as huge chunks of data are transferred from the central processing units to graphic processing units (GPU), NVIDIA will gain due to its bulk share in the GPU market. Precedence Research noted that the GPU market is expected to grow to $1,414.39 billion in 2034 from $75.77 billion in the current year at a CAGR of 13.8%.

Since developers rely more on the CUDA software platform than Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.’s AMD ROCm software platform, NVIDIA’s GPUs have a wide competitive moat. NVIDIA’s data center GPU business revenues were $26.2 billion in the second quarter, up 154% year over year. As a result, the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $2.80 for NVDA’s earnings per share (EPS) is up 76.1% from the prior year (read more: NVIDIA Approves $50 Billion Stock Buyback: Time to Buy?).

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Key MSFT Tailwind: Azure Growth

Microsoft’s Azure and cloud services business has picked up steam, with revenues from this segment increasing 29% year over year in the fiscal fourth quarter. Microsoft’s Azure cloud infrastructure unit is expanding faster than Amazon Web Services (AWS), which has dominated the cloud computing market for quite some time.