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gold rush

American  

noun

  1. a large-scale and hasty movement of people to a region where gold has been discovered, as to California in 1849.

gold rush British  

noun

  1. a large-scale migration of people to a territory where gold has been found

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of gold rush

An Americanism dating back to 1875–80

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So what to do when the favorite ‘picks and shovels’ trade—selling the hardware to power the AI gold rush—is exhausted?

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So what to do when the favorite ‘picks and shovels’ trade—selling the hardware to power the AI gold rush—is exhausted?

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So what to do when the favorite ‘picks and shovels’ trade—selling the hardware to power the AI gold rush—is exhausted?

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So what to do when the favorite ‘picks and shovels’ trade—selling the hardware to power the AI gold rush—is exhausted?

From Barron's

Hardware designers such as Nvidia, which more than doubled its revenue year-over-year, are the main suppliers of the picks and shovels behind this new digital gold rush.

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