$NVIDIA Corp(NVDA)$The Motley FoolHere's Why NVIDIA Stock Popped TodaySoftware could be a powerful new growth driver for the semiconductor titan.Joe Tenebruso(TMFGuardian)Jun 17, 2021 at 5:41PMAuthor BioWhat happened Shares of NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) rose 4.8% on Thursday, following an intriguing new analyst report. So what After speaking with NVIDIA's chief financial officer, Colette Kress, Jefferies analyst Mark Lipacis repeated his buy rating on the chipmaker's stock and boosted his price forecast from $740 to a Wall Street high of $854.Lipacis believes investors are underestimating NVIDIA's opportunity to license its new data center software. Yet that could change, Lipacis posits, once the company begins to report its software sales as a separate li