Nvidia has only attained household-name status recently, but it’s the opposite of an overnight success. For decades, the company was mostly known for designing graphics processor units, or GPUs, for gaming, a market it eventually dominated. More recently, Nvidia’s longtime investment in applications beyond gaming started to bear fruit . First, crypto miners started hoarding Nvidia hardware, giving the company a surprise boost. Then, the company’s early alignment with GPU-hungry AI firms really paid off, turning it into arguably the biggest beneficiary of the recent boom. The global AI-driven data center buildout has pushed Nvidia’s quarterly revenue from around $13 billion when ChatGPT was released to more than $165 billion; currently, by market cap, it’s the most valuable company in t

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