How savvy trillion-dollar chipmaker Nvidia is powering the AI goldrush | John Naughton

The US firm best known for its gaming tech has long been ahead of the curve in supplying the tools needed by tech developersIt’s not often that the jaws of Wall Street analysts drop to the floor but late last month it happened: Nvidia, a company that makes computer chips, issued sales figures that blew the street’s collective mind. It had pulled in $13.5bn in revenue in the last quarter, which was at least $2bn more than the aforementioned financial geniuses had predicted. Suddenly,