Photo: Intelligencer; Photo: Getty Images 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