Nvidia (NVDA -8.48%) is known for hitting it out of the park when it comes to earnings, surpassing analysts' estimates quarter after quarter and reporting record levels of revenue. This is thanks to the company's dominance in the red-hot growth area of artificial intelligence (AI), a $200 billion market forecast to reach$1 trillion by the end of the decade. Nvidia makes the world's fastest graphics processing units (GPUs) -- the chips powering the most crucial of AI tasks -- and a broad range of related pr ...