US chip designer and software specialist Nvidia reported on Wednesday that its profit soared to $22.1 billion last quarter, up from $12.3 billion a year earlier. Revenue jumped 78% to $39.3 billion, surpassing analysts’ expectations. Sales of Nvidia’s data centre technology, which powers artificial intelligence (AI) models worldwide, rose 93% to $35.6 billion. Industry giants such as Google and Meta, along with AI start-ups like ChatGPT creator OpenAI, rely on Nvidia’s chips to train artificial