Image: Damien McFerran / Time ExtensionNvidia is one of the hottest tech firms of the current era and stands to benefit massively from the incredible interest in the world of AI – which relies on the powerful hardware produced by companies like Nvidia to function. However, once upon a time, Nvidia was a rather smaller outfit and had been enlisted to produce a GPU for what would eventually become the Sega Dreamcast. Following the failure of its NV1 multimedia PCI card – which was branded as the D...