The boom in artificial intelligence continued to drive healthy growth at chip company Nvidia in the fourth quarter of 2024. At $22.1 billion, turnover in the last quarter was more than three times higher than a year earlier, the company said on Wednesday. Analysts had expected an average of $20.4 billion. The share price rose by around 10% at times in US after-hours trading. With sales of $18.4 billion, the data centre technology business was even five times higher than in the same quarter of the previous year. Originally developed for graphics cards, Nvidia’s technologies have long proven the…