Without predicting the future of the AI cycle, the crypto bubble basically burst and the high end gamer market is a pimple on a pimple. And, certainly, the fact that the AI hype came along when it did was hardly ordained--though the availability of GPU hardware had something to do with it.

Nvidia's recent success was in no way pre-ordained to anyone who had two brain cells to rub against each other as various people here seem to think.