"Nvidia has purchased $7.58 billion worth of Intel shares at a low price. Because it had already agreed to an investment in September, it can purchase this portion of Intel for $5 billion. Nvidia completed the purchase of 214 million Intel shares on December 26, after the US regulator FTC gave the green light on December 18. That approval was relatively predictable: Intel is in dire straits and needs help."
"The combination of an Intel chip with an Nvidia GPU has previously only been available for discrete GPUs. The two companies connect their chips via NVLink, Nvidia's fast interconnect technology. It achieves 1.8 TB/s bandwidth per GPU, about fourteen times faster than a PCIe 5.0 x16 slot. For PCs, Intel builds custom x86 CPUs that Nvidia integrates into AI infrastructure platforms."
Nvidia acquired a 4 percent stake in Intel by purchasing 214 million shares after FTC approval, effectively paying about $5 billion under a prior agreement. The US government also bought a 10 percent stake to strengthen Intel. The partnership commits both companies to jointly develop multiple generations of chips for data centers and PCs, combining Intel x86 CPUs and systems-on-chips with integrated Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets. Chips will be connected via NVLink for very high bandwidth, and Intel will supply custom x86 CPUs that Nvidia integrates into AI infrastructure. The deal aims to regain market share from consumers to hyperscale customers.
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