NVIDIA and Intel will develop AI infrastructure and personal computing products
Intel will design and manufacture custom CPUs for data centers and clients with NVIDIA NVLink; NVIDIA will invest 5 billion dollars in Intel's common shares.
NVIDIA and Intel Corporation announced a collaboration to jointly develop multiple generations of customized products for data centers and personal computers, with the aim of accelerating applications and workloads in the hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets.
The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel's architectures using NVIDIA NVLink, integrating NVIDIA's strengths in artificial intelligence and accelerated computing with Intel's leading CPU technologies and the x86 ecosystem to deliver cutting-edge solutions to customers.
For Data Centers
Intel will build custom x86 CPUs for NVIDIA, which will be integrated into NVIDIA's AI infrastructure platforms and offered to the market.
For Personal Computing
Intel will develop and market x86 system-on-chips (SoCs) that integrate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. These new x86 RTX SoCs will power a wide range of PCs that require the integration of world-class CPUs and GPUs.
NVIDIA will invest 5 billion dollars in Intel's ordinary shares, at a purchase price of 23.28 dollars per share. The investment is subject to customary closing conditions, including necessary regulatory approvals.
""AI is driving a new industrial revolution and reinventing every layer of the computing stack, from silicon to systems and software. At the heart of this reinvention is NVIDIA's CUDA architecture,"" said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA.
This historic collaboration closely unites NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel's CPUs and the vast x86 ecosystem, a merger of two world-class platforms. Together, we will expand our ecosystems and lay the groundwork for the next era of computing.
"The Intel x86 architecture has been fundamental to modern computing for decades and we are innovating across our entire portfolio to enable the workloads of the future," said Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel.
Intel's leading platforms for data centers and client computing, combined with our process technology, manufacturing, and advanced packaging capabilities, will complement NVIDIA's leadership in AI and accelerated computing to enable new industry advances. We appreciate the trust that Jensen and the NVIDIA team have placed in us with this investment and we look forward to the work ahead, as we innovate for customers and grow our business.
