NVIDIA and Intel Corporation announced a strategic collaboration to develop multiple generations of custom data center and personal computing products. The partnership aims to accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise, and consumer markets.
The collaboration will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures through NVIDIA NVLink, combining NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing capabilities with Intel’s leading CPU technologies and the x86 ecosystem. This integration is designed to deliver next-generation computing solutions for enterprises, data centers, and personal computing users.
For data centers, Intel will design NVIDIA-custom x86 CPUs, which NVIDIA will integrate into its AI infrastructure platforms and bring to market. In the personal computing space, Intel will develop x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that incorporate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. These x86 RTX SOCs are expected to power a wide range of PCs requiring high-performance CPU-GPU integration.
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As part of the partnership, NVIDIA will invest $5 billion in Intel’s common stock at $23.28 per share, subject to customary closing conditions, including regulatory approvals.
“AI is powering a new industrial revolution and reinventing every layer of the computing stack from silicon to systems to software. At the heart of this reinvention is NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture,” said NVIDIA founder and CEO Jensen Huang. “This historic collaboration tightly couples NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel’s CPUs and the vast x86 ecosystem a fusion of two world-class platforms. Together, we will expand our ecosystems and lay the foundation for the next era of computing.”
“Intel’s x86 architecture has been foundational to modern computing for decades and we are innovating across our portfolio to enable the workloads of the future,” said Lip-Bu Tan, CEO of Intel. “Intel’s leading data center and client computing platforms, combined with our process technology, manufacturing and advanced packaging capabilities, will complement NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing leadership to enable new breakthroughs for the industry. We appreciate the confidence Jensen and the NVIDIA team have placed in us with their investment and look forward to the work ahead as we innovate for customers and grow our business.”
