Intel Corporation and NVIDIA today announced their partnership to collaboratively create bespoke PC and data center solutions across multiple generations, accelerating workloads and applications in the hyperscale, corporate, and consumer markets.
To provide customers with state-of-the-art solutions, the companies will concentrate on seamlessly integrating NVIDIA and Intel architectures through NVIDIA NVLink.
This will combine the advantages of NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing with Intel’s top CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem.
Intel will construct specialized x86 CPUs for data centers that NVIDIA will include in its AI infrastructure platforms and sell.
Intel will develop and market x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) for personal computers that incorporate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets.
Numerous PCs that require the integration of top-tier CPUs and GPUs will be powered by these new x86 RTX SOCs.
At a price of $23.28 per share, NVIDIA will invest $5 billion in Intel’s common shares.
Customary closing requirements, such as obtaining the necessary regulatory permissions, apply to the investment.
“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 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.”
