SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 18 (Xinhua) -- Nvidia and Intel Corporation on Thursday announced a collaboration to jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products that accelerate applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets.
According to the announcement, Nvidia will invest 5 billion U.S. dollars in Intel's common stock at a purchase price of 23.28 dollars per share. The investment is subject to customary closing conditions, including required regulatory approvals.
The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting Nvidia and Intel architectures using Nvidia NVLink, integrating the strengths of Nvidia's AI and accelerated computing with Intel's CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem to deliver solutions for customers.
For data centers, Intel will build NVIDIA-custom x86 CPUs that Nvidia will integrate into its AI infrastructure platforms and offer to the market.
For personal computing, Intel will build and offer to the market x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets.
"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," said Nvidia founder and CEO Jensen Huang.
CEO of Intel Lip-Bu Tan said, "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." ■