Recently, the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has approved Nvidia’s investment in Intel, but did not disclose the specific details of the transaction.On September 18 this year, according to NVIDIA’s official website, NVIDIA stated that it would invest US$5 billion in Intel and announced that the two parties had reached a cooperation agreement and planned to jointly develop artificial intelligence infrastructure and personal computing products.
According to the cooperation agreement, in the data center field, Intel will customize x86 CPUs for NVIDIA, which will be integrated into the AI infrastructure platform by NVIDIA;
In the field of personal computing, Intel will produce and supply x86 system-on-chip (SOC) integrated with Nvidia RTX GPU chips. The two parties did not give a timetable for the launch of the first batch of products, saying that this announcement will not affect their respective future plans.
"This historic collaboration closely combines NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel's CPUs and vast x86 ecosystem - the convergence of two world-class platforms. Together we will expand our ecosystem and lay the foundation for the next era of computing."Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a press release.
Intel CEO Chen Liwu said in the statement: "We are grateful to Jensen Huang and the NVIDIA team for their confidence in investing, and we look forward to the future cooperation and continuous innovation for customers together. Intel's x86 architecture has been the cornerstone of modern computing for decades - we are continuing to innovate around the entire line of products to support various workloads for the future."
