Nvidia, the world’s leading chipmaker, announced on Thursday that it’s investing $5 billion in Intel and will collaborate with the struggling semiconductor company.
Nvidia said it will spend $5 billion to buy Intel common stock at $23.28 a share. The investment, which is subject to regulatory approvals, comes a month after the U.S. government took a 10% stake in Intel.
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called it “a fusion of two world-class platforms” that combines Intel’s strength in making conventional computer chips, known as CPUs, that power most laptops, with Nvidia’s focus on the specialized graphics chips that are critical for artificial intelligence.
“This partnership is a recognition that computing has fundamentally changed,” Huang told reporters Thursday. “The era of accelerated and AI computing has arrived.”
Intel shares jumped nearly 23%, its biggest one-day percentage gain since 1987. Nvidia shares added more than 3%.
For data centers, Intel will make custom chips that Nvidia will use in its AI infrastructure platforms. For personal computer products, Intel will build chips that integrate Nvidia technology.
Huang has been in Britain on a visit that coincides with Trump’s trip to the country, and he has been attending events with the president along with other Silicon Valley bigwigs.
At a signing ceremony for a trans-Atlantic tech partnership on Thursday with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, Trump mused that AI was “taking over the world.”
“I’m looking at you guys. You’re taking over the world, Jensen,” Trump said.
Huang and Trump also both attended a royal banquet, prompting the tech mogul to dish about the Windsor Castle event to Intel’s CEO in the seconds before their press event.
I think I'm going to miss the old Intel, even with the years of stagnation before AMD started challenging them. It's not clear whether Intel's Arc video cards will survive the collaboration with Nvidia.
Re: Nvidia To Invest In Intel
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2025 9:50 am
by Grogan
Nvidia has a history of acquiring companies to kill off their products. 3DFX for example.
It will (hopefully) be a long time before I'm going to need a new PC, but I think Intel, Nvidia AND Trump can go ride the bologna pony together.
Re: Nvidia To Invest In Intel
Posted: Thu Sep 25, 2025 10:01 am
by mlangdn
My first PC was a Pentium. It has been AMD with Nvidia graphics ever since. I haven't even looked at new PCs in six years. Might be about time....
Re: Nvidia To Invest In Intel
Posted: Thu Oct 09, 2025 8:36 pm
by Grogan
Here it begins, with the trumpofascist regime and Nvidia involved, Intel says they are going to only participate in open source where it benefits them and not their competitors. Already you need closed binary libraries to use their web cams and various management systems.
Speaking to press and analysts at Intel's Tech Tour in Arizona last week, Kevork Kechichian, who now leads Intel's datacenter biz, believes it's time to rethink what Chipzilla contributes to the open source community.
"We have probably the largest footprint on open source out there from an infrastructure standpoint," he said during his opening keynote. "We need to find a balance where we use that as an advantage to Intel and not let everyone else take it and run with it."
In other words, the company needs to ensure that its competitors don't benefit more from Intel's open source contributions than it does.
It's a good thing that AMD hardware (and driver support) has gotten better because I see no incentive to buy Intel again. It used to be the safest, most reliable bet, with confidence that the processors and chipsets would be the best supported (generally more tolerant/rugged too). I even got burned on AVX-512, because they suddenly decided that only their expensive enterprise CPUs should have that (supported instructions were always cumulative in the past... older Alderlake CPUs had that, even), while recent AMD CPUs are making use of it.
Re: Nvidia To Invest In Intel
Posted: Fri Oct 10, 2025 7:03 am
by Zema Bus
It was sad to see them failing, but now it's a lot sadder to see them becoming more like Nvidia and Oracle. "nobody ever got fired for buying Intel" - I don't think anyone is saying that anymore.
