Intel, an industry leader, creating world-changing technology for global progress and enlightening lives and NVIDIA, a world leader in AI and accelerated computing recently announced a joint collaboration to develop AI infrastructure and personal computing products providing significant applications and workloads across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets.
Using NVIDIA NVLink, the two two collaborating companies will be connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures. NVLink essentially integrates NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing and Intel’s leading CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem advancing customers cutting-edge solutions.
NVIDIA will be investing in Intel through common stock in the billions:
NVIDIA will invest $5 billion in Intel’s common stock at a purchase price of $23.28 per share. The investment is subject to customary closing conditions, including required regulatory approvals.
Intel will offer NVIDIA custom x86 CPUs and NVIDIA will combine the CPUs into its AI infrastructure platforms in data centers.
In the area of personal computing, Intel will develop x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that are part of NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. In this regard, the integration will unite world-class CPUs and GPUs by assimilating the new x86 RTX SOCs which will power a wide range of PCs that have rigorous computing demands.
Further enlightenment about the two companies joint venture is further elaborated in both companies own words:
‘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.’
