NVIDIA and Intel will jointly develop new generations of custom data center and PC products to accelerate applications across hyperscale, enterprise and consumer markets.
The partnership centers on connecting NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing with Intel’s CPUs through NVIDIA NVLink. As part of the deal, Intel will produce NVIDIA-custom x86 CPUs that will be built into NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platforms and sold to customers. For PCs, Intel will produce x86 system-on-chips that integrate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets, targeting devices that need both high-performance CPUs and GPUs.
“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.”
NVIDIA will also invest $5 billion in Intel common stock at $23.28 a share, pending regulatory approvals and other customary conditions.
“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.”