Nvidia Will Contribute $5 Billion to Intel to Build Custom x86 Chips

Nvidia will invest $5 billion in its competitor Intel to further intertwine Nvidia’s AI-boosting chips and Intel’s x86 architecture and CPUs. The companies will work together on several generations of data center and PC infrastructure, both companies announced on Thursday.

“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,” said Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang in a press release.

Intel will make x86 SOCs designed to connect to Nvidia chiplets

Intel’s x86 architecture is at the heart of many CPUs. Now, Intel will build custom x86 system-on-chips designs specifically to enable easy integration with Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets. The SOCs will be placed inside PCs data centers running Nvidia’s high-end CPUs and GPUs to accelerate AI processes. Intel will also build NVIDIA-custom x86 CPUs for data centers. The Nvidia ...