NVIDIA and Intel Collaborate on AI Infrastructure and PC Products

NVIDIA and Intel have announced a partnership to develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products aimed at accelerating applications across hyperscale, enterprise, and consumer markets. The collaboration will integrate NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing capabilities with Intel's CPU technologies and x86 ecosystem, utilizing NVIDIA's NVLink to connect their architectures seamlessly.

In the data center sector, Intel will produce NVIDIA-custom x86 CPUs, which NVIDIA will incorporate into its AI infrastructure platforms. For personal computing, Intel plans to build x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets, targeting PCs requiring high-performance CPU and GPU integration.

NVIDIA has committed to investing $5 billion in Intel's common stock at a purchase price of $23.28 per share, pending customary closing conditions and regulatory approvals.

"AI is powering a new industrial revolution and reinventing every layer of the computing stack — from silicon to systems to software," 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."

The CEOs of NVIDIA and Intel will hold a webcast press conference at 10 a.m. Pacific time (1 p.m. Eastern time) today to discuss the announcement.