{"id":152678,"date":"2025-09-18T13:10:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:10:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152678\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:10:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:10:06","slug":"nvidia-takes-5-billion-stake-in-intel-announces-chip-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/152678\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia takes $5-billion stake in Intel, announces chip partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nvidia’s US$5-billion investment will make the company one of Intel\u2019s largest shareholders, with a likely ownership stake of 4 per cent or more.Dado Ruvic\/Reuters<\/p>\n

Nvidia on Thursday said it will invest US$5-billion in Intel, throwing its heft behind the struggling U.S. chip foundry, but stopped short of giving Intel a crucial manufacturing deal.<\/p>\n

The pact, which also includes a plan for Intel INTC-Q<\/a> and Nvidia NVDA-Q<\/a> to jointly develop PC and data centre chips, represents a potential risk to Taiwan\u2019s TSMC TSM-N<\/a>. TSMC currently manufactures Nvidia\u2019s flagship processors, business that the world\u2019s most valuable company could one day extend to Intel. AMD AMD-Q<\/a>, which competes with Intel for supplying chips to data centres, also stands to lose thanks to Nvidia\u2019s backing.<\/p>\n

Shares of Intel surged 12 per cent in premarket trading, while Nvidia was up 2 per cent. <\/p>\n

Nvidia, whose must-have chips are powering a global artificial intelligence<\/a> boom, said in a statement it will pay US$23.28 per share for Intel common stock, a price slightly below the US$24.90 at which Intel shares closed on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

However, that is higher than the US$20.47 price per share that the United States government paid for an extraordinary 10 per cent stake it took in Intel<\/a> last month.<\/p>\n

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Nvidia will become one of Intel\u2019s largest shareholders, likely owning 4 per cent or more of the company after new shares are issued to complete the deal.<\/p>\n

Nvidia\u2019s support represents a new opening for Intel after years of turnaround efforts at the famed U.S. manufacturer failed to pay off.<\/p>\n

The company \u2013 once the chip industry\u2019s flag-bearer that claimed to put the \u201csilicon\u201d in Silicon Valley \u2013 appointed a new CEO<\/a>, Lip-Bu Tan, in March. Tan has vowed to make Intel\u2019s operation lean and build factory capacity only when there\u2019s demand to match it.<\/p>\n

Crucially, the deal will not involve Intel\u2019s contract manufacturing business, known as a \u201cfoundry\u201d in the chip industry, making chips for Nvidia. Most analysts believe that for Intel\u2019s foundry to survive, it would need to eventually win a large customer such as Nvidia, Apple, Qualcomm or Broadcom.<\/p>\n

But the deal adds to a growing reserve of capital that Intel has accumulated weeks after it announced a US$2-billion investment from Softbank and received US$5.7-billion from the U.S. government.<\/p>\n

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David Zinsner, Intel\u2019s chief financial officer, told investors at a Deutsche Bank conference last month that the company was in a \u201cgood cash position\u201d and would not require much more capital until it saw significant demand for 14A, a next-generation manufacturing process that it expects to invest heavily in building.<\/p>\n

Under the deal announced Thursday, Intel is planning to design custom data centre central processors that Nvidia will package with its AI chips, known as GPUs. A proprietary Nvidia technology will let the Intel and Nvidia chips communicate at higher speeds than before.<\/p>\n

Those speedy links are a key differentiator in the AI market because many chips must be strung together to act as one to chew through massive amounts of data.<\/p>\n

At present, Nvidia\u2019s best-selling AI servers with those speedy links are only available using Nvidia\u2019s own chips, but the deal would now put Intel on equal footing, giving it a chance to make money off each Nvidia server.<\/p>\n

The combined Nvidia-Intel chips could provide a major competitive challenge to AMD, which is developing its own AI servers, and Broadcom AVGO-Q<\/a>, which also has chip-to-chip connection technology and helps companies such as Google develop AI chips.<\/p>\n

For consumer markets, Nvidia will provide Intel with a custom graphics chip that Intel can package with its PC central processors with the same speedy links, potentially giving it an edge against rivals such as AMD.<\/p>\n

While Intel\u2019s x86 computing architecture has lost ground in both data centres and PCs to chips with technology from Arm Ltd, it still has majority market share.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis historic collaboration tightly couples Nvidia\u2019s AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel\u2019s CPUs and the vast x86 ecosystem\u2013a fusion of two world-class platforms,\u201d Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a press release. \u201cTogether, we will expand our ecosystems and lay the foundation for the next era of computing.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two companies did not disclose financial terms of their technical collaboration but said they would make \u201cmultiple generations\u201d of future products. Nvidia and Intel officials described the collaboration as a commercial arrangement under which they will provide chips to one another to create products and said there was no licensing component to the deal.<\/p>\n

The companies declined to give a date for when the first joint products will come to market but said that their product plans prior to the joint deal have not changed.<\/p>\n

Nvidia in recent years has entered both the PC central processor market and the data centre central processor market. Intel meanwhile has tried to sell several AI chips that compete with Nvidia and has said it plans to develop an AI data centre server that would compete with Nvidia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: Nvidia’s US$5-billion investment will make the company one of Intel\u2019s largest shareholders, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":152679,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[901,888,902,879,877,903,45,49,48,876,895,896,891,878,875,46,549,295,894,887,914,880,881,893,889,890,884,904,885,909,910,912,907,911,905,908,882,898,899,714,897,906,865,61,900,892,886,883,913],"class_list":["post-152678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-business","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=152678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=152678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=152678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=152678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}