Intel and Nvidia are teaming up in an unlikely partnership, which will see new products released in both the consumer and AI enterprise sector. As of late, Intel has been struggling, but with the announcement of a collaborative effort between it and Nvidia, the latter will be making a massive $5 billion investment into the company, making Nvidia one of Intel's largest shareholders. This will benefit Nvidia as part of the agreement will see Intel building them custom CPUs for their AI infrastructure, while Intel will be allowed to release x86 SoCs that are integrated with Nvidia RTX GPUs.

For personal computing, Intel will build and offer to the market x86 system-on-chips (SOCs) that integrate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. These new x86 RTX SOCs will power a wide range of PCs that demand integration of world-class CPUs and GPUs.

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[Reploid]

I've expected it to be the other way around.

 

[ChibiMofo]

I remember very well in the late 90s when Microsoft threw Apple a bone and invested a few hundred million into them at a time when Apple's stock wasn't worth much more than the cash they had on hand, which is astonishing especially in retrospect. MSFT had been dealing with antitrust nonsense because its competitors all sucked and couldn't make more compelling products and so they went and ran to the government and whined about it, so MSFT had an incentive to see Apple survive. There is also the fact that MSFT, just based on the sales of Macintosh software, would have been the 7th largest software company in the world, so they didn't mind having the Mac around at all.

Anyway, the iPod changed Apple's fortunes, literally, and MSFT made a ton of money when it sold the Apple stock it had purchased so cheap. We'll see if Nvidia ends up regretting this investment in a competitor that was licking its wounds.

 

[BlusterBong]

Very funny that the US governement and now Nvidia are trying to throw money at Intel, the CPU company that literally had an entire generation of CPUs that were literally defective with how badly they were with the thermals and oxidized themselves to death with the only thing of value right now being thier fab, compared to AMD, the other one that actually made several strides in thier own CPUs within the few years alone and also has thier headquarters and was founded in the US.

 

[Sonic Angel Knight]

Time for Nvidia shield NUC edition.

 

[codezer0]

And now I have the mental image of an Intel ultra 9 300 series needing the 12v high failure rate connector, and only coming in black because Jensen says so.

 

[diggeloid]

RIP battlemage.

 

[Skelletonike]

To be fair, I always found that intel with nvdia made more sense.

 

[GothicIII]

Cool, now we get burning connectors AND oxidizing chips! Great, I can't wait!

 

[Deleted member 706757]

when were you when Arc was kill?
I was eating chip when jensen ring
"Arc is kill"
"no"

 

[gbazone]

This will hurt AMD a bit, but competition is good. Also I sold a bunch of Intel stock today at 33% profit.

 

[Axido]

Not long until we have two choices:

1) Buy AMD and get a good CPU with a decent GPU.
2) Buy Intelvidia and get a good GPU with a decent CPU.

 

[Kioku]

Nvidia bailing out Intel was not on my 2025 Bingo card.

 

[Dark_Ansem]

literally had an entire generation of CPUs that were literally defective with how badly they were with the thermals and oxidized themselves to death

Which one was it??

 

[Flame]

Damn intel in high-school, you was the man homie. What the fuck happened to you.

 

[Ondrashek06]

It sucks that Intel actually had potential to create a third line of GPUs if you didn't want either nVIDIA's or AMD's option, and then this happens.

I hate duopolies. Android/iOS, Intel/AMD, nVIDIA/AMD, Nintendo/Sony (let's be real, Xbox is dead), etc etc etc...

 

[lightwo]

AMD CPU + AMD GPU, won't be changing that anytime soon

 

[xtrem3x]

AMD CPU + AMD GPU, won't be changing that anytime soon

Unlucky

 

[Foxi4]

Very strange bedfellows given the fact that Intel only just entered the fray in terms of dedicated graphics cards. You’d think they would integrate their own architecture into their chips. Then again, maybe this is NVidia’s back door into the x86 market more than anything else, and in Intel’s financial situation they’ll take any ally.

 

[DragonMals]

I don't know what to say about this. All I'm saying is that if Intel GPUs start to have a bit of issues with Linux should this get passed, then I'll never support nvidia again.