NVIDIA Corp. is investing USD5 billion in Intel Corp. as part of a landmark collaboration to co-develop custom data center and personal computer products aimed at accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) and high-performance computing applications across enterprise, hyperscale, and consumer markets.
The agreement, announced Thursday, involves NVIDIA acquiring Intel shares at USD23.28 each, subject to regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. The two US tech leaders plan to combine NVIDIA’s AI and accelerated computing platforms with Intel’s x86 CPUs and advanced manufacturing technologies to deliver next-generation solutions across the computing landscape.
“AI is powering a new industrial revolution and reinventing every layer of the computing stack,” said NVIDIA 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.”
As part of the partnership, Intel will design and build custom x86 CPUs for NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure platforms, which NVIDIA will integrate and offer to the market. In the personal computing space, Intel will also develop x86 system-on-chips (SoCs) that incorporate NVIDIA RTX GPU chiplets. These SoCs are expected to power a new generation of high-performance PCs requiring tight CPU-GPU integration.
The companies will also utilize NVIDIA’s NVLink interconnect to seamlessly bridge their respective architectures, maximizing efficiency and performance across workloads.
Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan highlighted the strategic value of the collaboration. “Intel’s x86 architecture has been foundational to modern computing for decades. We’re excited to combine our strengths with NVIDIA’s leadership in AI to drive new breakthroughs.”
Product rollouts from the collaboration are expected to begin as early as mid-2026.
