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Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

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Re: Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

#11

Precursor to full acquisition perhaps...also maybe Jensen play to Trump a bit in this.

It would be 100% Trump to have Nvidia buy Intel and then announce how good of an investment decision he made by buying a slice of intel.

USA, where the federal government is picking winners and losers by making risky stock bets with public money.

Re: Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

#12
> It is unclear if Intel will issue new stock for Nvidia to purchase

Erm, a rather important point to bury down the story. The fiest question on anyone’s lips will be is this $5bn to build new chip technology, or $5bn for employees to spend on yachts?

Re: Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

#13
nVidia has also been licensing their GPU IP to MediaTek recently, who are working on a 2nd generation of a SoC that combines their ARM cores with nVidia GPUs now, catering to e.g. the automotive market.

Looks like using GPU IP to take over other brands' product lines is now officially an nVidia strategy.

I guess the obvious worry here is whether Intel will continue development of their own dGPUs, which have a lovely open driver stack.

Re: Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

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post #7

5B is a fairly tiny stake (Intel's market cap is around 120B), other than the "we're now working together" signal, why is this news?

In terms of voting stock, they become the biggest owner after US Commerce Department.

As customer they get better access to Intel Foundry and can offload some capacity from TSMC.

Re: Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

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post #7

5B is a fairly tiny stake (Intel's market cap is around 120B), other than the "we're now working together" signal, why is this news?

tbf, If I were Nvidia and antitrust wasn't an issue I'd be tempted to buy the whole thing.

Intel has a market cap just 2.5% of NVDA, so you could give away just 2.5% of your stock to buy the entirety of Intel. It's bonkers.

Re: Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

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post #9

About 16 years ago, Intel was considered an ugly monopoly that Nvidia didn't like [0]. It seems as if they have switched sides now. [0]: https://www.fudzilla.com/6882-nvidia-continues-comic-campaig... >

they need domestic chip capabilities

Re: Nvidia buys $5B in Intel

#18

Precursor to full acquisition perhaps...also maybe Jensen play to Trump a bit in this.

If you wanted to acquire Intel you'd do it now. Maybe Intel's future products are garbage and they do worse - but the upside seems pretty high otherwise. This seems like a bit of a firesale price to acquire an advanced fab and CPU maker. Sure, it's Intel and they haven't been doing great, but companies with solid reliable outlooks don't trade this cheaply.

Ofc I would kind of hope/expect antitrust to object given that Intel makes both GPUs and CPUs, and Nvidia is/has dipped their toes into CPU production as well.

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