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Don’t Get Too Excited for That Nvidia and Intel Chip Just Yet

What’s the point of competition anymore? Nvidia may still be trying to make its own CPUs. Intel could have beefed up its Arc GPUs around the corner. But now the two U.S.-based chipmakers plan to make SoCs, or system-on-chips, combining each company’s specialty. While we’re all curious about what this means for the future of PCs, you’ll need to wait a good long while to see what form the new chips from the new Wonder Twins will take. Nvidia is effectively netting a $5 billion stake in Intel, a d

Chipmaker Nvidia to invest $5bn in rival Intel

Chipmaker Nvidia to invest $5bn in rival Intel Intel's stock surged more than 25% on news of the deal, which could boost the once-dominant chipmaker. Shares in Nvidia rose roughly 3%. It will make Nvidia one of of Intel's biggest shareholders, with a roughly 4% stake in the troubled semiconductor company. The deal, announced on Thursday, will involve a partnership between the two American companies to make personal computer and data centre chips, as demand for AI continues to surge and compan

Huawei announces new AI infrastructure as Nvidia gets locked out of China

In Brief Tech giant Huawei unveiled new AI infrastructure meant to help boost compute power and allow the company to better compete with rival chipmaker Nvidia. At a keynote at its Huawei Connect conference on Thursday, Shenzhen, China-based Huawei announced new SuperPoD Interconnect technology that can link up to 15,000 graphics cards, including Huawei’s Ascend AI chips, together to increase compute power. This tech seems to be a competitor for Nvidia’s NVLink infrastructure, which facilitat

What Nvidia's stunning $5 billion Intel bet means for enterprise AI and next-gen laptops

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang has not yet been able to replicate his success in cloud AI data centers in the enterprise, where Intel's x86 dominates. ANDREW CABALLERO-REYNOLDS/Contributor/AFP via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways Intel's x86 technology helps Nvidia in enterprise AI. Custom chips for laptops will integrate both companies' technology. Nvidia declined to say if it ever plans to use Intel's factories. Struggling chip maker Int

Nvidia CEO Huang says $5 billion stake in rival Intel will be 'an incredible investment'

In this article INTC NVDA Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNT Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang attends the "Winning the AI Race" Summit in Washington D.C., U.S., July 23, 2025. Kent Nishimura | Reuters Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said that the company's $5 billion investment and technology collaboration with Intel comes after the two companies held discussions for nearly a year. Huang said that he communicated personally with Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan about the partnership. He called Tan a "longtim

Nvidia, Intel to co-develop “multiple generations” of chips as part of $5 billion deal

In a major collaboration that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago, Nvidia announced today that it was buying a total of $5 billion in Intel stock, giving Intel's competitor ownership of roughly 4 percent of the company. In addition to the investment, the two companies said that they would be co-developing "multiple generations of custom data center and PC products." "The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink," reads Nvi

Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel, co-develop new server and PC chips

In a major collaboration that would have been hard to imagine just a few years ago, Nvidia announced today that it was buying a total of $5 billion in Intel stock, giving Intel's competitor ownership of roughly 4 percent of the company. In addition to the investment, the two companies said that they would be co-developing "multiple generations of custom data center and PC products." "The companies will focus on seamlessly connecting NVIDIA and Intel architectures using NVIDIA NVLink," reads Nvi

China Turns Legacy Chips Into a Trade Weapon

While the Trump administration was trying to make a TikTok deal happen during a meeting with China last weekend, Beijing was busy adding its own bargaining chips to the table. Actual chips, in fact—semiconductors. In the past week, China has unveiled a series of regulatory actions targeting American chipmakers. The most significant is an anti-dumping investigation into American legacy chips that power everything from cars and refrigerators to washing machines and data centers. Unlike cutting-ed

Nvidia Appeals to Trump With a $5 Billion Intel Stake

Nvidia became one of competitor Intel’s largest shareholders on Thursday with a $5 billion stake. The two companies will collaborate to jointly develop PC chips and data centers. Once the dominant name in chips, Intel had been in a steady decline in recent years as it failed to keep up with peers like Nvidia in the AI race. The company started its official turnaround strategy last year by ousting its previous CEO Pat Gelsinger, who was eventually replaced by Lip Bu-Tan a few months later. Las

NVIDIA throws Intel a $5 billion lifeline to build PC and data center CPUs

NVIDIA has today announced it will invest $5 billion in Intel as part of a new collaboration between the two companies. In a statement, NVIDIA said it would work with its ailing rival to “jointly develop multiple generations of custom data center and PC products.” The partnership will focus on "seamlessly integrating" NVIDIA's class-leading GPUs and AI chips with Intel's ailing x86 CPUs. Some of that work will be based on harnessing NVLink, NVIDIA's existing system to marry-up x86 CPUs with its

Cold shoulder: Why Beijing is freezing Nvidia's access to the Chinese market

The Nvidia logo appears on a smartphone reflecting the flags of China and the U.S. Nurphoto | Nurphoto | Getty Images Beijing has reportedly halted purchases of yet another AI chip from Nvidia, freezing it out of the market completely — a move industry experts say reflects the country's growing confidence in domestic chip makers and an attempt at gaining trade leverage. It was only a few months ago when Jensen Huang announced, from China, that the U.S. would allow it to resume sales of its made

China tells its tech companies they can’t buy AI chips from Nivida

Nvidia just got shut out of the Chinese market — this time by the Chinese government instead of the US. China’s internet regulator, the Cyberspace Administration of China, banned domestic tech companies from buying Nvidia AI chips on Wednesday, as first reported by the Financial Times. The agency also told tech companies including ByteDance and Alibaba to stop testing and ordering Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D server, a device designed specifically for the market in China. Beijing had previously dis

China Just Fired Its Latest Shot in the Chip Wars — and Nvidia Took the Hit

Nvidia just can’t seem to catch a break. After beating a ban on China sales imposed by the Trump administration, the tech giant is now facing a ban on its products by Chinese regulators. Chinese internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) ordered top Chinese tech companies like Bytedance and Alibaba to end their testing and orders of Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D chips, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday citing people with knowledge of the matter. Nvidia unveiled the RTX Pro 6

China Bans Nvidia’s AI Chips

Nvidia just can’t seem to catch a break. After beating a ban on China sales imposed by the Trump administration, the tech giant is now facing a ban on its products by Chinese regulators. Chinese internet regulator Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) ordered top Chinese tech companies like Bytedance and Alibaba to end their testing and orders of Nvidia’s RTX Pro 6000D chips, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday citing people with knowledge of the matter. Nvidia unveiled the RTX Pro 6

Nvidia’s AI chips are no longer welcome in China

is a NYC-based AI reporter and is currently supported by the Tarbell Center for AI Journalism. She covers AI companies, policies, and products. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Alibaba, ByteDance, and other Chinese technology companies are barred from purchasing Nvidia’s latest AI chips custom-made for China, the Financial Times reported on Wednesday. The Cyberspace Administration of China banned buying and testing the RTX Pro 6000D chips,

Nvidia boss 'disappointed' by reported China chip ban

Nvidia boss 'disappointed' by reported China chip ban Mr Huang is one of a number of tech bosses, including Microsoft's Satya Nadella , accompanying US President Donald trump on his state visit to the UK. "There are a lot of places we can't go to, and that's fine," he told reporters on Wednesday. Jensen Huang added he would be "patient" in response to the move from China's internet regulator. The boss of Nvidia says he is "disappointed" that China has reportedly ordered its top technology co

Alibaba's shares jump after it lands a major customer for its AI chips

Alibaba shares rose on Wednesday after Chinese state media reported that the e-commerce giant secured a major customer for its artificial intelligence chips. China Unicom will deploy Alibaba's AI accelerators from its semiconductor unit called Pingtouge or T-Head, according to a report from China state broadcaster CCTV. Alibaba does not sell chips directly, but companies can effectively use the computing power based on those semiconductors by buying Alibaba cloud services. A person familiar wi

China says NVIDIA's Mellanox acquisition violated antitrust law

A regulator has accused NVIDIA of violating China's antitrust laws over its acquisition of chipmaker Mellanox. In its preliminary findings of an investigation it commenced in December , the State Administration for Market Regulation (SAMR) claimed that the company breached both national regulations and the conditional terms China outlined when it rubberstamped the $6.9 billion takeover. The SAMR hasn't announced any penalties yet, as the investigation will continue. The SAMR is said to have det

China says Nvidia violated antitrust regulations

Trade tensions between China and the U.S. regarding semiconductors just got even more strained. On Monday, China’s State Administration for Market Regulation ruled that semiconductor giant Nvidia was in violation of the country’s antitrust regulations, as first reported by Bloomberg. The ruling was in reference to Nvidia’s 2020 acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, a computer networking supplier, for $7 billion. An Nvidia spokesperson supplied the following statement, “We comply with the law i

China’s souring on Nvidia. Here’s why

Beijing is souring on Nvidia. China, which used to be one of Nvidia’s largest markets, seems largely conflicted about reaccepting Nvidia’s lower-tech H20 chips that Trump administration finally allowed to resume sales of in July. The Chinese tech industry might be excited about the Nvidia chip flow resuming, but the government is allegedly not. Chinese authorities have discouraged local tech companies from purchasing Nvidia chips citing national security concerns, and even questioned industry

Hot Chips 2025: Session 1 – CPUs

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Hot Chips 2025 and specifically the CPU session at Hot Chips 2025 where we had presentations from Condor Computing about their new Cuzco core, PEZY about their upcoming SC4s chip, IBM about their Power11 chip which is already shipping to customers, and Intel about their upcoming E-Core based Xeon CPU codenamed Clearwater Forest. Hope y'all enjoy! If you’d like more detailed break downs of most of the chips and the presentations, he

Hot Chips 2025: Session 1 – CPUs – By George Cozma

Hello you fine Internet folks, Today we are talking about Hot Chips 2025 and specifically the CPU session at Hot Chips 2025 where we had presentations from Condor Computing about their new Cuzco core, PEZY about their upcoming SC4s chip, IBM about their Power11 chip which is already shipping to customers, and Intel about their upcoming E-Core based Xeon CPU codenamed Clearwater Forest. Hope y'all enjoy! If you’d like more detailed break downs of most of the chips and the presentations, he

Nvidia, Broadcom, TSMC, other AI names rally on Oracle's massive growth projections

Oracle Corp Chief Executive Larry Ellison during a launch event at the company's headquarters in Redwood Shores, California June 10, 2014. Oracle 's massive growth trajectory for cloud infrastructure is lifting all boats. The cloud giant forecasted skyrocketing sales to $114 billion in the company's fiscal 2029, signalling demand for artificial intelligence processing will remain high over the next few years, and will require Oracle to build out new data centers. "The guide for a 14x of Oracl

The Top Android Phones of 2026 Could Get Better AI With Arm's New CPUs

On the same day Apple revealed its new iPhone 17 lineup, chip designer Arm is introducing its next generation of processors bundled into its new Arm Lumex platform. These processors will likely make their way into premium Android phones coming in 2026 -- and improve their AI capabilities without draining device batteries faster, Arm says. "It's pretty amazing how there's been kind of this insatiable amount of performance being asked for [by our customers], and a lot of it's around AI, as well a

New iPhones use Apple N1 wireless chip—and we’ll probably start seeing it everywhere

Apple's most famous chips are the A- and M-series processors that power its iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but this year, its effort to build its own wireless chips is starting to bear fruit. Earlier this spring, the iPhone 16e included Apple's C1 modem, furthering Apple's ambitions to shed its dependence on Qualcomm, and today's iPhone Air brought a faster Apple C1X variant, plus something new: the Apple N1, a chip that provides Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support for all of today's new iPhones

Apple’s N1 chip extends its custom silicon into Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, and Thread

Apple's most famous chips are the A- and M-series processors that power its iPhones, iPads, and Macs, but this year, its effort to build its own wireless chips is starting to bear fruit. Earlier this spring, the iPhone 16e included Apple's C1 modem, furthering Apple's ambitions to shed its dependence on Qualcomm, and today's iPhone Air brought a faster Apple C1X variant, plus something new: the Apple N1, a chip that provides Wi-Fi 7, Bluetooth 6, and Thread support for all of today's new iPhones

Report: OpenAI will launch its own AI chip next year

XH4D/iStock/Getty Images Plus via Getty Images Follow ZDNET: Add us as a preferred source on Google. ZDNET's key takeaways: OpenAI is building an in-house AI chip with Broadcom. The effort is likely the result of a partnership valued at $10 billion. Many AI companies are launching their own chipmaking operations. OpenAI is gearing up to launch its own AI chip, part of a broader industry effort to gain independence from third-party semiconductor companies. The ChatGPT-maker will start mass

Nvidia Is Not Happy With the Gain AI Act, Says As Much

In a move drawing considerable attention across the tech industry, Nvidia Corporation has publicly critiqued the recently proposed Gain AI Act, emphasizing its potential to stifle competition in the rapidly evolving artificial intelligence sector. The GAIN AI Act, which stands for Guaranteeing Access and Innovation for National Artificial Intelligence Act, was introduced as part of the U.S. National Defense Authorization Act, with the goal of ensuring that the United States is the dominant mark

OpenAI Spends $10 Billion to Get Into the Chip Business

OpenAI would like to stop being so reliant on Nvidia to handle its processing needs. To address that, the artificial intelligence startup is reportedly teaming up with Broadcom to develop its own chips, set to be available starting next year, according to the Financial Times. The Wall Street Journal reports that OpenAI’s deal with the US-based semiconductor firm will see the two work together to create custom artificial intelligence chips, which will be used internally by OpenAI to train and ru

OpenAI could launch its own AI chip next year

Robert Hart is a London-based reporter at The Verge covering all things AI and Senior Tarbell Fellow. Previously, he wrote about health, science and tech for Forbes. Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. OpenAI is on track to start mass production of its own in-house artificial intelligence chips for the first time next year, according to a report from the Financial Times. Unnamed sources tell the outlet that OpenAI designed the chip with US s