{"id":53295,"date":"2025-09-18T13:38:35","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:38:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/nvidia-invests-5-billion-in-intel-deepens-cpu-collaboration-while-evaluating-foundry-technology\/53295\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T13:38:35","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:38:35","slug":"nvidia-invests-5-billion-in-intel-deepens-cpu-collaboration-while-evaluating-foundry-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.stockmarketwatch.com\/stock-market-news\/nvidia-invests-5-billion-in-intel-deepens-cpu-collaboration-while-evaluating-foundry-technology\/53295\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Invests $5 Billion in Intel, Deepens CPU Collaboration While Evaluating Foundry Technology"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Key Takeaways<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Nvidia (<a href=\"\/stock\/NVDA\">NVDA<\/a>) has announced a significant $5 billion investment in Intel (<a href=\"\/stock\/INTC\">INTC<\/a>), becoming one of its largest shareholders, holding potentially 4% or more of the company.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>The collaboration includes Intel designing custom data center central processors to be packaged with Nvidia&#39;s AI chips (GPUs), enhancing communication speeds between the two platforms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Nvidia&#39;s CEO, Jensen Huang, confirmed the company is still evaluating Intel&#39;s foundry technology for future manufacturing, despite the current deal not involving Intel&#39;s contract manufacturing business for Nvidia&#39;s chips.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Intel&#39;s shares surged over 32% in <a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/movers\/premarket\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Premarket Movers\">premarket<\/a> trading following the announcement, while Nvidia saw a more than 3% increase, signaling strong market approval for the strategic partnership.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Nvidia (<a href=\"\/stock\/NVDA\">NVDA<\/a>) has made a substantial strategic move by investing <strong>$5 billion<\/strong> in rival chipmaker Intel (<a href=\"\/stock\/INTC\">INTC<\/a>), positioning itself as a major shareholder in the struggling U.S. chip foundry. This investment is part of a broader collaboration aimed at tightly integrating Nvidia&#39;s leading AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel&#39;s CPUs and the expansive x86 ecosystem.<\/p>\n<p>The announced deal will see Intel design custom data center central processors, which Nvidia will then package with its high-demand AI GPUs. This integration is expected to facilitate higher-speed communication between the Intel and Nvidia chips, a critical differentiator in the rapidly evolving AI market where numerous chips must operate in unison to process vast amounts of data.<\/p>\n<p>While the immediate deal does not involve Intel&#39;s foundry business manufacturing chips for Nvidia, Nvidia&#39;s CEO Jensen Huang has indicated that the company is actively evaluating Intel&#39;s foundry technology. Huang previously stated in May 2023 that Nvidia was &quot;open to manufacturing with Intel&quot; and had received positive test chip results for Intel&#39;s next-generation process, underscoring a potential future expansion of their manufacturing relationship.<\/p>\n<p>This &quot;historic collaboration&quot; creates a formidable competitive challenge, particularly for Advanced Micro Devices (<a href=\"\/stock\/AMD\">AMD<\/a>), which competes with Intel in supplying chips to data centers and is developing its own AI servers. The market reacted positively to the news, with <strong>Intel&#39;s shares surging over 32%<\/strong> in <a href=\"https:\/\/stockmarketwatch.com\/movers\/premarket\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Premarket Movers\">premarket<\/a> trading, and Nvidia&#39;s stock also climbing more than 3%. Nvidia is set to become one of Intel&#39;s largest shareholders, likely owning 4% or more of the company after new shares are issued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Key Takeaways Nvidia (NVDA) has announced a significant $5 billion investment in Intel (INTC), becoming one of its largest shareholders, 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