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Intel and Nvidia team up on Intel x86 RTX SoCs for future gaming PCs [and Nvidia is investing $5 billion in Intel shares] (www.techspot.com)
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Nvidia is also investing $5 billion into Intel

What just happened? Intel has received another massive investment from an unlikely source: Nvidia. Team Green is purchasing $5 billion in Intel common stock at $23.28 per share, part of a collaboration that will see the two companies jointly develop x86 system-on-chips – called Intel x86 RTX SoCs – that integrate Intel CPUs and Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets for a wide range of PCs. Intel will also be building custom x86 data center CPUs for Nvidia to integrate into its AI infrastructure platforms. [...]

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[–] [S] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man I sure hope not. The fact that it doesn't say they are alongside this announcement does make me feel a little better about it given how generally happy they've been to announce all their cost-saving measures lately.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    It would be very bad news; it's possible they want to delay it.

    This puts them in a very odd position though. It's not an experiment like Kaby Lake G, it sounds like a whole graphics partnership that would be in direct competition with Arc (and its integration with Intel CPUs).

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