If the B2B industry had the perfect couple announcement- this is it. Nvidia will invest $5 billion in Intel’s common stock.
The two companies announced that they will be working closely together to develop the next generation of custom data centers and PC products, including SOCs (systems on chips) that integrate Nvidia’s RTX GPU chiplets.
This is, without a doubt, a watershed moment. Two giants of the industry are coming together to collaborate. What possibilities could exist?
What kind of tech could emerge from this mixing of advanced tech?
“AI is powering a new industrial revolution and reinventing every layer of the computing stack — from silicon to systems to software. At the heart of this reinvention is NVIDIA’s CUDA architecture,” said NVIDIA founder and 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. Together, we will expand our ecosystems and lay the foundation for the next era of computing.”
It’s exciting to know what the future holds. It’s nothing short of a moment that deserves awe.
But there are a few considerations, namely, The Environmental cost of this computing and the threat of a monopoly.
These are factors that we cannot overlook. AI data centers require fresh water to cool them, and land mass.
Where will these go?
And what about a chip monopoly? Even though Nvidia hasn’t bought all the stock, this is massive. The news heralds a deeper change in the market- a race of computational evolution that seems beyond AI.
Almost into tech that might have seemed alien just a decade ago.
Only time will tell where the collaboration goes. It’s possible that this is just another ripple in a large market instead of the wave it seems.
