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Nvidia’s $3.5 billion MediaTek bet discloses its plan for tackling Big Tech’s AI chip buildout
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Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek.
Key facts
- Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion into Taiwanese chipmaker MediaTek
- Nvidia is an AI infrastructure company,” Dion Harris, Nvidia’s senior director of HPC and AI hyperscaler infrastructure solutions, said on Monday on a call with reporters
- AI is transforming every computing platform, from the world’s largest AI factories to the PC and the car,” Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of Nvidia, said in a statement
- MediaTek and Nvidia will also continue “developing platforms for AI-powered, software-defined vehicles in the era of physical AI,” per a press release
Summary
The deal comes as a growing number of AI companies and major cloud providers like Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic invest in building their own chips so they can be less reliant on Nvidia’s GPUs. “Nvidia is an AI infrastructure company,” Dion Harris, Nvidia’s senior director of HPC and AI hyperscaler infrastructure solutions, said on Monday on a call with reporters. The partnership underscores the circular nature of Nvidia’s financing efforts over the past few years, which have often seen the chip giant investing in companies that flow back into its own ecosystem. Last week, Nvidia announced a similar partnership with Amazon Web Services, albeit without the direct investment.