Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions
Nvidia is in talks with the Korean inference chip designer Rebellions

Nvidia is in early talks with the Korean AI chip designer Rebellions about a technical partnership, an investment or possibly an acquisition, Bloomberg reported on Friday. Jensen Huang met Rebellions co-founder and chief executive Sunghyun Park at Nvid…

Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff
Nvidia pays Poolside $6bn to license its model factory and hire 109 staff

Nvidia has agreed to pay Poolside $6bn to license the software the startup used to build AI models, and to offer jobs to 109 of its staff. It is also investing $1bn in what remains, at a $12bn pre-money valuation. The terms come from a letter Poolside …

Marvell hands Google a $12.2bn share option in a custom-chip deal
Marvell hands Google a $12.2bn share option in a custom-chip deal

Marvell Technology has agreed to give Google the right to buy up to $12.2 billion of its shares. In return, Google will buy its custom chips. The chipmaker set out the deal in a regulatory filing on Wednesday. Its stock jumped as much as 14 percent on …

Meet the startup helping Wall Street put a price on AI compute

The AI buildout shows no signs of slowing. And with hundreds of billions of dollars a year going into data centers and GPUs, compute has become the single biggest cost for anyone building AI products. But for all that spending,…

Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute
Nvidia’s new financial strategy does not compute

April – 1805 Napoleon is master of Europe Only the British fleet stands before him Compute is now an asset class I see it is once again time to talk financial innovation. Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs, and KKR are all working with Nvidia to put together $500 billion in financing to turn compute […]

Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China
Nvidia’s H200 finally reaches Chinese buyers, though maybe not mainland China

After eight months of export licences that moved almost nothing, Nvidia’s H200 accelerators have started arriving at Chinese technology companies. ByteDance and Tencent have each received about 10,000 of the processors in recent weeks, according to the…

The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention
The SEC staff agreed data centre securitisation sits outside Dodd-Frank risk retention

Nvidia announced $500bn of AI infrastructure financing last week, alongside Apollo, BlackRock, Blackstone, Brookfield, Goldman Sachs and KKR. A fortnight earlier, the Securities and Exchange Commission staff answered a question. It concerned how deals …

Jeff Gundlach says making AI chips an asset class looks like a market top
Jeff Gundlach says making AI chips an asset class looks like a market top

Jeff Gundlach has criticised Nvidia’s plan with six asset managers to mobilise more than $500bn for AI infrastructure, asking why assets of unknown life are collateral for long-term debt. Mark Cuban compared chips as an asset class to crypto. Jeff Gund…

Groq raises $350M to fuel its pivot from AI chips to neocloud

Groq raised $350 million at a $3.5 billion valuation as the former AI chipmaker pivots to a neocloud business and expands its Nvidia-powered data center footprint.

Nvidia investing $1.5B in SoftBank data center developer behind OpenAI project

Nvidia’s investment in SoftBank’s data center developer will guarantee its chips power an OpenAI data center.