Nvidia finalized a $5B Intel stake after FTC approval, buying 214.7M shares. The move bolsters Intel’s foundry push as 18A ramps.

According to Intel, the flagship Core Ultra X9 388H offers up to 60 percent higher multi-threaded performance (Cinebench 2024) than the Core Ultra 9 288V. In addition, gaming performance is reportedly up to 76 percent faster than the Core Ultra 9 285H.

Regulatory filings confirm that Nvidia has acquired roughly 215 million Intel shares at a fixed price of $23.28 per share, a transaction approved by the Federal

Nvidia has purchased Intel shares worth $5 billion, the American semiconductor firm said in a filing on Monday, carrying out a transaction announced in September.

Nvidia Corp. today disclosed that it has purchased $5 billion worth of Intel Corp. shares through a private placement.

Intel hasn't demonstrated that it's backing away from its quest to carve out some of the gaming GPU market share, despite Nvidia's dominance. And with CES underway, Intel will soon have an excellent opportunity to drum up excitement about the Arc B770.

RedGamingtech describes Serpent Lake as an "APU monster" similar in remit to AMD's Strix Halo chip. It's said to sport Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPU technology built on TSMC N3P silicon, while CPU tech from Intel's upcoming Titan Lake generation, more on which in a moment. Oh, and it's all supported by LPDDR6 memory.

The AI chipmaker had announced back then that it would pay $23.28 per share for Intel ⁠common stock, buying over 214.7 million Intel shares at the price set out in the agreement, as per Monday’s filing. The deal forms part of a broader strategic agreement to co-develop chips for data centers and personal computers.

Nvidia said the new transformer model has five times the compute behind it compared to the original transformer model introduced in 2025. DLSS was already good enough; it was hard to spot a difference between native and non-native images,

Samsung has unveiled its latest Galaxy Book 6 series, with Intel's Panther Lake and an Ultra model with support for NVIDIA RTX 50 GPUs.