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Nvidia to Acquire Mellanox Technologies for $7 Billion

posted by chromas on Monday March 11 2019, @03:01PM   Printer-friendly

takyon writes:

Nvidia to acquire Mellanox Technologies for about $7 billion in cash

Chipmaker Nvidia on Monday announced plans to acquire peer Mellanox Technologies for about $7 billion in cash.

The deal is Nvidia's biggest-ever acquisition and is expected to boost its business of making chips for data centers, allowing it to reduce its reliance on the video game industry, for which it is best known as a major technology vendor.

Financial news website Calcalist had reported earlier on Sunday that Nvidia had outbid Intel for Mellanox.

Mellanox Technologies.

Older articles at Reuters and The Register.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @04:41PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday March 11 2019, @04:41PM (#812749)

    They already do IBM POWER-based supercomputers. POWER 8+ natively supports NVLink with planned support for future version in at least POWER 11.

    Interestingly if you want to buy a performant non-blob infested PC then a POWER9 Talos II is the only choice. Even the motherboard firmware and CPU microcode have their sources available in git.