Nvidia buys stake in Intel
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On 18 September, 2025, Nvidia and Intel jointly announced in a press release, Nvidia's $5 billion USD investment into Intel stock.[1] The deal was finalized on December 29, 2025. Both Nvidia and Intel develop GPUs for consumer and enterprise applications, making them competitors. As a result many have developed concerns over the persistence of Intel's GPU offerings and have branded the investment as Nvidia's attempt at furthering their monopoly by investing in their competitor. In December 2025, the FTC announced it had cleared the investment.[2]
Background
[edit | edit source]Nvidia Corporation is an American technology company that designs and sells computer components such as graphics processing units (GPUs) for both commercial and enterprise use. It was founded on April 5, 1993, by current CEO (as of 2026) Jensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, and Curtis Priem. The company is the largest providers of GPUs for both consumer and enterprise.
Intel Corporation is an American technology company that designs, manufactures and sells computer components and related products. It was founded on July 18, 1968 by Gordon Moore (of Moore's law), Robert Noyce, and investor Arthur Rock. The company is one of the world's largest semiconductor chip manufacturers.
Nvidia buys stake in Intel
[edit | edit source]On 18 September, 2025, Nvidia and Intel jointly announced in a press release, Nvidia's $5,000,000,000 USD investment into Intel stock.[1] Finalized on December 29, 2025, Nvidia purchased 214.8 million Intel shares at $23.28 per share.[3] Both Nvidia and Intel develop GPUs for consumer and enterprise applications, making them competitors. In both sectors Nvidia holds the highest market share, surpassing 90%, dwarfing both AMD and Intel by magnitudes.
Nvidia's investment into competitor Intel allows Nvidia to be able dictate the direction of the company and hence be able to prioritize profits over product quality. Nvidia could also potentially coerce Intel into gimping their products such as to make Nvidia's offerings seem more reasonable or worthwhile. Ultimately the investment is a conflict of interest, monopolistic in nature and not all beneficial to customers.
In December 2025, the U.S. Federal Trade Commision (FTC) announced in a notice that U.S. antitrust agencies cleared the investment,[2] despite it being anti-consumer and thus furthering Nvidia's monopoly.
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[edit | edit source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "NVIDIA and Intel to Develop AI Infrastructure and Personal Computing Products". NVIDIA Newsroom. 2025-09-18. Archived from the original on 2025-11-05. Retrieved 2025-11-05.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Bajwa, Arsheeya (2025-12-29). D'Silva, Anil (ed.). ""Nvidia takes $5 billion stake in Intel under September agreement"". Reuters. Retrieved 2026-01-07.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Carroll, Shannon (Dec 29, 2025). "Nvidia's $5 billion Intel bet just became official". Quartz. Archived from the original on Jan 2, 2026. Retrieved Jan 7, 2026.