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Nvidia invests $3.5B in MediaTek to expand AI chip partnership

Letting custom AI chips plug directly into its rack-scale architecture deepens Nvidia's ecosystem lock-in even as rivals chase in-house silicon.

• Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in convertible bonds as part of MediaTek's record $3.9 billion overseas bond offering, deepening a partnership around AI computing platforms.
• MediaTek, Taiwan's largest fabless chip designer known for smartphone processors, is using the deal to push into custom AI silicon design for hyperscalers, challenging incumbents like Broadcom and Marvell.
• MediaTek will adopt Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform, letting cloud and AI customers design custom XPUs that plug directly into Nvidia's rack-scale AI factory systems instead of building their own interconnects.
• Alphabet also participated in MediaTek's $3.9 billion convertible bond offering, though its stake size wasn't disclosed, and MediaTek's market value has roughly tripled in recent months.
• The MediaTek deal follows Nvidia's partnership with Amazon Web Services days earlier, in which AWS agreed to deploy two million additional Nvidia GPUs and adopt NVLink Fusion.
• The investment fits a broader pattern of Nvidia funding companies that extend its own hardware standards, a circular-financing dynamic drawing increased investor scrutiny even as Nvidia insists the businesses remain separate.