Nvidia Pours $3.5 Billion into MediaTek to Boost Custom AI Accelerator Growth

Nvidia has invested $3.5 billion in MediaTek through convertible bonds, expanding their partnership and enabling MediaTek to adopt Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform for its custom AI accelerators.

This deal allows MediaTek to design accelerators for Nvidia's fully developed rack-scale platforms, while Nvidia gains a slice of the growing market of custom AI accelerators.

Nvidia's NVLink Fusion platform includes the NVLink Fusion chiplet, which connects custom XPUs to Nvidia's NVLink scale-up fabric using electrical or photonic interconnects; NVLink-C2C, which provides high-bandwidth, energy-efficient links between XPUs, Nvidia Rosa CPUs, and other compatible processors; and Nvidia NVHBM, which enables customized memory configurations.

The partnership also extends to local AI computing, automotive platforms, and the development of future generations of RTX Spark and DGX Spark processors for client systems, AI developer supercomputers, and enterprise workstations.