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Nvidia Completes $5 Billion Intel Share Purchase Under September Deal

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Nvidia has finalized the purchase of Intel shares worth $5 billion, completing a transaction first announced in September, according to a regulatory filing released on Monday. The investment represents a significant strategic and financial move involving Intel, which has faced mounting financial pressure in recent years.

Under the terms of the agreement, Nvidia paid $23.28 per share for Intel common stock. In total, the AI chip leader acquired more than 214.7 million shares through a private placement. The deal positions Nvidia as one of Intel’s largest shareholders and is widely interpreted as a critical financial boost for Intel, whose balance sheet has been strained by years of strategic missteps and heavy spending on manufacturing capacity expansions.

Intel has invested aggressively in domestic chip production in an effort to regain technological leadership and reduce reliance on overseas manufacturing. While these investments align with long-term industry and national security goals, they have significantly increased capital expenditure and pressured near-term profitability. Nvidia’s investment provides Intel with fresh capital at a moment when liquidity and investor confidence are key concerns.

The transaction has already cleared regulatory scrutiny. U.S. antitrust authorities approved the deal earlier this month, with confirmation posted by the Federal Trade Commission. This clearance removed one of the final obstacles to completing the agreement.

Market reaction was muted. Nvidia shares fell 1.3% in premarket trading following the disclosure, while Intel’s stock remained largely unchanged, suggesting investors had already priced in the deal since its announcement in September.

Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan Takes Charge of AI Strategy After CTO Departs for OpenAI

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Intel announced that its CEO Lip-Bu Tan will directly oversee the company’s artificial intelligence strategy, following the departure of Chief Technology Officer Sachin Katti to OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT.

Katti, who had led Intel’s AI division since a major management reshuffle in January, revealed on X (formerly Twitter) that he joined OpenAI, where he will focus on building the company’s compute infrastructure to support artificial general intelligence (AGI) research.

Intel confirmed the move in a statement, saying: “We thank Sachin for his contributions and wish him all the best. Lip-Bu will lead the AI and Advanced Technologies Groups, working closely with the team. AI remains one of Intel’s highest strategic priorities.”

The leadership change comes at a crucial time for Intel, which is working to reposition itself in the AI chip race dominated by Nvidia and TSMC. While Intel’s CPUs are still widely used in AI server systems, the company has struggled to deliver a competitive data center AI chip to match Nvidia’s specialized silicon.

Katti joined Intel four years ago, initially heading its networking group before being promoted by then-CEO Pat Gelsinger. Under Tan, who took over in March 2025, Katti became both Chief Technology Officer and Chief AI Officer in April, part of a broader restructuring to streamline decision-making.

Tan, a seasoned industry leader known for bold turnarounds, has been reshaping Intel’s leadership. He recently expanded Naga Chandrasekaran’s responsibilities to strengthen Intel’s foundry operations and hired Kevork Kechichian, formerly of Arm, to head its data center division.

Intel continues to emphasize AI as central to its recovery strategy amid fierce global competition.

NextSilicon Unveils New Processor to Compete with Intel, AMD, and Nvidia

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Israeli startup NextSilicon has announced the development of a new central processing unit (CPU) aimed at challenging industry leaders Intel and AMD, while positioning itself as an alternative to Nvidia’s computing systems. The company’s flagship “Maverick-2” chip is already in production and is designed for high-precision scientific computing tasks such as nuclear weapons modeling — an area historically dominated by Nvidia.

NextSilicon, which has raised $300 million in funding, revealed that its upcoming CPU is based on RISC-V, an open-source instruction set architecture increasingly adopted by major chipmakers like Nvidia and Broadcom. The CPU is currently a test prototype but will eventually complement the company’s Maverick-2 chip to create a more complete high-performance computing ecosystem.

The startup claims its chips can perform certain computations faster and more efficiently than Nvidia’s offerings, without requiring software rewrites. U.S. Sandia National Laboratories has been testing systems powered by NextSilicon chips for three years. According to senior scientist James H. Laros III, the results have been “impressive,” showing strong potential for advancing computational performance while minimizing code changes.