{"id":92641,"date":"2025-12-25T13:10:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=92641"},"modified":"2025-12-25T13:15:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-25T10:15:13","slug":"nvidia-acquires-groqs-ai-chip-assets-for-20-billion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/nvidia-acquires-groqs-ai-chip-assets-for-20-billion\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia Acquires Groq&#8217;s AI Chip Assets for $20 Billion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has acquired the assets of Groq, a developer of high-performance AI accelerator chips, for $20 billion. This was reported by Disruptive CEO Alex Davis, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2025\/12\/24\/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html\">CNBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>His firm has invested over $500 million in the startup since its inception in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Three months ago, Groq raised $750 million at a valuation of $6.9 billion. The round included participation from Blackrock, Neuberger Berman, Samsung, Cisco, Altimeter, and 1789 Capital, associated with Donald Trump Jr.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe have entered into a <span data-descr=\"an agreement where the rights holder allows use of the object but does not grant exclusive rights to one party\" class=\"old_tooltip\">non-exclusive licensing agreement<\/span> with Nvidia for the use of our <span data-descr=\"the process of generating an output after training an AI model\" class=\"old_tooltip\">inference<\/span> technology. It reflects the companies&#8217; shared focus on expanding access to high-performance, low-cost inference execution,\u201d states a <a href=\"https:\/\/groq.com\/newsroom\/groq-and-nvidia-enter-non-exclusive-inference-technology-licensing-agreement-to-accelerate-ai-inference-at-global-scale\">blog post<\/a> by Groq.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As part of the agreement, company founder Jonathan Ross, President Sunny Madra, and other team members will join Nvidia. There, they will focus on developing and scaling the licensed technologies.<\/p>\n<p>Groq will continue to operate as an independent company with Simon Edwards as CEO.<\/p>\n<p>The financial details of the agreement have not been disclosed. However, according to Davis, Nvidia acquired all of the startup&#8217;s assets except for its nascent cloud business.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cGroqCloud will continue to operate without interruption,\u201d noted Groq representatives in the blog.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The deal marks Nvidia&#8217;s largest acquisition in its history. In 2019, it acquired chip developer Mellanox for nearly $7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Company CEO Jensen Huang stated that the agreement will enhance the corporation&#8217;s capabilities.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cWe plan to integrate Groq&#8217;s low-latency processors into the NVIDIA AI Factory architecture, expanding the platform to serve an even broader range of AI tasks and real-time workloads,\u201d wrote the entrepreneur.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>He emphasized that this is not an acquisition of Groq as a company.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in December, as part of its expansion in the open-source sector, Nvidia <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/nvidia-unveils-open-ai-models-for-agents\">acquired<\/a> SchedMD and released the Nemotron 3 line of AI models.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia has acquired the assets of Groq, a developer of high-performance AI accelerator chips, for $20 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":92642,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"Nvidia acquires Groq's AI chip assets for $20 billion.","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[438,1294],"class_list":["post-92641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-nvidia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"253","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"Nvidia acquires Groq's AI chip assets for $20 billion.","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92641"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92643,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92641\/revisions\/92643"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}