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NVIDIA’s new direction: intends to spend $7 billion to acquire server chip factory
- Date: 2019-10-01 Source: admin Views:
According to JPR statistics, the mining card market continued to collapse in the fourth quarter of 2018, resulting in a sharp decline in demand for the CPU hardware market. In this regard, it would be difficult for NVIDIA to continue to take a share of the CPU market. However, fortunately, NVIDIA's share of the graphics card market has reached a peak of 80%. In addition, it has been strengthening its data center business in recent years, so it is not that miserable.
In order to turn the tide in the server market, a contact revealed that NVIDIA has decided to spend US$7 billion to acquire Mellanox, an Israeli server chip manufacturer. This move will become NVIDIA's largest acquisition since its establishment in 1993. Intel also seems to be eyeing Mellanox. Since NVIDIA is closed on the weekend, the accuracy of the news cannot be confirmed for the time being.
Mellanox is a server chip manufacturer located in Israel. It was founded in 1999 and is about 6 years younger than NVIDIA. The company’s official website also provides simplified Chinese language, which is very good. According to the official website: “Mellanox Technologies (NASDAQ: MLNX) is a leading provider of end-to-end Ethernet and InfiniBand intelligent interconnect solutions and services for servers, storage and hyperconverged infrastructure. Mellanox intelligent interconnect solutions improve the data center by delivering the highest throughput and lowest latency. Efficiency, delivering faster data speeds to applications and unlocking system performance. Mellanox offers a variety of high-performance solutions: network and multi-core processors, network cards, switches, cables, software and silicon to accelerate application runtimes and maximize business results for a variety of markets, including high-performance computing, enterprise data centers, web 2.0, cloud, storage, cybersecurity, telecommunications and financial services”.
