Nvidia finalized a $5B Intel stake after FTC approval, buying 214.7M shares. The move bolsters Intel’s foundry push as 18A ramps.

There were no fewer than three major keynotes, with Nvidia, Intel, and AMD each taking the stage to share insights into what they're delivering for 2026 and beyond. New Nvidia GPUs are a no-show, DLSS 4.

Regulatory filings confirm that Nvidia has acquired roughly 215 million Intel shares at a fixed price of $23.28 per share, a transaction approved by the Federal

Nvidia has purchased Intel shares worth $5 billion, the American semiconductor firm said in a filing on Monday, carrying out a transaction announced in September.

Intel hasn't demonstrated that it's backing away from its quest to carve out some of the gaming GPU market share, despite Nvidia's dominance. And with CES underway, Intel will soon have an excellent opportunity to drum up excitement about the Arc B770.

Nvidia Corp. today disclosed that it has purchased $5 billion worth of Intel Corp. shares through a private placement.

RedGamingtech describes Serpent Lake as an "APU monster" similar in remit to AMD's Strix Halo chip. It's said to sport Nvidia's next-gen Rubin GPU technology built on TSMC N3P silicon, while CPU tech from Intel's upcoming Titan Lake generation, more on which in a moment. Oh, and it's all supported by LPDDR6 memory.

Intel's new Core Ultra Series 3 'Panther Lake' CPUs feature an upgraded Arc B390 GPU: RTX 4050 perf, 82% faster than the AMD Radeon 890M.

Nvidia said the new transformer model has five times the compute behind it compared to the original transformer model introduced in 2025. DLSS was already good enough; it was hard to spot a difference between native and non-native images,

Samsung has unveiled its latest Galaxy Book 6 series, with Intel's Panther Lake and an Ultra model with support for NVIDIA RTX 50 GPUs.