NVIDIA has invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek as the two companies expand their collaboration across AI infrastructure, local AI computing, and automotive.
Custom AI infrastructure: NVLink Fusion Platform
MediaTek will adopt NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion platform as the design foundation for customers building custom XPUs. NVLink Fusion gives hyperscalers, cloud service providers, and frontier model developers a pre-validated path to custom accelerators that connect into NVIDIA NVLink rack-scale AI factories.
The NVLink Fusion platform brings together the technology surrounding a custom XPU, including:
- NVIDIA NVLink Fusion chiplet: connects XPUs to the NVIDIA NVLink scale-up fabric over NVIDIA photonics or electrical interconnects.
- NVIDIA NVLink-C2C: provides high-bandwidth, energy-efficient connectivity between XPUs, NVIDIA Rosa CPUs, and other compatible processors.
- NVIDIA NVHBM: integrates customized memory to raise bandwidth and energy efficiency while dedicating more silicon area to compute.
Customers can bring XPU designs to MediaTek and tailor connectivity, memory, packaging, performance, and power to their workloads. The NVLink Fusion ecosystem also includes NVIDIA’s MGX rack-scale architecture.
Local AI computing: RTX Spark and DGX Spark Chips
NVIDIA and MediaTek will continue building multiple generations of NVIDIA RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chips for consumer PCs, AI developer supercomputers, and enterprise workstations. The chips integrate NVIDIA GPUs with MediaTek SoCs. MediaTek previously collaborated on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip that powers NVIDIA DGX Spark, which pairs an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU with a Grace CPU connected by NVLink-C2C.
Automotive: AI and RTX Graphics for Software-Defined Vehicles
NVIDIA and MediaTek are developing platforms for AI-powered, software-defined vehicles. MediaTek Dimensity Auto platforms integrate NVIDIA technologies for AI and NVIDIA RTX graphics in vehicle cockpits and can work alongside NVIDIA DRIVE AGX.
“AI is transforming every computing platform – from the world’s largest AI factories to the PC and the car,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “MediaTek is one of the world’s great semiconductor companies, with exceptional expertise in system-on-chip design, connectivity, leading performance and power efficiency. Together, we’re building platforms that bring NVIDIA accelerated computing to new markets and give customers the freedom to create differentiated AI systems at enormous scale.”
“MediaTek and NVIDIA share a vision for making advanced AI computing pervasive across the technology landscape,” said Rick Tsai, vice chairman and CEO of MediaTek. “NVIDIA’s investment strengthens a collaboration that spans cloud AI infrastructure, local AI computing and automotive in the era of physical AI. By combining NVIDIA’s leadership in accelerated computing and AI software ecosystem with MediaTek’s expertise in a diverse AI technology portfolio from edge to cloud, and our leadership position in custom silicon, we can accelerate innovation for our customers.”
Source: NVIDIA
About NVIDIA
NVIDIA, founded in 1993 and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, designs and manufactures graphics processing units, systems on chips, networking hardware, and AI intelligence software such as CUDA. Its products serve industries including gaming, data centers, autonomous vehicles, professional visualization, robotics, health care, and energy. The company introduced the GPU in 1999 and later expanded into accelerated computing and AI infrastructure. In gaming, its GPUs support high-performance rendering, while in AI and high-performance computing, its systems provide the infrastructure for training and deploying large-scale models. NVIDIA also develops tools for robotics and autonomous driving.
About MediaTek
MediaTek designs fabless semiconductor products for mobile, consumer, networking, automotive and computing devices. Founded in 1997, the company is headquartered in Hsinchu City, Taiwan. It develops system-on-chip products for smartphones, tablets, smart televisions, home devices and Chromebooks. Its portfolio includes chips for Wi-Fi, 5G, broadband, Internet of Things and automotive systems. MediaTek supplies custom data-center ASICs and processors for personal computing and AI workloads. Its customers include device makers, network equipment vendors, automotive manufacturers, cloud providers and consumer-electronics brands. The company’s technology supports cameras, displays, gaming, wireless connectivity and on-device AI functions. MediaTek operates offices in Asia, North America and Europe. MediaTek chips power more than 2 billion devices annually.
