Thursday, December 25, 2025

Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, biggest deal ever for Nvidia

Good or bad news! Just before Christmas so it will not get noticed as much? This is huge!

Was it a straight direct buy or a license agreement plus poaching the top employees?

"Key Points
  • Nvidia is making its largest purchase ever, acquiring assets from nine-year-old chip startup Groq for about $20 billion.
  • The company was founded by creators of Google’s tensor processing unit, or TPU, which competes with Nvidia for artificial intelligence workloads.
  • Groq, which was valued at $6.9 billion in a financing round in September, framed the deal as a “non-exclusive licensing agreement,” with its CEO and other senior leaders joining Nvidia.
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Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq for about $20 billion, biggest deal

Credits: Last Week in AI



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