Nvidia and MediaTek this week announced a major expansion of their partnership under which Nvidia is investing $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek, while the latter adopts NVLink Fusion platform for its custom AI accelerators, local AI systems, and automotive platforms. On the one hand, MediaTek's adoption of NVLink Fusion enables it to design accelerators for Nvidia's fully developed rack-scale platforms. On the other hand, Nvidia gets a slice of the growing market of custom AI accelerators.
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