Rumor: Nvidia Reportedly To Acquire Mellanox For $7B

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 03/11/2019 08:56 AM | source: | 17 comment(s)

And let me state, this is a very solid rumor. Nvidia would have purchased the American company Mellanox Technologies, the manufacturer of InfiniBand and Ethernet network equipment. Reportedly, Nvidia outbid Intel.

The purchase entails a massive $7 billion and will be the largest takeover ever for Nvidia. The rumor is based on findings from Reuters,. Nvidia and Mellanox likely are to announce the acquisition on Monday.

Mellanox Technologies is a company that makes adapters, switches, and chips for InfiniBand and Ethernet network devices. The company's products are used for supercomputers, data centers, enterprise servers and storage products. Data center revenue now accounts for a third of Nvidia’s sales.

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TheDeeGee
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#5648467 Posted on: 03/11/2019 09:06 AM

Selling overpriced tech works wonders.

sverek
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#5648468 Posted on: 03/11/2019 09:06 AM

Why would Novidia want it?

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#5648475 Posted on: 03/11/2019 09:30 AM

Gpu sales are down, their shares droped is it really smart to invest so much in network equipment?

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#5648481 Posted on: 03/11/2019 10:20 AM

Nvidia needs more products to offer not only gaming cards.
And if they buy Melanox - they gonna doing businesses with AMD

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#5648490 Posted on: 03/11/2019 10:55 AM

Will work with their pro cards , more control of the interconnect means they will be in a good positition for super computer type customers. Quite a shrewd move

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