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Rumor: Nvidia Reportedly To Acquire Mellanox For $7B
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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A new generation of graphics cards from Nvidia would become available in July, according to close-lipped sources from Tom's Hardware. The next-gen GPUs would be based on the Turing platform, but de...
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It's been silent with new graphics card releases from Nvidia. We've mentioned it a couple of times already, we really do not expect Volta with HBM2 to reach consumer grade graphics anytime soon. The...
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Over in the Asian countries there's quite a bit of speculation on the GeForce GTX 1050. Apparently there will be two models released, the regular 1050 with 2GB graphics memory yet also a 1050 Ti with...
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And to spice up that rumor, they might not release a GTX 1070M and GTX 1080M in the process. The manufacturer would use the GPUs of the desktop versions of the GTX 1070 and 1080, as it previously di...
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#5648468 Posted on: 03/11/2019 08:06 AM
Why would Novidia want it?
Why would Novidia want it?
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#5648475 Posted on: 03/11/2019 08:30 AM
Gpu sales are down, their shares droped is it really smart to invest so much in network equipment?
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 09:20 AM
Nvidia needs more products to offer not only gaming cards.
And if they buy Melanox - they gonna doing businesses with AMD
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 09:55 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
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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#5648510 Posted on: 03/11/2019 11:14 AM
Interconnect for super computers/machine learning/gpu server farms/etc. Unlike PC gaming they are markets Nvidia can grow in.
Why would Novidia want it?
Interconnect for super computers/machine learning/gpu server farms/etc. Unlike PC gaming they are markets Nvidia can grow in.
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#5648514 Posted on: 03/11/2019 11:24 AM
Maybe they should employ you to tell them what to invest in, rather than the highly qualified elite people they pay the big bucks each month.
Gpu sales are down, their shares droped is it really smart to invest so much in network equipment?
Maybe they should employ you to tell them what to invest in, rather than the highly qualified elite people they pay the big bucks each month.
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#5648527 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:04 PM
NVidia never focused on GPU only...
Remember that they were the maker on the best chipset for AMD 754 and 939 (a bit ironic isn't it), also the embedded processor and car equipement is a major point of the company.
About this rumor it is because despite what AMD try to do, for pro the choise is NVidia or NVidia, and as a major actor of the segment NVidia tried to offer even more to it's customer.
Gpu sales are down, their shares droped is it really smart to invest so much in network equipment?
NVidia never focused on GPU only...
Remember that they were the maker on the best chipset for AMD 754 and 939 (a bit ironic isn't it), also the embedded processor and car equipement is a major point of the company.
About this rumor it is because despite what AMD try to do, for pro the choise is NVidia or NVidia, and as a major actor of the segment NVidia tried to offer even more to it's customer.
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#5648529 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:10 PM
With everything being "cloudified", the Xbox one that loose the optical in few week, the next PS and Xbox that will focus on online and streaming game, the OSes that will end this way too...
Yes it could be a nice move to promote their equipement as a whole package.
Again it is still rumor
Gpu sales are down, their shares droped is it really smart to invest so much in network equipment?
With everything being "cloudified", the Xbox one that loose the optical in few week, the next PS and Xbox that will focus on online and streaming game, the OSes that will end this way too...
Yes it could be a nice move to promote their equipement as a whole package.
Again it is still rumor
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#5648530 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:19 PM
Nah i was just wondering but you on the other hand perfect for the job.
Maybe they should employ you to tell them what to invest in, rather than the highly qualified elite people they pay the big bucks each month.
Nah i was just wondering but you on the other hand perfect for the job.
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#5648538 Posted on: 03/11/2019 12:33 PM
I't Official now- NV acquires Mellanox! ;-).
I't Official now- NV acquires Mellanox! ;-).
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#5648550 Posted on: 03/11/2019 01:12 PM
Mellanox Is an Israeli company, not an American company.
Mellanox Is an Israeli company, not an American company.
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#5648568 Posted on: 03/11/2019 02:30 PM
Why would Novidia want it?
NVidia never focused on GPU only...
Remember that they were the maker on the best chipset for AMD 754 and 939 (a bit ironic isn't it), also the embedded processor and car equipement is a major point of the company.
About this rumor it is because despite what AMD try to do, for pro the choise is NVidia or NVidia, and as a major actor of the segment NVidia tried to offer even more to it's customer.
Anyone remembers that Nvidia had their own NIC embedded in the platform as @rl66 mentioned??
More so, more hardware offerings in the server arena is a sure investment.
Why would Novidia want it?
NVidia never focused on GPU only...
Remember that they were the maker on the best chipset for AMD 754 and 939 (a bit ironic isn't it), also the embedded processor and car equipement is a major point of the company.
About this rumor it is because despite what AMD try to do, for pro the choise is NVidia or NVidia, and as a major actor of the segment NVidia tried to offer even more to it's customer.
Anyone remembers that Nvidia had their own NIC embedded in the platform as @rl66 mentioned??
More so, more hardware offerings in the server arena is a sure investment.
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#5648580 Posted on: 03/11/2019 02:56 PM
not a rumor anymore:
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and YOKNEAM, Israel, March 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox. Pursuant to the agreement, NVIDIA will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion. Once complete, the combination is expected to be immediately accretive to NVIDIA’s non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP earnings per share and free cash flow.
The acquisition will unite two of the world’s leading companies in high performance computing (HPC). Together, NVIDIA’s computing platform and Mellanox’s interconnects power over 250 of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers and have as customers every major cloud service provider and computer maker.
not a rumor anymore:
SANTA CLARA, Calif., and YOKNEAM, Israel, March 11, 2019 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- NVIDIA and Mellanox today announced that the companies have reached a definitive agreement under which NVIDIA will acquire Mellanox. Pursuant to the agreement, NVIDIA will acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Mellanox for $125 per share in cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $6.9 billion. Once complete, the combination is expected to be immediately accretive to NVIDIA’s non-GAAP gross margin, non-GAAP earnings per share and free cash flow.
The acquisition will unite two of the world’s leading companies in high performance computing (HPC). Together, NVIDIA’s computing platform and Mellanox’s interconnects power over 250 of the world’s TOP500 supercomputers and have as customers every major cloud service provider and computer maker.
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#5648592 Posted on: 03/11/2019 03:18 PM
and for anybody discussing further, head here: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidia-to-acquire-mellanox-technology-for-6-9-billion.425689/
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