Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek to expand AI-infrastructure ecosystem

On August 31 2026, Nvidia announced a $3.5 billion purchase of convertible bonds issued by Taiwanese chip designer MediaTek. The deal adds MediaTek as a design partner for Nvidia’s NVLink Fusion platform, enabling customers to create custom AI accelerators (XPUs) that plug directly into Nvidia-connected, rack-scale data-center systems. The collaboration also continues joint work on Nvidia RTX Spark, DGX Spark PC chips and AI-powered automotive platforms.

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Major cloud providers—including Amazon, Google, Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic—are building their own AI silicon to reduce reliance on Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia has responded by opening its rack-scale AI infrastructure to third-party accelerators through NVLink Fusion, a pre-validated interconnect ecosystem. Earlier this year Nvidia announced a similar partnership with AWS and, on March 31, invested $2 billion in Marvell to support custom XPUs and NVLink-compatible networking. Analysts cite “heterogeneity” as the future of AI, with custom silicon coexisting alongside Nvidia GPUs.

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• Investment: $3.5 billion in MediaTek convertible bonds (Aug 31 2026).

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek to deepen NVLink AI partnership

• Revenue outlook: MediaTek expects its custom data-center ASIC business to generate $2 billion in 2026.

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• Nvidia financials: Fiscal Q2 revenue of $96.2 billion, with data-center revenue up 117 % to $89 billion.

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• Market context: Nvidia forecasts Q3 sales of about $108 billion (TheMinerMag, quarter ended July 26).

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MediaTek’s vice-chairman and CEO, Rick Tsai, said the investment strengthens a collaboration that spans cloud AI infrastructure, local computing and automotive, emphasizing a shared vision for pervasive AI computing.

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By tying MediaTek’s system-on-chip expertise to NVLink Fusion, Nvidia secures a pathway for custom accelerators to remain compatible with its rack-scale stack, even as hyperscalers develop in-house silicon. The arrangement reduces development complexity for customers, who can rely on Nvidia-validated interconnect, memory and packaging technologies while differentiating the compute core of their XPUs. Extending the partnership into RTX Spark, DGX Spark and automotive platforms broadens Nvidia’s reach beyond data centers into edge and consumer markets.

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The announcement did not disclose key terms of the convertible bonds—interest rate, maturity date, conversion price or any potential equity stake for Nvidia—preventing analysts from assessing dilution impact on MediaTek shareholders or the precise financial upside for Nvidia. Details on how the $3.5 billion will be allocated within MediaTek’s development programs were also omitted.

Nvidia invests $3.5 billion in MediaTek to deepen NVLink AI partnership

• “AI is transforming every computing platform — from the world’s largest AI factories to the PC and the car,” — Jensen Huang, Nvidia CEO

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These statements capture the strategic intent expressed by Nvidia’s leadership.

Nvidia to invest US$3.5 billion in chipmaker MediaTek