Nvidia is getting bigger.
Late last year, the tech giant swallowed chip startup Groq in a complex $20 billion deal. It was not an acquisition, a pesky formality that includes regulatory oversight, but rather a near-total hiring of staff and licensing of technology.
This feature originally appeared in the AI Hardware supplement. Read it for free today.
“It was really quick,” Nvidia’s VP and GM of hyperscale and HPC Ian Buck tells DCD of the deal, announced on Christmas Eve 2025. Groq CEO Jonathan Ross “got his Nvidia laptop on Christmas Day; I did a kickoff meeting on the 27th, and it's been amazing since then.”
The Nvidia Groq 3 LPU – Sebastian Moss
