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NVIDIA invests $3.5B in MediaTek via convertible bonds, decade-long roadmap to co-build custom XPU/AI factory silicon
“This is one of the largest partnerships we have... The roadmap we are executing on right now is not one or two years, it is a decade-long. So this partnership is extremely important to us and we wanted to make an investment into MediaTek.”
Why it matters
This is NVIDIA's biggest-ever non-US direct investment, formalizing a decade-long custom silicon and networking alliance. It positions MediaTek to capture the hyperscaler custom XPU design market, with NVIDIA networking (Spectrum-X, NVLink) attached whenever an XPU design wins.
Investment implication
Bullish for MediaTek as a credible first-party design partner for hyperscaler custom accelerators; also embeds NVIDIA networking into custom-silicon data center builds, defending NVIDIA content even where its GPU is displaced. Watch Broadcom's custom silicon franchise as competitive pressure builds.