- Intel stock soared 29% in Thursday's premarket on news of a partnership with Nvidia.
- Nvidia committed to invest $5 billion in Intel stock as part of the collaboration.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang hailed the deal as a "fusion of two world-class platforms."
Intel's shares surged 29% in premarket trading on Thursday after Nvidia said it would buy $5 billion of its common stock as part of a partnership between the chipmakers.
"This historic collaboration tightly couples Nvidia's AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel's CPUs and the vast x86 ecosystem — a fusion of two world-class platforms," Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said in a statement announcing the collaboration.
Nvidia shares were up 3% ahead of the market open.
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