Nvidia announces $5 billion investment in Intel, sending Intel soaring in premarket trading

Intel shares soared early Thursday after the company announced a partnership with Nvidia, which will buy $5 billion of Intel stock.

  • 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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