Summary
Nvidia invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek. MediaTek will adopt NVLink Fusion, giving customers a prevalidated route for custom XPUs to connect to Nvidia-powered rack-scale AI systems.
Why it matters
The deal shows Nvidia extending control beyond GPUs into the custom-silicon and interconnect layers of AI infrastructure.
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