NVIDIA and MediaTek announced a deepening of their collaboration to build AI computing platforms spanning AI infrastructure, local AI computing and automotive.
As part of the expanded collaboration, MediaTek will adopt the NVIDIA NVLink Fusion platform to provide hyperscalers, cloud service providers and frontier model developers with a prevalidated path to develop custom XPUs and bring them into NVIDIA NVLink connected, rack-scale AI factories.
NVIDIA has also invested $3.5 billion in convertible bonds issued by MediaTek.
NVIDIA and MediaTek are collaborating in three major areas:
AI infrastructure: MediaTek will work with NVIDIA’s NVLink Fusion ecosystem to enable customers to develop custom AI infrastructure designed to integrate with NVIDIA rack-scale systems and AI factories.
Local AI computing: The companies will continue to collaborate on multiple generations of RTX Spark and DGX Spark PC chips, powering consumer PCs, AI developer supercomputers and enterprise class workstations, that integrate NVIDIA GPUs with MediaTek SoCs.
Automotive: MediaTek and NVIDIA will continue developing platforms for AI-powered, software-defined vehicles in the era of physical AI.
Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA, said: “AI is transforming every computing platform from the world’s largest AI factories to the PC and the car. MediaTek is one of the world’s great semiconductor companies, with exceptional expertise in system-on-chip design, connectivity, leading performance and power efficiency. Together, we’re building platforms that bring NVIDIA accelerated computing to new markets and give customers the freedom to create differentiated AI systems at enormous scale.”
Rick Tsai, vice chairman and CEO of MediaTek, said: “MediaTek and NVIDIA share a vision for making advanced AI computing pervasive across the technology landscape. NVIDIA’s investment strengthens a collaboration that spans cloud AI infrastructure, local AI computing and automotive in the era of physical AI. By combining NVIDIA’s leadership in accelerated computing and AI software ecosystem with MediaTek’s expertise in a diverse AI technology portfolio from edge to cloud, and our leadership position in custom silicon, we can accelerate innovation for our customers.”
MediaTek will offer the NVLink Fusion platform as a design foundation for customers developing custom AI accelerators. The NVLink Fusion platform provides a prebuilt, prequalified and system-prevalidated foundation for multi-die XPU development.
The NVLink Fusion platform includes:
- NVIDIA NVLink Fusion Chiplet, connecting XPUs to the NVIDIA NVLink scale-up fabric using NVIDIA Photonics or electrical interconnects.
- NVIDIA NVLink-C2C, providing high-bandwidth, energy-efficient connectivity between XPUs, NVIDIA Rosa CPUs and other compatible processors.
- NVIDIA NVHBM, integrating customized memory capabilities to increase bandwidth and energy efficiency while dedicating more silicon area to compute.
Customers can bring their XPU designs to MediaTek and tailor connectivity, memory, packaging, performance and power characteristics to their workloads and infrastructure requirements. MediaTek is part of the broader NVIDIA NVLink Fusion ecosystem, which enables connection of custom XPUs to NVIDIA’s AI infrastructure. Partners can leverage NVIDIA’s scale-up and scale-out technology stack and ecosystem, as well as the MGX rack-scale architecture.
MediaTek collaborated with NVIDIA on the GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip that powers NVIDIA DGX Spark, which combines an NVIDIA Blackwell GPU and Grace CPU connected by NVLink-C2C. The companies have extended their collaboration with NVIDIA RTX Spark for consumer PCs.
MediaTek Dimensity Auto platforms integrate NVIDIA technologies for intelligent vehicle cockpits and can work alongside NVIDIA DRIVE AGX. The companies continue to build on this foundation across future generations.
