Nvidia is making its largest acquisition to keep a critical market from Intel's clutches. And Oracle may have been inadvertently been the catalyst.
Chip maker Nvidia announced the largest acquisition in its history on Monday with its plan to buy Mellanox for $6.9 billion cash.
Mellanox makes what's known as InfiniBand technology. This is superfast networking technology used for connecting components inside today's biggest, faster"supercomputers," otherwise known as high performance computing . It is also used in the data centers that support supercomputers.
Artificial intelligence relies on machine learning which relies on big data. ML AI is where computers study massive numbers of examples of a concept in order to learn that concept.
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