Nvidia (NVDA) reached a deal to license AI chip startup Groq's (GROQ.PVT) technology. Globalt Investments senior portfolio manager Keith Buchanan and Yahoo Finance Senior Reporter Ines Ferré discuss the deal and what it means for Nvidia investors and the broader AI space.
While the markets were quiet for the post-Christmas trading session, NVIDIA NASDAQ: NVDA made a noise that will echo for years. The company announced a definitive agreement to pay approximately $20 billion in cash to license the technology and hire the core engineering team of AI chip startup Groq.
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Nvidia has yet to issue a public announcement or disclosure regarding its $20 billion Groq deal that CNBC was first to cover on Wednesday. Groq described the deal as a "non-exclusive licensing agreement," a tool that's been used by tech giants of late in part to avoid regulatory scrutiny.
Nvidia Corporation is acquiring Groq via a licensing agreement, targeting Groq's compiler expertise rather than just its AI chip speed. Groq's novel compiler and polyhedral scheduling could help NVDA solve critical scaling issues, potentially matching Alphabet's TPU cluster efficiency. Integrating Groq's software may reduce NVDA's control logic overhead, enhancing GPU utilization and defending margins against AMD and Alphabet.
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Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) is going up today, Friday, December 26, once again trading above $190 following a newly struck deal with Groq, an American artificial intelligence (AI) company. As the partnership is expected to boost the company's growth next year, analysts are already setting new Nvidia stock price targets for 2026.
An Nvidia spokesperson confirmed Friday (Dec. 26) that the company acquired talent and tech from Groq, a maker of custom-built inference chips. Groq said in a Wednesday (Dec. 24) blog post that it entered into a non-exclusive licensing agreement with chip maker Nvidia for Groq's inference technology.
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