2019
NVIDIA announced in March 2019 that it would acquire the networking company Mellanox for $7 billion in cash.
“In March of 2019, NVIDIA announced they were acquiring Mellanox for seven billion dollars in cash.”
Topic
Mellanox
5 facts from 5 episodes, in date order. These are what speakers said on the shows, each linked to the moment it was said. They aren't independently verified.
2020
Nvidia acquired the Israeli data center networking company Mellanox in 2020 for about $7 billion.
“in 2020, they acquire an Israeli data center compute company called Mellanox that I believe focuses on like a networking compute within the data center. Yep. For about $7 billion.”
2023
Huang says NVIDIA has about 3,200 employees on its Israel team from the Mellanox acquisition and calls the deal one of his best strategic decisions.
“We have some 3,200 people there now, and it was one of the best strategic decisions I'd ever made.”
Undated
Nvidia acquired Mellanox to change how computers are connected and work together for AI workloads.
“we bought a company called Mellanox so that we can change the way computers are connected and the way can computers can work together.”
Undated
Kevin Scott said NVIDIA has been Microsoft's compute and network partner since NVIDIA acquired Mellanox.
“NVIDIA's been, you know, our compute and network partner since they bought Mellanox”
Episodes
- 16 Oct 2023NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang1h 31m
- 6 Sep 2023Nvidia Part III: The Dawn of the AI Era (2022-2023)2h 55m
- 20 Apr 2022Nvidia Part II: The Machine Learning Company (2006-2022)2h 12m
- 12 Apr 2023Jensen Huang Founder and CEO of Nvidia47m
- 24 May 2023Going Full Send on AI, and the (Positive) Impact of AI on Jobs, with Kevin Scott, CTO of Microsoft54m