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NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced that an agreement has been made with Mellanox (NASDAQ:MLNX) where the company will acquire Mellanox for approximately $6.9 billion. NVIDIA agreed to acquire all Mellanox shares in cash for $125 per share. As quoted in the press release: “The emergence of AI and data science, as well as billions of simultaneous computer …
NVIDIA (NASDAQ:NVDA) announced that an agreement has been made with Mellanox (NASDAQ:MLNX) where the company will acquire Mellanox for approximately $6.9 billion. NVIDIA agreed to acquire all Mellanox shares in cash for $125 per share.
As quoted in the press release:
“The emergence of AI and data science, as well as billions of simultaneous computer users, is fueling skyrocketing demand on the world’s datacenters,” said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. “Addressing this demand will require holistic architectures that connect vast numbers of fast computing nodes over intelligent networking fabrics to form a giant datacenter-scale compute engine.
“We’re excited to unite NVIDIA’s accelerated computing platform with Mellanox’s world-renowned accelerated networking platform under one roof to create next-generation datacenter-scale computing solutions. I am particularly thrilled to work closely with the visionary leaders of Mellanox and their amazing people to invent the computers of tomorrow.”
“We share the same vision for accelerated computing as NVIDIA,” said Eyal Waldman, founder and CEO of Mellanox. “Combining our two companies comes as a natural extension of our longstanding partnership and is a great fit given our common performance-driven cultures. This combination will foster the creation of powerful technology and fantastic opportunities for our people.”
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