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December 25, 2025

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record

Nvidia is making its largest purchase ever, acquiring assets from nine-year-old chip startup Groq for about $20 billion.

Exclusive: Nvidia buying AI chip startup Groq's assets for about $20 billion in its largest deal on record

TL;DR

  • Nvidia is buying assets from AI chip designer Groq for $20 billion in cash.
  • The deal aims to integrate Groq's low-latency processors into Nvidia's AI factory architecture for broader AI inference and real-time workloads.
  • Groq will continue as an independent company, but its founder, CEO, and president will join Nvidia.
  • Groq's cloud business is not part of the transaction.
  • This is Nvidia's largest purchase ever, surpassing the $7 billion acquisition of Mellanox in 2019.
  • Groq was founded in 2016 by former Google engineers, including Jonathan Ross, a creator of Google's tensor processing unit (TPU).

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