Nvidia has reportedly paid out more than $900 million to hire the CEO of AI networking hardware company, Enfabrica. Rochan Sankar and a number of his colleagues at Enfabrica will become Nvidia staff members as part of the deal, and Nvidia will get the option to license the company’s hardware, data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1584492&xcust=tomshardware_us_9607728126937996871&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F09%2F18%2Fnvidia-spent-over-900-million-on-enfabrica-ceo-ai-startup-technology.html&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Ftech-industry%2Fnvidia-drops-a-cool-usd900-million-on-enfabrica-tech-and-hiring-its-ceo-report-claims-ai-networking-chip-company-boasts-capacity-to-connect-100-000-gpus-together” target=”_blank” data-url=”https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/nvidia-spent-over-900-million-on-enfabrica-ceo-ai-startup-technology.html” referrerpolicy=”no-referrer-when-downgrade” rel=”sponsored noopener” data-hl-processed=”skimlinks” data-placeholder-url=”https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=92X1584492&xcust=hawk-custom-tracking&xs=1&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cnbc.com%2F2025%2F09%2F18%2Fnvidia-spent-over-900-million-on-enfabrica-ceo-ai-startup-technology.html&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tomshardware.com%2Ftech-industry%2Fnvidia-drops-a-cool-usd900-million-on-enfabrica-tech-and-hiring-its-ceo-report-claims-ai-networking-chip-company-boasts-capacity-to-connect-100-000-gpus-together” data-google-interstitial=”false” data-merchant-name=”cnbc.com” data-merchant-network=”SkimLinks”>according to CNBC.
The deal will reportedly involve cash and stock options, and comes just two years after Nvidia invested part of a $125 million fund into Enfabrica. However, while the company was valued in the…
