Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property. While it’s not the company itself, Nvidia will absorb key members of its engineering team, including its ex- data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google” data-auto-tag-linker=”true” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/tag/google”>Google engineer founder, Jonathan Ross, and Groq president Sunny Madra, marking the company’s largest AI-related transaction data-analytics-id=”inline-link” href=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mellanox-technologies-absorbed-and-rebranded-as-nvidia-networking” data-mrf-recirculation=”inline-link” data-before-rewrite-localise=”https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mellanox-technologies-absorbed-and-rebranded-as-nvidia-networking”>since the Mellanox acquisition.
Nvidia’s purchase of Groq’s LPU IP focuses not on training — the space Nvidia already dominates — but inference, the computational process that turns…
