According to three people familiar with the matter, Nvidia plans to invest in D-matrix. This seven-year-old company develops AI server chips and is itself a competitor to Nvidia. The proposed investment is one of Nvidia's efforts to promote compatibility of its technology with competing chip designers and incorporate it into its dominant hardware ecosystem; although recently Nvidia has expanded its market share in front of almost all rivals. This is also the first time Nvidia has invested in an AI inference chip startup since reaching a $20 billion licensing agreement with Groq in December last year, indicating that Nvidia will not bet on just one such company. Three months ago, Nvidia said it was collaborating with D-matrix to make the chips from the two companies work together to handle different aspects of the same AI inference task to improve the efficiency of this type of calculation.

According to three people familiar with the matter, Nvidia plans to invest in D-matrix. This seven-year-old company develops AI server chips and is itself a competitor to Nvidia. The proposed investment is one of Nvidia's efforts to promote compatibility of its technology with competing chip designers and incorporate it into its dominant hardware ecosystem; although recently Nvidia has expanded its market share in front of almost all rivals. This is also the first time Nvidia has invested in an AI inference chip startup since reaching a $20 billion licensing agreement with Groq in December last year, indicating that Nvidia will not bet on just one such company. Three months ago, Nvidia said it was collaborating with D-matrix to make the chips from the two companies work together to handle different aspects of the same AI inference task to improve the efficiency of this type of calculation.