Way beyond graphics cards. Excerpt from article:
NVIDIA today announced the completion of its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., for a transaction value of $7 billion. The acquisition, initially announced on March 11, 2019, unites two of the world's leading companies in high performance and data center computing. Combining NVIDIA's leading computing expertise with Mellanox's high-performance networking technology, the move will enable customers to achieve higher performance, greater utilization of computing resources and lower operating costs.
"The expanding use of AI and data science is reshaping computing and data center architectures," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "With Mellanox, the new NVIDIA has end-to-end technologies from AI computing to networking, full-stack offerings from processors to software, and significant scale to advance next-generation data centers. Our combined expertise, supported by a rich ecosystem of partners, will meet the challenge of surging global demand for consumer internet services, and the application of AI and accelerated data science from cloud to edge to robotics.
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A little about Mellanox:
NVIDIA today announced the completion of its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies, Ltd., for a transaction value of $7 billion. The acquisition, initially announced on March 11, 2019, unites two of the world's leading companies in high performance and data center computing. Combining NVIDIA's leading computing expertise with Mellanox's high-performance networking technology, the move will enable customers to achieve higher performance, greater utilization of computing resources and lower operating costs.
"The expanding use of AI and data science is reshaping computing and data center architectures," said Jensen Huang, founder and CEO of NVIDIA. "With Mellanox, the new NVIDIA has end-to-end technologies from AI computing to networking, full-stack offerings from processors to software, and significant scale to advance next-generation data centers. Our combined expertise, supported by a rich ecosystem of partners, will meet the challenge of surging global demand for consumer internet services, and the application of AI and accelerated data science from cloud to edge to robotics.
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A little about Mellanox:
NVIDIA Networking Solutions
High speed ethernet interconnect solutions and services.
www.mellanox.com
