{"id":213007,"date":"2025-12-24T22:03:16","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:03:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/nvidia-acquires-ai-chip-challenger-groq-for-20b-report-says-techcrunch\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:03:16","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T22:03:16","slug":"nvidia-acquires-ai-chip-challenger-groq-for-20b-report-says-techcrunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/24\/nvidia-acquires-ai-chip-challenger-groq-for-20b-report-says-techcrunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Nvidia acquires AI chip challenger Groq for $20B, report says | TechCrunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p id=\"speakable-summary\" class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nvidia is buying the AI chip startup Groq for $20 billion, according to a report from <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/amp\/2025\/12\/24\/nvidia-buying-ai-chip-startup-groq-for-about-20-billion-biggest-deal.html\" target=\"_blank\">CNBC<\/a>. The purchase is expected to be Nvidia\u2019s largest ever, and with Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As tech companies compete to grow their AI capabilities, they need computing power, and Nvidia\u2019s GPUs have emerged as the industry standard. But Groq has been working on a different type of chip called an LPU (language processing unit), which it <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2024\/08\/05\/ai-chip-startup-groq-lands-640m-to-challenge-nvidia\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has claimed can run LLMs<\/a> at 10 times faster and using one-tenth the energy. Groq\u2019s CEO Jonathan Ross is known for this sort of innovation \u2014 when he worked for Google, he helped invent the <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/29\/google-cloud-announces-the-5th-generation-of-its-custom-tpus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">TPU<\/a> (tensor processing unit), a custom AI accelerator chip.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In September, Groq <a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/08\/29\/google-cloud-announces-the-5th-generation-of-its-custom-tpus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">raised $750 million<\/a> at a $6.9 billion valuation. Its growth has been quick and significant \u2014 the company said that it powers the AI apps of more than 2 million developers, up from about 356,000 last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TechCrunch reached out to Nvidia for comment.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2025\/12\/24\/nvidia-acquires-ai-chip-challenger-groq-for-20b-report-says\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nvidia is buying the AI chip startup Groq for $20 billion, according to a report from CNBC. The purchase is expected to be Nvidia\u2019s largest ever, and with Groq on its side, Nvidia is poised to become even more dominant in chip manufacturing. As tech companies compete to grow their AI capabilities, they need computing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":213008,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tech"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}