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Nvidia ( NVDA ) launches NVLink Fusion to speed connecting AI chips

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Desktop AI PCs for researchers will be ready in weeks, CEO

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MediaTek ( MDTTF ) and Marvell ( MRVL ) plan to adopted NVLink Fusion

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Spark production in paragraphs 1-7 and 14)

By Max A. Cherney and Wen-Yee Lee

TAIPEI, May 19 (Reuters) - Nvidia ( NVDA ) said on

Monday it plans to sell a technology to others that will tie

chips together in order to speed up the chip-to-chip

communication needed to build and deploy artificial intelligence

tools.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) launched a new version of its NVLink tech called

NVLink Fusion on Monday that it will sell to other chip

designers to help build powerful custom AI systems with multiple

chips linked together.

Marvell Technology ( MRVL ) and MediaTek ( MDTTF ) plan to adopt the

NVLink tech called Fusion for their custom chip efforts.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) developed NVLink years ago, and it's used to exchange

massive amounts of data between various chips, such as in the

company's GB200, which combines two Blackwell graphics

processing units with a Grace processor.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) CEO Jensen Huang made the announcement at the Taipei

Music Center, site of the Computex AI exhibition, which runs

from May 20 to 23.

His keynote speech discussed Nvidia's ( NVDA ) history of building AI

chips and systems and the software the company has built to

support it.

Huang remarked that at one point his presentations used to

spend 90% of their time on the company's graphics chips, but

that has changed.

Now, Nvidia ( NVDA ) has grown beyond its roots as a video game

graphics chip maker into the dominant producer of chips that

have powered the AI frenzy that has gripped the tech industry

since ChatGPT's launch in 2022.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) has been designing CPUs that would run Microsoft's ( MSFT )

Windows operating system and use technology from Arm

Holdings, Reuters has previously reported.

At Computex last year, Huang sparked "Jensanity" in Taiwan,

as the public and media breathlessly followed the CEO, who was

mobbed by attendees at the trade show.

During the company's annual developer conference in March,

Huang outlined how Nvidia ( NVDA ) would position itself to address the

shift in computing needs from building large AI models to

running applications based on them.

He unveiled several new generations of AI chips, including

the Blackwell Ultra, which will be available later this year.

The company's Rubin chips will be followed by Feynman

processors, which are set to arrive in 2028.

Nvidia ( NVDA ) also launched a desktop version of its AI chips,

called DGX Spark, targeting AI researchers. On Monday, Huang

said the computer was in full production and would be ready in a

"few weeks".

Computex, expected to have 1,400 exhibitors, will be the

first major gathering of computer and chip executives in Asia

since U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to impose sweeping

tariffs to push companies to increase production in the U.S.