[NVIDIA to Invest $3.5 Billion in Chipmaker MediaTek] Odaily Planet Daily News – NVIDIA and MediaTek are deepening their long-term collaboration with a $3.5 billion investment in MediaTek's convertible bonds, jointly building an AI edge-to-cloud computing platform. MediaTek will adopt the new NVIDIA NVLink Fusion platform to help customers bring custom XPUs to NVIDIA NVLink-connected rack-scale AI factories. NVIDIA and MediaTek will collaborate in three major areas: 1. **AI Infrastructure**: MediaTek will work with NVIDIA's NVLink Fusion ecosystem to help customers develop custom AI infrastructure designed for integration with NVIDIA's rack-scale systems and AI factories. 2. **Local AI Computing**: The two companies will continue to co-develop multiple generations of NVIDIA RTX Spark™ and DGX Spark™ PC chips, powering consumer PCs, AI development supercomputers, and enterprise workstations. These chips will integrate NVIDIA GPUs with MediaTek SoCs. 3. **Automotive**: MediaTek and NVIDIA will continue to develop AI-driven, software-defined vehicle platforms for the era of physical AI. (Source: Jin10)