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Intel Misses Out on a Multi-Trillion Dollar Acquisition of Nvidia

In 2005, Intel CEO Paul Otellini surprised the company's board of directors with an unexpected proposal. According to a report published in the New York Times, Otellini suggested Intel acquire Nvidia, which was valued at around $20 billion at the time (Nvidia is currently valued at approximately $3 trillion).

Some Intel executives believed at the time that Nvidia's designs would play a significant role in data centers in the future. While this vision has become a reality today with the rise of artificial intelligence, the board of directors rejected the idea. The reason? The acquisition price was so enormous that it would have been the most expensive in the company's history. Consequently, Otellini abandoned the idea, and the matter ended there.

The "Larabee" Project

Instead of acquiring Nvidia, Intel pursued the "Larabee" project to develop its own graphics cards. However, as we all know now, this project was quickly abandoned.

Later, Intel tried to benefit from the surge of artificial intelligence by acquiring several companies, but none reached the success level achieved by Nvidia. Today, the "green giant", under its CEO Jensen Huang, is one of the largest companies globally and undoubtedly the largest in the field of artificial intelligence, at least in terms of producing the necessary hardware for running this technology.

On the other hand, Intel's market value is nowhere near Nvidia's, valued at less than $100 billion. Many consider that Intel missed the artificial intelligence boat despite its significant contributions in neural processing units (NPU) and other areas.

It is worth noting that this is not the first time Intel has passed up a priceless opportunity to enter the field of artificial intelligence from its widest avenues. In 2017 and 2018, the company had the chance to buy a stake in OpenAI when it was still a small research organization. However, the CEO at the time, Bob Swan, stopped the deal, believing that AI models and the practical market were on separate tracks. No comment!