Can Intel’s Investment-Driven Strategy Regain Its Competitive Edge? – December 30, 2025
Key Takeaways
- Intel closed a $5B private placement with NVIDIA, selling about 215M shares at $23.28 after FTC approval.
- The deal gives NVDA roughly a 4% stake and supports joint AI systems using Intel CPUs with NVIDIA GPUs.
- INTC is also backed by U.S. funding and SoftBank, strengthening its balance sheet for fabs and AI R&D.
Intel Corporation ((INTC – Free Report) ) has completed a previously announced $5 billion investment from NVIDIA Corporation ((NVDA – Free Report) ), under which the latter purchased around 214.7 million shares of the former at $23.28 per share. Earlier in December, this transaction received U.S….




