NVDA - Proposed Nvidia Purchase And CXL Standard Point To Data Center Evolution
In case there were any remaining doubts about the future of computing in the data center, those doubts were removed yesterday thanks to two major announcements highlighting the role of connectivity across computing elements. In a word, it's heterogeneous.
The biggest news was the surprise announcement from Nvidia (NVDA) about its proposed $6.9 billion purchase of Israel-based Mellanox (MLNX), a company best known for making high-performance networking and interconnect chips and cards for servers and other data center components. In a deal that's largely seen as being complementary and financially accretive to Nvidia's revenues, the