Intel CEO promises partnership with Nvidia will produce "exciting new products"

[DragonSlayer101]

In brief: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has confirmed that the company is continuing its collaboration with Nvidia to develop "exciting new products." The two companies entered into a major strategic partnership last year, with plans to jointly develop SoCs featuring Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs.

The update came via Tan's latest post on X, in which he congratulated Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang on receiving an Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology from Carnegie Mellon University for his contributions to accelerated computing and AI. Huang chose to receive the award from Tan, who posted photos from the event showing him placing the doctoral hood on the Nvidia CEO.

– Lip-Bu Tan (@LipBuTan1) May 10, 2026

According to reports, Intel and Nvidia are jointly developing multiple products, including a custom SoC featuring a Xeon x86 CPU integrated with Nvidia's NVLink interconnect technology. The partnership would allow Intel to strengthen its Xeon platform with Nvidia's latest Blackwell and Rubin GPUs, while giving Nvidia access to Intel's well-established x86 ecosystem.

The two companies are also said to be working on another SoC lineup featuring an Intel x86 "Titan Lake" CPU combined with dedicated Nvidia RTX graphics tiles. Dubbed "Serpent Lake," the hybrid processor family will reportedly target the high-end laptop and mobile workstation market.

Based on early leaks, the co-developed chips will feature Intel's next-generation core architecture and support up to 16 channels of LPDDR6 memory. The reports also add that they will be manufactured using TSMC's N3P process node and are expected to directly challenge AMD's Strix Halo APUs.

Beyond the co-developed processors, the relationship between the two chipmakers could also expand into foundry and advanced packaging technology. Rumors suggest Nvidia is already evaluating Intel's 14A and 18A process nodes, as well as its EMIB advanced packaging technology for the Feynman I/O die, potentially breathing new life into Intel's struggling foundry business.

Intel and Nvidia announced their "historic" partnership last September, with plans to collaborate on a range of new products for both retail and enterprise markets. The tie-up also included a proposed $5 billion equity investment in Intel at around a 6% discount to market value. The investment has since received regulatory clearance from the SEC.

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Intel CEO promises partnership with Nvidia will produce "exciting new products"

 

[RudyBob]

Whenever I hear or read "exciting" I know NO thought has been given to the release and I tune out

 

[dangh]

Competition dies quietly

 

[Billybobjoey]

Very interested to see how the "Serpent Lake" project turns out. While Arc is pretty good, it's no secret that integrated graphics almost always suck. If turning that over to Nvidia can somehow magically change that, that could be a great selling point for intel.

 

[Anton Longshot]

"Exciting new products".
That means affordable PC parts right?

If it doesn't...then who are they planning to sell it to?
Rich people? Are those even interested in owning fancy hardware?

Sad times.
My beloved computer hobby's taken a back seat to other stuff I like.
Stuff I can actually afford.

 

[noel24]

Neither Intel, nor nVidia produced anything "exciting' in last few years. If something from them was interesting, or good, It was priced wrong. Why now would be different? Unless They mean "exciting for investors"?

 

[gamerk2]

nForce motherboards when?

 

[SRB]

Intel's only decent CPUs are respins of the last generation that they're selling at deep discount. I don't see them getting any more affordable when Nvidia gets involved.

My other question is how does Intel have all of this production capacity to sell to others if they're putting together wafer pieces because the can't build enough CPU's?

And the best part is they're still not turning a profit.

 

[Stoly]

Talk about long time in coming.

I recall reading rumors about nvidia licensing its gpu tech to intel and others like a decade ago.

 

[Stoly]

So ARC is dead, right?

 

[Stoly]

Neither Intel, nor nVidia produced anything "exciting' in last few years. If something from them was interesting, or good, It was priced wrong. Why now would be different? Unless They mean "exciting for investors"?

Yup, that's why nvidia only has less than 10% of GPU gaming market... no wait, that's AMD

 

[Hecate91]

I assume "exciting products" means things only exciting for shareholders, more AI hardware and nothing for the consumer market.

 

[Hecate91]

Yup, that's why nvidia only has less than 10% of GPU gaming market... no wait, that's AMD

Overpriced graphics cards with a melting prone power connector, and the apparent 90% of the market still buying it because of brand mindshare doesn't make their products exciting.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Are we about to watch another market AMD should have cornered ages ago go to iNtel? Heterogenous compute/ iGPUs/etc...

 

[Vixiy]

Eeeh no thanks. Xe is really good.

If they're targetting workstations then it's probably about apps that are optimized for CUDA

 

[wiyosaya]

I know. It must be space heaters.

 

[Stoly]

Overpriced graphics cards with a melting prone power connector, and the apparent 90% of the market still buying it because of brand mindshare doesn't make their products exciting.

multitrillion dollar most valuable company begs to differ.

 

[Rapob]

APUs with Intel CPU and Nvidia RTX GPU, sounds like a good solution when Intel can't make good GPUs themselves.

XeSS is so bad compared to DLSS 4 and FSR 4.

 

[Hecate91]

multitrillion dollar most valuable company begs to differ.

Multi trillion dollar company because they're the center of a circular investment AI bubble.

 

[OortCloud]

Grim news.

 

[ZedRM]

Call it a hunch, but this seems bad to me..