Nvidia, the world’s leading chipmaker, announced last Thursday that it’s investing $5 billion in Intel and will collaborate with the struggling semiconductor company. “The era of accelerated and AI computing has arrived.”For data centers, Intel will make custom chips that Nvidia will use in its AI infrastructure platforms. Intel fell even farther behind in recent years amid the AI boom that’s propelled Nvidia into the world’s most valuable company. The deal between Nvidia and Intel comes as China moves to be less dependent on U.S. semiconductor technology. Last week, Chinese officials reportedly forbade several large domestic technology companies from purchasing Nvidia chips, and China-based Huawei announced that it was expanding its development of AI chips and manufacturing.