Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called the collaboration "historic," saying it "tightly couples NVIDIA's AI and accelerated computing stack with Intel's CPUs and the vast x86 ecosystem-a fusion of two world-class platforms. The partnership marks a major boost for Intel, which has struggled to regain footing after years of market share losses to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. and AMD. "Intel's x86 architecture has been foundational to modern computing for decades - and we are innovating across our portfolio to enable the workloads of the future," he said. Nvidia will also provide Intel with custom RTX graphics chiplets to integrate into its PC processors, a move that could put Intel on equal footing with AMD's gaming-focused APUs. Nvidia stressed that it remains committed to its Arm-based Grace CPUs and other internal roadmaps, describing the Intel partnership as additive.