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Three patterns show up across NVIDIA's deal book — what the team buys, how it pays, and how it integrates. The patterns are the throughline; the deals below are the evidence.
9 acquisitions. Each entry carries the deal value, financing structure, target revenue, executive commentary, and the original SEC filing — the evidence behind the patterns above.
Mellanox is a pioneer of high-performance datacenter interconnect technology, best known for originating InfiniBand and for a high-speed Ethernet product line. Its interconnects were used in more than half of the world's fastest supercomputers and across many hyperscale datacenters at the time of the deal. NVIDIA acquired it by merger for $125.00 per share in cash. The two companies had a long prior history of collaboration in high-performance computing.
The emergence of AI and data science, as well as billions of simultaneous computer users, is fueling skyrocketing demand on the world's datacenters.Jensen Huang — Founder and CEO, NVIDIA
PortalPlayer supplied semiconductors, firmware and software for personal media players and secondary-display-enabled computers. NVIDIA acquired it by merger under an agreement dated November 6, 2006, with each share converted to $13.50 in cash. The deal was positioned to accelerate NVIDIA's handheld product strategy, building on its low-power graphics, TV and video technology already used in portable media devices.
Icera developed baseband processors for 3G and 4G cellular phones and tablets, holding more than 550 patents granted or pending and shipping soft-modem products approved by over 50 carriers worldwide. NVIDIA acquired it for $367 million in cash. The plan was to pair Icera's modems with NVIDIA's Tegra application processor so NVIDIA could offer both of the main processors inside a smartphone.
Cumulus Networks built open networking software, including the Cumulus Linux operating system for network switches plus analytics and management tooling, supporting more than 2,000 customers across roughly 130 hardware platforms. NVIDIA acquired it and placed it inside the networking business unit created by the Mellanox deal, pairing open network software with NVIDIA's switching hardware.
DeepMap was a startup building high-definition maps that let autonomous vehicles localize themselves with centimeter-level precision, using continuously updated maps drawn from vehicle sensor data. NVIDIA acquired the company to fold its mapping and localization technology into the NVIDIA DRIVE self-driving platform.
DeepMap is expected to extend our mapping products, help us scale worldwide map operations and expand our full self-driving expertise.Ali Kani — Vice President and General Manager, Automotive, NVIDIA
Bright Computing made software for provisioning and managing high-performance computing systems, with its Bright Cluster Manager used by more than 700 organizations. The software spans Arm and x86 CPUs, NVIDIA GPUs and Kubernetes containers, running at the edge, in datacenters and across hybrid clouds. NVIDIA acquired it to simplify HPC cluster deployment and management.
NVIDIA is changing the world as we know it, and we couldn't be more excited for our team and software to play a part in that.Bill Wagner — CEO, Bright Computing
Excelero, based in Tel Aviv, built high-performance software-defined block storage, including its NVMesh software that pools virtual arrays of NVMe flash for cloud environments and supports Kubernetes. NVIDIA acquired the company to add block-storage capability to its enterprise software stack for HPC and AI clusters.
The Excelero team is joining NVIDIA as demand is surging for high-performance computing and AI.Yaniv Romem — CEO and Co-founder, Excelero
Run:ai built a Kubernetes-based workload management and orchestration platform that lets enterprises pool and schedule GPU resources across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments to raise utilization. NVIDIA, a close collaborator with Run:ai since 2020, agreed to acquire the company to help customers run large, distributed AI compute more efficiently.
SchedMD is the company behind Slurm, the open-source workload manager that queues, schedules and allocates compute across HPC and AI clusters and runs on more than half of the top 100 supercomputers. NVIDIA acquired SchedMD while pledging to keep distributing Slurm as vendor-neutral, open-source software and to accelerate its development for next-generation HPC and AI.
We're thrilled to join forces with NVIDIA, as this acquisition is the ultimate validation of Slurm's critical role in the world's most demanding HPC and AI environments.Danny Auble — CEO, SchedMD