Intel's CEO, Lip-Bu Tan, has congratulated NVIDIA's CEO, Jensen Huang, on his Honorary Doctorate in Science and Technology, while working together on "exciting new products".
Intel & NVIDIA's Journey Has Just Begun, & The World Will Soon See "Exciting New Product" Collabs Between The Tech Giants
Today, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang delivered a keynote at Carnegie Mellon’s 2026 Commencement and received an honorary Doctor of Science and Technology degree. Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan congratulated Jensen on this achievement and also announced that the two firms were working on new and exciting products.
Lip-Bu acknowledged Jensen's contributions to accelerated computing and artificial intelligence, and said that it was an honor to place upon him his doctoral hood earlier today.
This comes at a time when Intel and NVIDIA are deepening their relations in the field of semiconductors and technology. NVIDIA and Intel have already announced to work on various products, with NVIDIA investing $5 billion into Intel as part of a deal that will focus on both data center and consumer platforms.
As per earlier reports, Intel and NVIDIA will first of all work on a custom Xeon CPU for data centers with NVIDIA's NVLink integration, while on the consumer front, we will see the integration of NVIDIA's RTX IP (GPUs) on next-generation SoCs. The first of these SoCs will arrive in the form ot Serpent Lake, which can be around 2028-2029.
On the other hand, there's a bigger opportunity for Intel, one that has been hiding in plain sight. That's their Foundry Business. NVIDIA, which primarily relies on TSMC for its core data center chips, has been facing setbacks with CoWoS advanced packaging solutions. Furthermore, TSMC has been unable to meet the wafer orders demanded by NVIDIA as it is constrained by its production capabilities.
NVIDIA has been searching for another foundry where it could produce additional GPUs, and it looks like they have found one partner in the form of Intel. With Intel's Foundry business securing recent TeraFab and Apple deals, it looks like these will act as a major confidence booster for external customers such as NVIDIA to use Intel's Fabs to secure extra production of their latest and greatest chips.
Current chatter suggests that NVIDIA's next-gen Feynman GPUs will be harnessing Intel's EMIB advanced packaging solutions, and there are also reports that Intel's 18A-P or 14A can be used to make some GPUs, maybe entry-to-mid tier client products such as gaming GPUs. Only time will tell what is actually going to be made at Intel, but both NVIDIA and Chipzilla are getting closer, and we will soon hear some amazing announcements from both camps about their upcoming projects.
About the author: A Software Engineer by training and a PC enthusiast by passion, Hassan Mujtaba serves as Wccftech's Senior Editor for hardware section. With years of experience in the industry, he specializes in deep-dive technical analysis of next-generation CPU and GPU architectures, motherboards, and cooling solutions. His work involves not only breaking news on upcoming technologies but also extensive hands-on reviews and benchmarking.
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