How Nvidia’s deal with Intel has been decades in the making — Years of rivalry culminated in an unexpected alliance

Nvidia and Intel are working on something few thought possible: A partnership so deep it could redraw the boundaries of the x86 ecosystem. Their new joint effort will see Nvidia RTX GPU chiplets integrated with Intel CPUs in a single package, using Intel’s Foveros and EMIB (Embedded Multi-Die Interconnect Bridge) technologies.

These RTX SoCs are meant to target premium laptops, desktops, and AI PCs. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang called them “a new class of integrated graphics laptops that the world has never…