Nvidia has announced a $20 billion deal to acquire Groq’s intellectual property. While it’s not the company itself, Nvidia will absorb key members of its engineering team, including its ex-Google engineer founder, Jonathan Ross, and Groq president Sunny Madra, marking the company’s largest AI-related transaction since the Mellanox acquisition.
Nvidia’s purchase of Groq’s LPU IP focuses not on training — the space Nvidia already dominates — but inference, the computational process that turns…